Show Off Your Rescue Chickens!

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I have two recused EEs from my careless neighbor that like to feed the local predators. First is Mutton Chops. One morning I was headed out the front door, and this hen comes flying up on the porch, straight at me, to the point I had to duck. There was a fox chasing her, and it made a quick retreat when it saw me. She sat on my porch swing for awhile, clearly in shock, and all I could think about was this poor little hen is going to be fox food if I don't keep her. So I picked her up and put her in a dog crate.
This is what she looked like when I saved her. He may have tackled her; she was pretty roughed up:
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This is what she looks like today. And oh boy is she a little sweetheart! I just love her to pieces:
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Just a few weeks after that incident, I had just come in from fox hunting one morning, sat down for a cup of coffee and in my security camera I see Mutton Chop's sister being chased by a fox. I ran down and got my gun, went out on the back deck and saw the fox carrying her off towards the woods. I shot, and he dropped her but quickly picked her up again. So I shot again, he dropped her a second time, and as he went back at her I started shooting rapid fire and he took off. I found her huddled up against a tree, in pretty bad shape. I got her back to the house and kept her in my utility room as I treated her wounds. She was missing half her tail and had feathers ripped out of her back, and two teeth marks where the fox was carrying her. This is what she looked like when I got her to the house:
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And this is her today. Her name - Lucky!
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Bless you for saving them!
They are so beautiful they hardly resemble how they looked when you rescued them.

 

[Trish1974]

I don't have any pictures, but my mom's first flock of chickens were battery hens (white leghorns) from a local egg farm. I was about 6 or 7 years old. I remember the guy who delivered them dumped them out on the coop floor, and they just laid there because they couldn't walk. I think it took a week or so for them to gain enough strength to walk. They spent several more years on our farm as free range hens.

 

[KikiLeigh02]

The lighting is terrible, but his sickle feathers are coming in so pretty now!

 

[CCUK]

Here are some photos of my ex battery hens. I got six in August last year. They are all 18 month's old here.

This is dinky. She had the worst feather loss. The first thing she did when I got them home a let them in the run was have a dust bath! It was heartbreaking to see but it also made me so happy to see that they could now start to behave like a normal chickens.

This is dinky now! Fully feathered and doing great! She is the most friendly from them and likes her hugs!

Some of the other girls.

So far I still have all six. They don't lay much anymore but the eggs aren't important. I just want to see them enjoy having a normal chicken life!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Here are some photos of my ex battery hens. I got six in August last year. They are all 18 month's old here.
View attachment 1551344 View attachment 1551346 This is dinky. She had the worst feather loss. The first thing she did when I got them home a let them in the run was have a dust bath! It was heartbreaking to see but it also made me so happy to see that they could now start to behave like a normal chickens.
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This is dinky now! Fully feathered and doing great! She is the most friendly from them and likes her hugs!
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Some of the other girls.View attachment 1551352 So far I still have all six. They don't lay much anymore but the eggs aren't important. I just want to see them enjoy having a normal chicken life!

What an amazing transformation!

 

[CCUK]

What an amazing transformation!

It took about three months for there feathers to grow back. But they started feather pecking for a while. A nasty habit from being in the cages. I managed to stop it. Now they are going through there first molt! But they are such lovely hens. They are so Friendly and inquisitive more so than any of my others.

 

[dan26552]

They’re not exactly ex battery hens but they are ex chicken house hens. They’re Cornish cross breeder hens. I was helping clean out a few houses and these had been left by the clean out crew, I got them 12 weeks after they'd cleaned out the houses so they’d already finished their molt.
When I got them they wouldn’t let you get within 30ft of them and now they follow me around like dogs.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

They’re not exactly ex battery hens but they are ex chicken house hens. They’re Cornish cross breeder hens. I was helping clean out a few houses and these had been left by the clean out crew, I got them 12 weeks after they'd cleaned out the houses so they’d already finished their molt.
When I got them they wouldn’t let you get within 30ft of them and now they follow me around like dogs.
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They’re beautiful!

 

[dan26552]

They’re beautiful!

That they are. They don’t lay well though.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

@dan26552 How are your ex Cornish Cross breeder hens doing?