Chicken Rescue Network

We are a non-profit, volunteer-run operation that wants to see more chickens given happy homes. Set up in early 2007, this web site and its mailing list aims to make it easy for you to re-home your chickens.

Our members are mostly based in and around Auckland, but we do have members all over New Zealand. Hopefully it is only a matter of time before we can help chickens all over the country find new homes.

If you are looking to adopt some chickens, then please join the mailing list and you will be notified when chickens are available. If you have chickens to re-home, just join and post a message, letting the network know you have chickens available - it's as simple as that.

The chickens being re-homed through this network come from many backgrounds - from the rescue and placement of ex-battery hens to the odd stray rooster that needs a new home.

If you are ready to adopt a chicken, or re-home yours then join now!

Our experience with rescued battery hens

About a year ago we were approached by a friend to adopt some rescued ex-battery hens that needed re-homing. She had a few hundred of them but we agreed to take 12 as that was all we could cope with.

When the SPCA arrived to deliver the chickens I was amazed and appalled at their condition. They were well below their natural free-feeding weight and all of them had feathers missing on their bodies and wings to some degree. Most had beak damage and some were limping. They looked a lot like the hens at the top of the page.