I found an add on craigslist for chickens and decided to get a pullet, so I drove out and met the man selling, only to find that the man had his chickens in a cramped, hot, dusty, and dirty box that smelled so rank that I almost gagged when I came in. The poor pathetic animals in the box were so pitiful that you almost couldn't tell that they were chickens! To make everything 10x worse, the man obviously didn't care about them at all, because he threw them to the ground when he was done with them and thought as them only as food. (At this point I was a mix of horrified and outraged
at the horrible treatment of these beautiful animals that God created, and the tender-hearted me was pushed over the edge by what happened next) Then the man picks up a bird roughly and starts to "Feel and see if the chicken has balls". I almost threw up. I got out of there as fast as I could with only one hen, ( I would have taken them all if I could have) but when I got home, I wasn't sure what to do to help the poor thing. When I put it outside, it didn't even know how to eat grass!!!!! I would like your input on how to help this chicken recuperate. Also, what should I do about introducing it to my other chickens? Will they pick on it extra because it hasn't been outside almost at all?