Should I get rescue chickens from a battery farm or free range farm???

[krackowpolish]

if you have other healthy hens then you shouldn't just in case the new ones you get are sick, unless your fine with keeping the new ones in the house for a few days

. but i do love chickens and i see so many people rescue them and it makes me want to rescue one too!

 

[JohnPeel]

Thanks, I don't have chickens and have never kept them, I have just really wanted to. Chickens in the house, I dont think so, although we do get pill bugs and they could help keep them down.

 

[Smoochie]

If I was rescuing chickens I would pick up all the "come get my 2 year old spent hens for dog food and fish bait" adds I see on Craigslist weekly.

 

[JohnPeel]

That is awful, what a way to advertise chickens. I haven't seen any adds like that here in Wales, in fact, I don't think we have a Craigslist, I will check. I did try gumtree but there was no rescues there.

I would like some eggs out of them to you know, otherwise I would get a dog from the RSPC so its not put down. But I think the ladder in the coop would be too steep for a dog.

Honestly, if I could find an add here offering chickens for good home, I would have them. My sister phoned me last week and told me her pal had 12 ducks needing a good home, but we just aren't geared up for them so I had to decline, sadly.

If you know where we can get these spent dog food bait hens here, please let me know and we will go get them. Thanks

 

[JohnPeel]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/724522/wanted-free-chickens-for-good-home-in-north-wales-uk

I took your advise sort of Smoochie and I have put a thread out to see if there is anyone in my area that has chickens they dont want or cant keep. The link is above.

If we haven't heard anything by the first week in January, we will pic up the others from the egg farm, or we might do both anyway according to Chicken Math I have been told about.

 

[Smoochie]

That is awesome! If you lived in my area your coop would be full tomorrow. I love your set up... Your chickens are going to be living in luxury.

 

[JohnPeel]

Thanks Smoochie.