Poor flock has been plucked by too many roosters!

[Feath3rDust3r]

Last night I went to buy what I thought was going to be a rooster and 3 hens. I was expecting to see healthy 1.5 year old birds.... but I was SHOCKED!! These chickens were bare!! They have been living in a shed with 2 hens per rooster ..I think they had 15 roos and 30 hens originally! The shed wasn't very big and the run was a mud slop!

I couldn't leave the rest of the poor baldies to be raped so I bought ALL of the remaining 9 hens.

I have a coop that is comfortable for 5 but tight for 10...I can't let them out because my junior roosters free range and I don't know if I should separate the rooster from them and put him with the jr's because I want to make sure they don't pass on any nasty disease...what I do have though is a sand bath, clean shed with shavings and dry covered run.

I'm not sure what to do with these poor girls... there skin is so mud cakes and one of them has just a few mud caked feathers underneath... should I wash them or let them dust bath themselves clean?

I don't think saddles will help because these would need helmets and capes!!

If anyone can suggest any way that I can help these girls I'd appreciate it.

I'm not planning on keeping them all...I just want to get them a bit healthier and find them homes where they can have a happier life!!

 

[Feath3rDust3r]

 

[neo71665]

I normally keep to my own business but I would report them for animal cruelty.

 

[Feath3rDust3r]

This is the coop they're in...the brown one. It's not normally this wet...I took this after the derecho! I have also enclosed the back under the shed since this pic.

 

[Feath3rDust3r]

I normally keep to my own business but I would report them for animal cruelty.

I thought about it... he said he kept them for the eggs (to sell on EBay). But I decided against it because he's selling all his flocks so he can rebuild a better set up.

 

[FarmerKayy]

Oh no! Poor girls.. I do not know what you should do about washing them but I think in this case being in a small area temporarily is a better alternative than what they were in. At least they can heal. Thank you for helping them!

 

[neo71665]

I thought about it... he said he kept them for the eggs (to sell on EBay). But I decided against it because he's selling all his flocks so he can rebuild a better set up.

If he let those birds get like that I doubt he is gonna do anything. Anybody with any sense can look at those birds and tell they were over mated. He was only worried about getting and selling hatching eggs. He clearly didn't give a rats a** about the health of the birds. Bet his next setup is gonna be exactly the same and once the birds health starts going down he starts over again, and again, and again.

I'm a farmer and look at my birds as livestock instead of pets. No excuse for that condition.