wow. that is some chicken!

That is amazing! just the fact that she survived a dump truck ride for 200 miles is a miracle let alone in a mound of compost. How horrible for her but lucky because she completed the journey to you!

Please keep us posted on her, have you given her a name?

-Sheila

Poor thing. I bet she will do just fine thanks to your TLC.

Wow. Good for you for taking her in! Has that chicken ever earned herself a good home outdoors with green grass, nice flockmates for company and all the juicy bugs she could ever eat.

If she needs a home, I'd be honored to have her. :) Ask her if she wants to come and live in sunny California! Yay for Miracle The Wonder Chicken!

Velvet ~:>

I think you should call her soteria or teri for short. soteria is the greek word for salvation.

We were calling her fluffen' Lucky(family store lol) but we like the name Teri, thank you.
She is luckier than thought because at these farms when a hen no longer lays 2 eggs a day they are gassed and put in the compost. She must have held her breath or was in the middle of alot of chickens. She is standing and even walking a little we are looking forward to having her stand on real ground and scrach. She has been debeaked so I think she is handicaped in the pecking department. She may have to be a pet chicken. We too are hopeing to see her with a flock. She is in not so sunny Northern California. I really feel good about her.

Wow. Teri's story get more and more amazing. :o Two eggs each DAY? And if they do have to cull birds, why on earth would they waste all that perfectly good chicken meat by just tossing it on the compost heap? Not to mention that most compost heaps are comprised of green matter only...odd.

I've seen many a debeaked hen at our local feed store (they take in the retired girls from a local egg operation, bless their hearts!) and they get along just fine, although my heart goes out to those poor girls.

I'm quite serious about offering Teri a good home if she needs one. I have a large backyard in suburban Los Angeles and have a mixed flock, all of whom are pets first and egg gifters second. We don't eat our birds and any bird that comes here is a family member and lives out their lives happy and well cared for. :)

If you want to see pics of my flock and read more about them, I have a chicken info site here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~velvetsparrow/VSChick.htm

Velvet ~:>

My mom used to work at a commercial egg farm when I was young and you'd be amazed at what those poor birds go through. We had several pet chickens thanks to the egg farm. Not to mention at least one day old feral kitten that had a jaw problem the kept it from nursing and was consequently abandoned by it's mother. Mom brought it home so we hand raised it and it lived a long and happy life with us.

Thank you for the offer Velvet, we did get her a home with a flock and she is doing fine. Seems chickens keep their chicknness. I am so glad that my chickens are pets too. I would have kept her but she wasn't ready for my rooster. lol