RESCUED MEAT HEN..1 month old, when can I put her out in main coop?

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

If you knowingly take something not yours, regardless of its purpose, it is stealing. Someone paid for this "rescue chick" and had a plan for it and now it has been taken from them. You can justify all you want but the main point is the same: this is a stolen bird.

 

[hipeatall]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

If you knowingly take something not yours, regardless of its purpose, it is stealing. Someone paid for this "rescue chick" and had a plan for it and now it has been taken from them. You can justify all you want but the main point is the same: this is a stolen bird.

agreed... if someone rescued some of my little dumplings... I'd be pretty upset.​

 

[gritsar]

For those that don't live in an area overrun with a commercial chicken houses (as we are) I can tell you what would happen if she took it back. It would be killed on the spot. It was out of the control of the commercial grower, albeit for only a short while. It's been exposed to other (non-commercial) birds. No commercial farmer is going to take a chance on putting that one bird back in the broiler houses.

Chickens fall off the trucks or escape, either going into the grower houses or coming out of them (on their way to be processed). The poultry industry considers those birds acceptable losses. That's not taking into account all the chicks that they cull at various points in the growing process. They do at least three culls during the 6 to 8 week period.

To the OP - I think she would be warm enough in a draft free coop, but your solution of putting her out during the day and bringing her in at night works too. Just make sure she gets plenty of time outside, moving around, during the day.

My rescued broiler (Cobb on Cobb) chicks, which are a different creature altogether than the cornish rocks, are now 23+ weeks old and every one of them is laying. They've done fine in a mixed flock with layer birds that they were raised with.

I started out with 19. The commercial farmer that gave them to me told me to just "pinch the head off" of any I didn't want to keep. That's how much the commercial industry as a whole cares about losing a few birds here and there.

 

[deerman]

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it wasn't one that fell off a truck, came from op neighbors barn at dayold. Should have been giving back when they found it.

What next ,oh find a calf that was going to be raised for meat....would that be ok to RESCUE.

 

[deerman]

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Your were given to you, sorry if they knew who it belong to, should have at least offer it back.



Oh if you want broody hens, get some game hens....100% of them go broody. I use them for peafowl eggs, everyone of mine go broody.

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

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it wasn't one that fell off a truck, came from op neighbors barn at dayold. Should have been giving back when they found it.

What next ,oh find a calf that was going to be raised for meat....would that be ok to RESCUE.

AMEN.

So far as the argument about how the real owners would kill it on the spot, it is THEIR CHICKEN SO THEY HAVE THAT CHOICE! Since when do we condone stealing?? The only way, IMO to justify this is if you approach the owner and offer to pay for the bird. They are not going to turn down the cost of the bird just so they can kill it on the spot if they are honestly obligated to kill it if it escapes..

By the way, I do live in an area with tons of commercial growers...and around here if you take something that belongs to them knowingly, you are prosecuted for theft. Just as you would be if you "rescued" someone's puppy because they were keeping it in a kennel all day and it happened to escape.

 

[birdicus7]

What the lawful owner does with their birds is totally their decision. They are raised for meat and that is their purpose. The proper thing to do would be let the owner know what happened and that you have HIS or HER bird. If they decide to allow you to keep it so be it. Right now you are a chicken THIEF. -Something most chicken owners are not too fond of.

 

[jjthink]

Sorry, but to suggest that someone should return a bird that fell off a commercial truck headed to slaughterhouse is beyond ludicrous. This was a rescue, it was not stealing.

If the commercial operation had any respect for the birds in the first place, they wouldn't let them fall off trucks and suffer the pain involved. They simply do not care about humane treatment and I say that any bird lucky enough to fall off and survive that trauma deserves a kind soul to care for it. (they all deserve that kindness but most never get the chance).

No one is under any obligation to mitigate for the company's bad practices by rounding up birds that crashed to the ground as they fell off the trucks and then returning them to their tormenters. If a company doesn't want birds falling off trucks and being lost they will devise a better system. It's not like a freak innocent accident - it happens all the time, the companies know it and yet they choose not to remedy.

JJ

 

[LindsayB]

okay. It really isn't that big of a deal. A chick wandered in her yard from a neighbor that raises commercial birds. I really don't think they are going to notice one bird missing out of 10,000......Its not like she went over to the barn and took it. Shes not a theif if the chick found her. Give it a break.

 

[Alabama ee]

You might want to call them and let them know the chick wandered in your yard. They probably will not want it back for biosecurity reasons. Ask them if they don't want it if you can keep it. That way it is really yours.