Posted on 07/26/2021 11:23:09 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
At the start of the pandemic, when daring to go to the supermarket meant staring at empty shelves where the dairy products, canned goods, and yeast packets used to be, some people decided that they'd adopt chickens to give themselves a steady supply of fresh eggs, or just to take control of something in their lives.
But now that everything feels slightly different and many of us are inching our way back to normal, those chickens have become just another responsibility—or perhaps a reminder of what life was like twelve-plus months ago. As a result, some people are giving up their backyard birds, which is proving to be stressful for the chickens themselves, and for the organizations that rescue roosters and hens.
According to Block Club Chicago, the Chicago Roo Crew is one of those animal advocacy groups, and they're struggling to pay for veterinary care for the birds they already have. They've been inundated with so many requests to take in abandoned or unwanted chickens that they've had to start turning them down, and referring those people to other organizations. "Right now, currently, we're closed for intake," Julia Magnus, an animal rights attorney and Chicago Roo Crew volunteer, told the outlet. "Because we have too many [birds] and our vet bills are tremendous."
This isn't just happening in Chicago either: Tamerlaine Sanctuary & Preserve in Montague, New Jersey told the West Milford Messenger that they've had to stop taking in new birds after having to accept 20 hens in the past few months. The sanctuary houses around 150 birds, and it might spend as much as $20,000 every year on veterinary care for the chickens.
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That’s the same type of ignorant thinking I heard from a pro-abortion person. She said if you pro-lifers are so gung-ho about protecting life from conception, why not go a step further and also be pro-sperm? A real SMH moment, to be sure.
If she tries to load you into a trailer hooked up to the truck - RUN! :)
YES, Please! :)
(I love Owen and Grommet, too!)
In Hawaii, they have chickens wandering around literally every place you go except the most urbanized areas. Big, beautiful, colorful ones too. I forget the breed. Like the rooster on the old Kellogg’s cornflakes box.
Heck, I just get nervous when she asks where the truck keys are!
I thought I was the only one that buys dog food by the pallet.
Our horse vet bill runs about $1,000 between April and August which is breeding season.
“Chickens do not have wings anymore...wings are gone”
Mine do and I have had some that could flying as high as the rooftop.
Yeh, we have chickens but grid down we eat a few. Giving them back is not on the agenda.
So they figured out chickens don’t lay Deviled Eggs?
The next farm over is a huge horse operation. She’s so awesome at it, and her twin boys have been on horseback since before they could walk. So admirable! (There is a husband; he’s awesome, too!) She raises Paints and something else, but her horses go for top dollar and her breeding line is amazing. If you want, I’ll PM you with information. You could already know her, ‘cuz all ‘horsey people’ know one another, Right? LOL!
Anyhow, I’m afraid of horses and I never turn my back on our mule. He is a total pony-tail puller, LOL! My Steer is gentle as can be, but he’d accidentally crush me to death while loving me up, I’m sure. I keep a fence between him and me at all times, too. ;)
Big livestock is not for me. Anything bigger than a goat (and I HATE goats!) is beyond my capabilities. I freely admit this. :)
They’ve been bred to grow very fast and they have to be harvested by a certain age or bad things will happen. I thought 12 weeks was quick but another poster above-Pollard (#42) says one certain breed takes just 6 weeks to mature.
Lol, that was my first thought. l I have never taken a chicken to the vet! Most things a chicken would come down with are easy to fix with OTC meds. City folks.
These people were actually smart enough to do something for themselves, and now they're going back to being dumb??? Free eggs for the life of the danged chicken! Millions of urban Latinos can't be wrong.
Before any business takes back a chicken, they should check to make sure that it has never been choked.
It took SEVENTY FOUR posts to get to the ‘chokin’ the chicken’ comment!
FReepers are slipping, LOL! :)
I have been raising chickens for about 20 years and have yet to spend the first penny on vet care for one of them.
They are one of the nastiest creatures on Earth and I shudder trying to imagine what it would take to get one sick.
One day they are fine and the next dead as a post unless they just die slowly of old age.
Roughly $1 in feed every 3 weeks/chicken
Soup!
You would kill an ailing chicken I expect.
These clowns would put it on life support.
Tried to do that once and only gave the hen a chiropractic adjustment. When she came walking out if the woods the next morning after I had pitched the body to the wild things I was floored.
I just look at their feet and eye ring to see if they’re laying. If they ar bleached out they are laying. If they are golden they are not
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