Help! Someone dumped baby chicks in my yard!!

[al6517]

It may be as simple as they know you keep chickens and they cannot take care of them, they know you will be good to them and provide well for them. I am sure these folks are a little ashamed of themselfs. Still it was a little ghetto of them, good luck with them they are your baby's now.

AL

 

[hooksetz]

they look like game mixes to me, maybe EEs but wild chickens usally equals english/bantam mix games.

 

[poultrykeeper08]

i looked at the bigger pics on the link and one of them and it looks like the one i could see still had a little egg tooth on it meaning they are only a few days old . Any chance it was a wild game hen that got spooked and flew off and left the babies or maybe somthing got ahold of mom ?

To bad that other one couldnt be found !

 

[momofdrew]

I get so mad a people like that... I am sure if they had just simply asked you, you would have taken them in now one is probably dog food or fozen...My babies are 2 weeks and have little feathers on the wings longer than what your babies have...I'd guess about a week old...

 

[Peepshow]

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the people down the street have game hens/cocks and ee's. I found out tonight that they don't pen them or really care for them at all

Neighbor was telling me his mom , who lives across the street from him, feeds them and gets yelled at by the owners.

I'm thinking more and more that some of their immediate neighbors found the chickies in their bushes and dumped them in our yard, hoping they'd get taken care of

i feel so bad for the lost chickie, odds are it got dehydrated. the other 4 were fiercely thirsty

 

[Peepshow]

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sure, you may use it as a display pic

YAY lol thank you

Looks great!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Sheesh, I never cease to be surprised by the things our members experience.

My thought was that maybe someone ordered some chicks and ended up with some packing peanut roos and decided to just drop them off in your yard?

 

[Peepshow]

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I'm not thinking this is a likely scenario. When we mail ordered our chicks, the post office was freaking out. Apparently they dont often deal with live chicks. The town it's self has become very suburban though the outlaying areas are hobby farmish. From what I can tell, they mostly swap for chicks here.

my neighborhood is also pretty poor and mail ordering chicks can get pricey when you factor in shipping. No one here is keeping more then just a few. Our yard is one of the biggest at 1/4 an acre.

 

[cmom]

I agree with some of the other posts.

Nifty-Chicken wrote:
Sheesh, I never cease to be surprised by the things our members experience.

My thought was that maybe someone ordered some chicks and ended up with some packing peanut roos and decided to just drop them off in your yard?

I think they are EE's too and about a week old.​

 

[Peepshow]

they seem seriously distressed. they wont settle down and sleep. Just keep panicky cheeping. I dont think they will settle unless i turn off the light but I'm worried they will get too chilly. It's 77 in the house.