Show Off Your Rescue Chickens!

[Brahma Chicken5000]

This thread is for those people who have rescued a chicken or multiple chickens. Whether you rescued battery hens, chickens that were living in bad conditions, neglected birds, or found them on the side of the road, I want to see them and hear how you rescued them.
I’ll start off. I have 3 rescue bantams. 2 pullets and 1 hen. They all came from a farm I worked at. The first rescue is Jane, a Frizzle bantam hen who was so overmated she looked like a battery hen. About a week later I rescued Charlotte, an Old English Game Bantam x Sebright mix pullet. Charlotte recently went broody and raised 6 chicks. Of the 6 4 were cockerels and rehomed. Lastly is Angelina a mixed Bantam pullet.
Jane a few days after being rescued

Jane now

Charlotte a few days after being rescued

Jane and Charlotte enjoying the sun together

Charlotte with her chicks

Charlotte now

Angelina on the day she was rescued

Angelina now

 

[roosterhavoc]

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

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She’s beautiful!
How did you come to rescue her?

 

[HuffleClaw]

Pretty rescues!

 

[KikiLeigh02]

My husband rescued this handsome rooster from someone he works with. Something killed their whole flock except for him and another rooster, so they were going to cull them. He was injured when we got him. We really thought he was missing an eye at first, but about a month after we got him he started opening it again! He has definitely rewarded us by being awesome, he's so good at keeping the peace. He has a really wonderful temperament, very well-mannered! He had a mini-molt a few months ago so his sickle feathers are still a little short.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

My husband rescued this handsome rooster from someone he works with. Something killed their whole flock except for him and another rooster, so they were going to cull them. He was injured when we got him. We really thought he was missing an eye at first, but about a month after we got him he started opening it again! He has definitely rewarded us by being awesome, he's so good at keeping the peace. He has a really wonderful temperament, very well-mannered! He had a mini-molt a few months ago so his sickle feathers are still a little short.

He’s beautiful!

 

[roosterhavoc]

She’s beautiful!
How did you come to rescue her?

I killed the opossum that tried to eat her at a day old.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Big Heifer:
Then...

Now...

Story~ I rescued her about 1 almost 2 years ago. She was being way over mated (literally 6 hens and 3 roosters). She was really skittish when I got her, she had now mellowed our and is a really wonderful hen.

 

[Chickassan]

This is Hobo, she was the sole survivor of a dog attack. When I got her she had a fish hook in her foot, worms and mites and had been eating scratch, french fries, and cat food. She beat up my top hen the first day I brought her home even though she wasn't even laying yet. She's become one of my favoriates.

Hobo now, and the first day here.

 

[BantyChooks]

Two Wyandotte roosters. I don't have them anymore. Someone dumped them off at a lake in December, and I picked them up. Dumb move, but hey, I was a new chicken keeper. They were well behaved, but infertile. I suspect now that they had worms and maybe even mites. I hadn't heard of quarantine, so I didn't do it.