- Thread starter
- #21
georgechicken
In the Brooder
- Mar 9, 2017
- 21
- 3
- 16
Exciting news! This morning I was checking on the girls to see if they had been let out of their coop yet before I left for my work. They had been put in by 4:30 yesterday without the water bowl and I was planning on calling them to ask to let them out and remind them they hadn't had their water accessible By 9:30 it would have been 17 hrs. They often are kept in the coop with or without water/ food until early afternoon. Anyhoo, the owner was out and came over to me as I hung over the fence and said, "You want my birds, take 'em!" He went on to say he loved his birds but was tired of them. Or maybe me, or is accepting he truly doesn't have time and the employees who have been mostly doing the work also don't want to deal with them. Not exactly sure, hard to understand him sometimes. So I'm hoping to rescue them and bring them over the fence to my big buggy yard today! One issue, I have no coop, hay, food for them. I do have a roll of chicken wire from a failed attempt at a garden deer-proofing effort, So I can use it in some capacity. He offered me to buy his coop for $100. Not bad, except I'm on such a limited income (shoulder injury/disability/very thin paycheck) that the couple hundred it will take to get them started is a budget-breaker. So I've put out the call to a couple chicken friends, hoping to find an abandoned coop. I could also just bring them to a rescue farm as well. But then they'll have the added expense too. However way it works out I want to get them today before he has time to change his mind. I'm super happy to have the opportunity to help these girls have more normal lives.
The neighbor said he still has another chicken. I saw it a couple times but he keeps this one away from the other 3 in his garage. Weird. He doesn't want to give that one up. He said to me he doesn't want me bothering him about the one chicken in his garage. I said to him it needs to go outside too. He shaked his head... I didn't push it. I'll get these 3 and see about the other one lonely by itself in the garage later.
Anyone know where I might find a coop/leftover hay or feed etc. I'd sure appreciate the heads up. I'm in Santa Rosa, CA and depending on where it is could pick it up.
The neighbor said he still has another chicken. I saw it a couple times but he keeps this one away from the other 3 in his garage. Weird. He doesn't want to give that one up. He said to me he doesn't want me bothering him about the one chicken in his garage. I said to him it needs to go outside too. He shaked his head... I didn't push it. I'll get these 3 and see about the other one lonely by itself in the garage later.
Anyone know where I might find a coop/leftover hay or feed etc. I'd sure appreciate the heads up. I'm in Santa Rosa, CA and depending on where it is could pick it up.