Box of live chickens dropped off at Windsor Value Village
A local thrift shop received an unusual donation over the weekend - a box full of live chickens was found by the door at a Value Village.
An employee found the chickens Saturday morning at the front door at the Value Village at 6711 Tecumseh Rd. E.
Melanie Coulter, the executive director of the Windsor Essex County Humane Society, says the society does get about a dozen calls about chickens a year, but this case is different.
"Stray chickens are not unheard of. But having them left somewhere like this is definitely unusual," Coulter said.
Coulter said some people get chickens thinking they can raise them as pets. She suspects these six were bought as "cute fluffy chicks" before they grew and were abandoned.
"These guys are fairly young. Either people got tired of them or weren't able to handle them," Coulter said, who believes the chickens are from Windsor, where a bylaw prohibits urban chickens.
They chickens will be up for adoption by Friday.
"We've had a lot of interest in them. We have a lot of luck in placing chickens," Coulter said.
She said chickens usually end up on hobby farms in Essex County.
Coulter is confident they won't end up on a dinner plate. Generally, when people are coming to adopting them from a humane society, they pay an adoption fee and there is also an adoption counselling process, she said.
Interview requests sent to Windsor police and Value Village weren't immediately returned.
