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Up at 5am Saturday to help Chicken Rescue UK as farm team and to bring 50 lucky ladies back to be collected by their new owners.
On the same morning, we hear about 1 cockerel in school grounds in Nottingham (which was just up the road from the farm) and 3 cockerels dumped near Sheffield. We did a quick drive by of the school and saw the boy but he was extremely nervous, we decided to come up with a plan for that one as I didn’t bring my net! We came home for the rehome and then back out
First the Sheffield boys, there were 3 which had been dumped and one was badly hurt by a fox or dog. Luckily some lovely people found him and have been nursing him back to health. Colin will stay with the people for a few more weeks until his wounds heal before coming into us. Currently living it up sleeping on the sofa next to the pet dog .
The other two were about 12ft up a tree, so step ladder out!! It was still too high for us as we are both only 5ft3 on a tall day so the man went up and picked them off the tree and handed them down to us. Now named Charlie and Callum
On the way back from Sheffield we decided to take a detour back to Nottingham again to see if we could see the lone boy but couldn’t find him anywhere and we were told earlier in the day that he goes into the school at night to roost which had no access at all admitting defeat we came home.
Sunday morning I had a few more rehomes so I had to stay home but Tegan made her way back to Nottingham with a net and trap. The boy had been out for a few months and was so clever, he seemed to know what a net was so people must have tried to rescue him before. So she sat and waited in the freezing cold and rain. He wouldn’t go anywhere near the trap it started getting dark and he looked like he wanted to get past Tegan to go into the school to roost.
Plan b kicked in…… stop him getting back into the school so he has to go up a tree on our side of the school fence so we can get him Tegan paced up and down the perimeter like a security dog to stop him getting back in and it worked, he went up a tree, but then he went higher and higher ended up about 25ft !! Too high for Tegan and her net
Plan C kicked in …… Tegans now sitting watching a tree, she’d been there 6 hours at this point. Rehoming had finished at home so I decided to take the ladder back over to Nottingham so we could finish the rescue. Finally got the little man and didn’t kill ourselves in the process so all good!
Huge thanks to Tegan for persevering with her cold and wet Sunday xx
Had a call from Fresh Start For Hens about 4 boys who had been dumped in a school car park and were huddled down the side of the polytunnel.
We are full but fsfh are kindly taking them in a weeks time and paid fuel costs for us to go and get them. Neither of us could bare to just leave them
Some others have been moved to a temporary enclosure to make room. These are stunning big boys and are extremely friendly
Had to go and get this little man on bonfire night, lots of lights and bangs, he must have been so scared
Very hard catch, he didn’t stay in the tree and went flying off into the bushes which meant we followed into the dense bushes on our hands and knees.
he’d been dumped the same place as Nettle was a few days before
His name is now Powder
Not sure what’s going on here, I’ve been to this location 3 times now so cameras will be going up to catch whoever is doing it
You are dumping them faster then I can save them, please stop :(
Why are people so cruel
This is little nettle. He’s been living wild for 3 weeks after being dumped just up the road from me. Luckily some people have been feeding him and my friend told me she’s seen him a few times and sent me the location.
Went to take a look and after a while he popped out the bushes. As always, waited until dark. Poor little lad was perched not 2ft off the floor so an easy meal for a hungry fox.
I’ve been Wading through brambles and nettles, and it definitely stung getting into a bath tonight!!
We have been working with a group of people for a good few months now who run a local Bushcraft group.
They had some chickens dumped on their area by the farmer and really wanted to keep them. They have been living wild for months and the people have tried to contain them but with the bad weather, lockdown coming and visible scaly leg on most of them, it was agreed by both parties that we should go and catch them.
Monitoring during the day gave us a number of 23 and we caught 23 tonight. 22 girls and a boy
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