*UPDATE* pg 4*Rescue has 106 chicks-Need Homes-MN

[hooligan]

*****UPDATE******

Hello Chicken Friends

Thanks for forwarding this message to other potential chicken adoptors.

The response from people wanting to help these 106 chicks has been
overwhelming. Please excuse any duplicate messages- I will tidy up our
mailing list as soon as possible. I didn't want to miss anyone who has
contacted us in the last few days,

Heartfelt thanks to those who stepped forward. I have a couple hundred
e-mails to weed through so please forgive the delay in responding to
your
offers. I will need a few days to screen fosters and adoptors. The
Winona
shelter will continue to care for them until I can arrange for
transport to
adoptors/fosters with a goal to move them out of the shelter by
4/13/08.

Here is more detailed information about them and their story:

Two cartons fell off a truck carrying 6,000 male chicks being shipped
to a
local college biology lab. The animal shelter tracked down the lab
whose
address was on their shipping boxes (no airholes).

They were to be used in a classroom excercise about "Agonisitc
Behavior".
It involves injecting baby chicks with testosterone, some with saline
solution and some with sesame oil and watching as the ones given
hormones
become agressive and attack the ones who were not given the hormones. A
that
teaches calousness. The injection of testosterone in an infant's body
is
utterly unnatural and cruel. This brutal and pointless lesson has been
endlessly repeated since the 1950's and discontinued in many schools.

you can read more about it here:

http://www.upc-online.org/genetic/experimentalChemical.htm

The lab said they didn't want the 106 who fell off the truck and the
shelter
could do what they wished with them. The shelter workers fell in love
with
them and contacted Chicken Run Rescue for help. To learn more about
what
happens to chicks please read:

http://www.brittonclouse.com/chickenrunrescue/#hatcheries

The story of their rescue by Winona Police and shelter workers can be
seen
at

http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2008/04/08/news/03chicks.txt

They are all male Leghorn chicks and one White Crested Black Polish
(got on
the wrong bus apparently). I have spoken to numerous sanctuaries who
have
rescued many Leghorn roosters. They are the most common breed who needs
rescuing because Leghorn hens are the most numerous used for egg
production.
The sanctuaries report that the range of individual personalities are
no
different than any other breed. They have a life span of 4-7 years and
do
just fine in mixed flocks and "bachelor" flocks. We have developed
rooster
socializing techniques that have proven very successful and rewarding.
See
our main website for some of that information. We are always happy to
advise
on rooster socializing.

If you are interested in adopting or fostering, please follow the
instructions at

http://www.brittonclouse.com/chickenrunrescue/#ADOPT

and send us photos of where the birds would live.

Please be patient for your responses- we will answer every inquiry as
soon
as we can.

Thanks for being willing to open your hearts to a chicken, and thanks
for
not breeding or buying. There are never enough homes for displaced
animals.​

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

Oh boy, 106 roosters! Wow, I wonder how difficult it will be for them to place those, especially if the chickens are not allowed to be used for food! I will be interested to hear what happens to the chicks!

 

[blue90292]

how wonderful that they will all find homes. most shelters spay and neuter so the animals don't breed. do you know if they will caponize the roosters before they get adopted since they don't want them to breed??

 

[K&H Chicken Farm]

I am really glad to hear they where not a broiler breed! They should do just fine.

 

[kstaven]

I have never been what anyone could call an animal rights activist in any way. But considering the university and the seller didn't care what happens to them since they didn't arrive with the rest, it really makes me wonder about the people involved and how they manage animals they do have.

Seems those where a very lucky group of roosters.

 

[silkiechicken]

I find that really odd that the university didn't care for the birds and even want them back.. also that the birds were not first offered back to the purchasers before putting up for adoption since they were in a box with a shipping label. IACUC would be all over them if they were a research university...must be a local college of the town or something that doesn't seem to have these rules?

 

[hooligan]

Well if the other 5894 chicks made it to the college they probably didn't care what happened tot he other 106.

Could the hatchery even take them back once they left, due to regualtions?

 

[silkiechicken]

I doubt the hatchery could take them back, especially since most hatcheries don't even house the breeding flocks. And brining chicks back would probably be a biosecurity issue for the flock owner which they came from.

 

[redhead83402]

I thought the other 5 thousand 800 some odd chicks fell off the truck too? I guess rescuing 106 chicks is far more do-able than a full 6000, eh? And although I'm a newbie on here, I also thought that male white leghorns were pretty much a ~culled~ bird in the meat/egg industry. Isn't it the white leghorn pullets that lay all the white eggs in the stores? Likely the school got a pretty nice deal on the chicks & could care less about one box.

I guess it was those roosters' lucky day ~
~Red