Any vegans or vegetarians out there that have taken in rescue chickens?

I am hoping to take a couple of chickens who are destined for the slaughterhouse but wanted advice on building a henhouse, what to feed them, what type of flooring etc.?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

To Stephen L :

Errrrrrr, they will otherwise be murdered !

Kittens yes, chicken no

and a old dog named Austin, a Boston Terrier afflictec with cataracts..

am also not a vegatarian or vegan


for chickens you need a bit of land, not much since ther are only two of them. Henhouse should be raised if pests such as rodents are a potential problem. A two foot by three foot wooden one is good enough. Despite what you may think, they need a snug home to roost in. layer with straw of for anest or some other material that's confortable. allow them to scratch around during the day. Pet stores have feeds that you can buy.

No, but that sounds amusing to me. We used to raise chickens when I lived with my uncle. They lived in a shack attached to a barn. They had a perch that was easy to jump to that was a round pole that ran to both walls and was around 2 or 3 inches diameter. They liked to sleep on it. There were old little apple boxes made out of wood that was filled with hay were they would go to lay eggs and cluck around. There was a covered inner area outside of their sleeping and laying area that had hay in it. I suppose that was in case it rained so they could still walk around. Then there was the outside area that didn't have no hay. It was made of wood about 3 or 4 feet up so they didn't see any predators outside that would stress em out. Chicken wire to about 8 feet tall after that. We'd let them out during the day and let them mosy about the land. They'd come home to roost on their perch in the evening. I don't think about saving chickens much, but if you do, that's nice. Hope they have pleasant lives.

Yep, all our 50 chickens are rescues. Feel free to email me for any advice about them, no problem at all.

Rather than type in a whole load of stuff, which would amount to many pages of advice, I'd prefer to wait to see if you contact me,.

sorry, but its not worth typing all the advice you need about chickens without knowing its going to be used.

I would recommend just buying a hen house as it's alot easier and safer. You can check out the new Eglu chicken coops at omlet using the link below.

http://www.omlet.co.uk/products_services...

The coops are made of plastic which is better than wood as it doesn't get infected with those 'lil red insects' and doesn't have to be treated.

There are two options, which I won't bother explaining as you can just look on the website. It's fantastic providing you live in the UK.

Below is another link to the omlet website. This link tells you everything you need to know about keeping chickens.

http://www.omlet.co.uk/guide/guide.php?v...

I've been looking into getting chickens myself too. Omlet are the best I've found and I've done alot of research. They've got loads of great videos and pictures and I found them very useful. Good luck with you chickens!! :)

make a small wooden "house" for them, make sure that they each have a little nesting area with straw, a friend of the family had chickens and he had a little wooden ramp leading into their hen house, I think you can give them corn, or there hen feed you can get at a pet store of farm supply store.

Chickens are not too difficult to care for and do wonders for keeping bugs out of the yard. Just be sure they are legal to keep in your area(some places do not allow live stock), and be sure when you build the coop, it is secure against raccoon, cats, etc. the last thing you want is to find an empty coop or killed chicken.

There are some websites that give instructions/idea on how to build a proper coop.
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Build-a...
http://www.backyardchickens.com/

Interesting question: how could vegans, who regard keeping chickens for egg production as a bad thing, do so themselves?

how would you get them? seriously, i want to do this someday!