Adopt, Don't Shop
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Adopt, Don't Shop 〰️
Hens and roosters of all different sizes, colors and personalities are looking for great homes
If you live in California (or surrounding states) and are interested in adopting, we’d love to hear from you! If you live outside California, let us know — we may be able to help you find adoptable birds in your area.
Most of our hens-in-need are refugees from egg factories, and almost all of our beautiful roosters were abandoned by people who purchased them as chicks and didn’t plan for a rooster.
There are many reasons to adopt a rescued chicken:
Chickens make great companions! Hens are the third most-popular companion animal in Great Britain, and in the USDA projected a 400% increase in the number of chickens living in urban backyard flocks for 2019.
Hens like Florence need you to open your heart and your home to them.
As the number of families with pet chickens has risen, so has the number of chickens in animal shelters. Just as with dogs and cats, many of these happy, healthy birds will be euthanized simply for lack of homes.
What you see is what you get, when you adopt an adult bird. Because it is very difficult to determine the sex of baby birds, all chicks purchased from hatcheries (excepting sex-linked breeds) have a ten percent possibility of maturing into a rooster. While roosters are wonderful flock guardians, they are banned by many local ordinances.
Adoption saves not only the life of the individual bird adopted, but it also saves the lives of chicks at the hatchery. How? For every female chick hatched one male chick was hatched. Because there is no market for urban rooster, almost all males hatched are either ground up alive, suffocated en masse inside dumpsters, or frozen for snake food.
There are literally thousands of chickens -- both hens and roosters -- available for adoption at any given time in California. Nationwide, Adopt A Bird Network lists chickens waiting in animals shelters in major cities nationwide. Many farmed animal sanctuaries across the country also adopt out chickens.
If you think you can open your heart and your home to a feathery friend (or two!) , please fill out our online adoption application and one of our Adoption Coordinators will contact you! If you don't live in California and still want to adopt, please contact us and we will try to locate a resource in your area.
