This year I had the pleasure of personally rescuing and adopting 14 chickens and creating a flock of wonderful birds that I wish to share with you. I am not bragging or looking for praise I am only trying to pass on the joy that comes with providing a better life for animals that are being abused. We all can change the life of an animal and give it the love it deserves. Please feel free to post your rescues and they're stories!
These hens we're living in a 12 by 12 pen with around 20 other large breed chickens with no water on a 90 degree day. I paid the lady eight dollars per hen just to take them home with me and help give them a better life. They are very good layers and sweet girls. I am pretty sure they are all Red-Sex Links so that's what I call them.
She is going through some over breeding issues as well as some picking in this picture
This lovley gentelman is called Highmie. He was comfinscated from an illegal cock-fight abd was nearly dead when I took him home with me. He is now my favorite Rooster and is part of a friends breeding line of show quality AGF. He is a Red-Quill/Hatch cross.
The Rooster that gives me more trouble than any other, Big Ben. He is a New Hampshire Rooster who weighs nearly 14 lbs. He was attacked by dogs and I found him in a ditch on the roadside. His face was so scabbed over he could not see and he refused to walk for almost two weeks. I hand fed him until he got well enough to go outside. Until then he lived in the house in a wire cage on a goose down pillow.
The Easter Egg Rooster called Buster. He is the Rooster I bred from this year and I plan on raising many more EE's in the coming years. I brought home two blue eggs that I found in the nieghbors dogs mouth (there are no EE's around so I have no idea) I out them in the incubator and he hatched, I gave him to a home and later discovered him in a small pen with four hens and living on whole corn. He was seven months old and weiged only 25 ozs.
The Bantams. These all came from over crowding situations and are now free-ranged on my two acres and are quite happy. three hens went broody this year and one still has a chick. I love them but they are QUITE noisy!
These are not rescues but I love them too!
The Children of the EE and the sex-link hens:
My Silver Phoneix chicks:
And JUST CAUSE I LOVE THEM: My White Chinese Goose "Goosie" and My breed unknown Duck "Oliver"
Hope that they have inspired you like they have me!
Tim in KY
These hens we're living in a 12 by 12 pen with around 20 other large breed chickens with no water on a 90 degree day. I paid the lady eight dollars per hen just to take them home with me and help give them a better life. They are very good layers and sweet girls. I am pretty sure they are all Red-Sex Links so that's what I call them.
She is going through some over breeding issues as well as some picking in this picture
This lovley gentelman is called Highmie. He was comfinscated from an illegal cock-fight abd was nearly dead when I took him home with me. He is now my favorite Rooster and is part of a friends breeding line of show quality AGF. He is a Red-Quill/Hatch cross.
The Rooster that gives me more trouble than any other, Big Ben. He is a New Hampshire Rooster who weighs nearly 14 lbs. He was attacked by dogs and I found him in a ditch on the roadside. His face was so scabbed over he could not see and he refused to walk for almost two weeks. I hand fed him until he got well enough to go outside. Until then he lived in the house in a wire cage on a goose down pillow.
The Easter Egg Rooster called Buster. He is the Rooster I bred from this year and I plan on raising many more EE's in the coming years. I brought home two blue eggs that I found in the nieghbors dogs mouth (there are no EE's around so I have no idea) I out them in the incubator and he hatched, I gave him to a home and later discovered him in a small pen with four hens and living on whole corn. He was seven months old and weiged only 25 ozs.
The Bantams. These all came from over crowding situations and are now free-ranged on my two acres and are quite happy. three hens went broody this year and one still has a chick. I love them but they are QUITE noisy!
These are not rescues but I love them too!
The Children of the EE and the sex-link hens:
My Silver Phoneix chicks:
And JUST CAUSE I LOVE THEM: My White Chinese Goose "Goosie" and My breed unknown Duck "Oliver"
Hope that they have inspired you like they have me!
Tim in KY
