Rescuing chickens for meat

[Emmaroberts100101]

Hey there everyone,
First and foremost I am not in anyway supporting chickens for meat. I am strongly against it and that is why I want to rescue them. Anyways I made this thread to get advice from everyone. On Craigslist and other places, they sell chickens for meat. In order to rescue them I need to message them about certain details, but how can I tell them that I want to rescue as a pet and not for meat. I'm not sure if you can understand but basically how do I rescue the chickens that are being sold for as meat to become my pet?
Please let me know,

Thank you all!

 

[Pyxis]

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I think the chickens you are thinking of are probably the cornish cross type. You won't really be saving those if you take them in and try to keep them as pets. They are designed to grow enormous in a short amount of time. What that means is if they are not culled for meat by the time they are supposed to be (about six to eight weeks old generally) they will get so large that their own legs may break under their weight because they haven't grown proportionally to their weight and can't support them, and they will have heart issues and die of heart attacks. Now, with proper feed restriction, you may be able to get them to live about a year, but that's it really.

If you really want to rescue chickens slated for meat, you're better off trying to find 'spent hens' that are generally made into soup, or take in and keep a bachelor flock of extra roosters that would have been culled and eaten because they were not needed.

 

[Emmaroberts100101]

Hi there,
Thanks so much for responding to my post.
I don't think that the chickens that I want to rescue are the ones that you mentioned. But its so sad how the Cornish cross chickens live their lives
Where would I be able to find the 'spent hens' that you mentioned?
Thanks!

I think the chickens you are thinking of are probably the cornish cross type. You won't really be saving those if you take them in and try to keep them as pets. They are designed to grow enormous in a short amount of time. What that means is if they are not culled for meat by the time they are supposed to be (about six to eight weeks old generally) they will get so large that their own legs may break under their weight because they haven't grown proportionally to their weight and can't support them, and they will have heart issues and die of heart attacks. Now, with proper feed restriction, you may be able to get them to live about a year, but that's it really.

If you really want to rescue chickens slated for meat, you're better off trying to find 'spent hens' that are generally made into soup, or take in and keep a bachelor flock of extra roosters that would have been culled and eaten because they were not needed.[/QUOTE]
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[Pyxis]

Where would I be able to find the 'spent hens' that you mentioned?

A lot of battery egg farms will sell them off once they hit about two years old. If you have any near you, you can call them and ask if they sell spent hens and see if they will sell you a few. Or you could just keep your eyes peeled on Craigslist for people giving away older hens that no longer lay. They may call them soup hens as well.

 

[Emmaroberts100101]

Great! Thank you!

A lot of battery egg farms will sell them off once they hit about two years old. If you have any near you, you can call them and ask if they sell spent hens and see if they will sell you a few. Or you could just keep your eyes peeled on Craigslist for people giving away older hens that no longer lay. They may call them soup hens as well.[/QUOTE]