Janty Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 (edited) Does anybody else on here get rehoming requests? I have had three in about two weeks. A friend called this morning to ask if I knew the number of hen rehoming as her neighbour had four 'that she needed to shift'. I ask what she meant by shift. Were they not laying anymore or could she not look after them? What breeds were they? Etc? Apparently, they are not very old but there has been a family break up and the hens and a cat have to go and this neighbour is desperate to find a home quickly. I have agreed to let her have my number and I have found a home if they are hybrids. However, I have made it clear that I go on holiday Friday morning so if she wants help she will have to act quickly. Guess what! No call. I have visions of her ringing me when I'm half way up Snowdon. Edited August 17, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 By the way, I'm not hinting for anybody to take them. I may have a home for them whatever they turn out to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Oh yes, I get them all the time - especially about cockerels. If I'd said yes I'd have had...... an Apenzeller a vorwork a Dutch Bantam 2 Buff Orpingtons A Cream Legbar A Nieder Rheiner A Light sussex A Seabright A Welsummer A Brahma & a bantam don't know what. That's just the boys!! I find it terrible how people think they can just palm them off & get rid off them when a new ' toy' comes along. Silly people shoud have more respect for chooks & us! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Yep, my best approach was in the hospice when my Grandad was dying of terminal lung cancer. Another patients family found out I had chickens (as Grandad loved to hear about the girls) and they started hassling me to rehome 4 chooks from a family member. I am still shocked about it now 1. I was hardly in a state to be approached for such a thing, 2. I have no room for more at the moment. Some people shouldn't be allowed pets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I don't mind being asked, although I am very choosy - age, breed, and reasons for rehoming, please! - but what annoys me is being asked, making mental preparations for separating the run, finding the cat carrier, how much I am going to be around over the next few weeks etc and then hearing nothing more, or being told a couple of weeks later 'oh, it's ok, I found someone else to take them'. It's a sad reflection on the times however that more and more people apparently feel unable to keep their hens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 Well, I have had the phone call. The lady said that she didn't know much other than they were bantams and different colours. She also said that one was a cockerel. I went to see them and she has four pekin hens. The black one that she was told might be a cockerel is a lovely black hen. I asked her about noise and she said that they make noise during the morning when they have laid their eggs. We asked her about cock-a-doodle doing and she said that she'd never heard any of that. It was just that the black hen was very noisy and she described a bok bok noise. I have spoken to my friend who sayd that she never hears the chickens. I've seen enough pekin cockerels to know the difference (hopefully) and if it's a boy, I'll eat my bra! Anyway, to cut a long story short, she is going to keep them until after the holiday and we are going to take them complete with their little wooden house. It will be the first time I've had a wooden hen house. I know, soft touch but it was really hubby's idea so I'm blaming him. There is a black one, a buff one and two mille fleurs that are a lot darker than my mille fleurs...like a dark chocolate mille fleur. My Millie and Fleur are more caramel mille fleur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Awww. good on you Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 That will take me up to 17 pekins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I've got 4! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 17!! Well done for taking them on ... another WIR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 I daren't! I'm running out of garden anyway. Mind you, hubby has just been out in the garden planning where they will go. He even mentioned looking out for another eglu for them as he said that he wasn't happy keeping them in a wooden house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 I say 17....one of my pekins hatched from eggs given to me by a breeder. She is a little mille fleur but not very pekin like. She's either runty or a bit of a barbe d'whatsit as the breeder also keeps these. She's totally sweet whatever she is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Must be nice for you having some girls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 It makes a change! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Janty - you'll have to move soon - or just pinch a bit of next doors garden. I don't think they'd mind! My millefleur girls are both different. Bobbin is very red & Beanie is very lemon. Mr Kipling is a mix of red, lemon, black & white. 17 pekins...I thought I'd got a lot at 14. Ha! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkysmum Posted August 18, 2010 Share Posted August 18, 2010 Janty, Hi, whilst I agree 100% with everything you say about rehoming , I am very mrgreen: 17 pekins I would LOVE some more, but can't find any around here ( I do have my fingers crossed for something next month though ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted August 18, 2010 Author Share Posted August 18, 2010 6 of those 17 will be rehomed pekins so I have to admit responsibility for the other 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
