Flock for Adoption near Hagerstown, MD

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For various reasons, my time of keeping chickens is coming to an end. I am putting my birds out there to see if there’s any interest (there are seventeen of them, so this is a really long post!).

They are grouped according to who gets along, so if you should be interested in a particular bird, please know you have to take its whole group as well.

These are my pets, so I would like them to be adopted by someone who will love and care for them. Please PM me if you want prices or more information :). I am located near Hagerstown, Maryland but will travel up to a couple hours if I can make sure they will have a good home. I also have ducks and a turkey, which are listed here.


Old Maids - These hens are 2.5 years old. Only Lydwinne is laying. Winston is human aggressive but good with his hens. I doubt anyone will want this group but I'm putting them out there just in case.

Lydwinne - Welsummer
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Winston - Gold Duckwing Phoenix
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Rose - Delaware
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Prudence - Plymouth Rock
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Biddies - Jenny is a year old, Dolores and Viv will be a year in November, and Patience is about five months.
Jenny has successfully brooded two chicks; one of them, Liberty, is fifteen weeks old as of 15 September 2024 and will be included in the group. He is a mixed breed, a momma's boy and rarely crows. He has never tried to mate and is very skittish.
The four hens are very sweet, especially Patience, and would do well for a family with children. They are fairly good layers.

Jenny - Jubilee Orpington
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Vivienne - Buff Orpington
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Dolores - Australorp
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Patience - Buff Brahma
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Liberty - Cream Legbar/Silver Duckwing Yokohama
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The Virtues - This group is made up of three Mottled Javas and Honor, the other chick hatched by Jenny. Despite the name of their flock, the Virtues are anything but...they run around the yard like little bandits. They are very skittish and I was only able to get a decent picture of Charity. They are about five months old and are laying with more or less regularity. Honor is fifteen weeks and very skittish, but he is crowing and mating.

Charity - Mottled Java
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Honor - Cream Legbar/Silver Duckwing Yokohama
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The Lucy Show - This subflock is named for its most animated member, a Naked Neck named Lucy. She loves to "help" you garden and do other chores around the yard. She and her sister Lily are about 1.5 years old. They lay regularly. There is also Wilhelmina, aged 2.5 years, and Stanislaw, unknown age. He was a rescue. He is a very good rooster, rather skittish, but not aggressive at all.

Lucy - Naked Neck
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Lily - Naked Neck
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Wilhelmina - Cream Legbar
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Stanislaw - Silver Duckwing Yokohama
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For various reasons, my time of keeping chickens is coming to an end. I am putting my birds out there to see if there’s any interest (there are seventeen of them, so this is a really long post!).

They are grouped according to who gets along, so if you should be interested in a particular bird, please know you have to take its whole group as well.

These are my pets, so I would like them to be adopted by someone who will love and care for them. Please PM me if you want prices or more information :). I am located near Hagerstown, Maryland but will travel up to a couple hours if I can make sure they will have a good home. I also have ducks and a turkey, which are listed here.


Old Maids - These hens are 2.5 years old. Only Lydwinne is laying. Winston is human aggressive but good with his hens. I doubt anyone will want this group but I'm putting them out there just in case.

Lydwinne - Welsummer
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Winston - Gold Duckwing Phoenix
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Rose - Delaware
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Prudence - Plymouth Rock
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Biddies - Jenny is a year old, Dolores and Viv will be a year in November, and Patience is about five months.
Jenny has successfully brooded two chicks; one of them, Liberty, is fifteen weeks old as of 15 September 2024 and will be included in the group. He is a mixed breed, a momma's boy and rarely crows. He has never tried to mate and is very skittish.
The four hens are very sweet, especially Patience, and would do well for a family with children. They are fairly good layers.

Jenny - Jubilee Orpington
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Vivienne - Buff Orpington
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Dolores - Australorp
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Patience - Buff Brahma
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Liberty - Cream Legbar/Silver Duckwing Yokohama
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The Virtues - This group is made up of three Mottled Javas and Honor, the other chick hatched by Jenny. Despite the name of their flock, the Virtues are anything but...they run around the yard like little bandits. They are very skittish and I was only able to get a decent picture of Charity. They are about five months old and are laying with more or less regularity. Honor is fifteen weeks and very skittish, but he is crowing and mating.

Charity - Mottled Java
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Honor - Cream Legbar/Silver Duckwing Yokohama
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The Lucy Show - This subflock is named for its most animated member, a Naked Neck named Lucy. She loves to "help" you garden and do other chores around the yard. She and her sister Lily are about 1.5 years old. They lay regularly. There is also Wilhelmina, aged 2.5 years, and Stanislaw, unknown age. He was a rescue. He is a very good rooster, rather skittish, but not aggressive at all.

Lucy - Naked Neck
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Lily - Naked Neck
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Wilhelmina - Cream Legbar
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Stanislaw - Silver Duckwing Yokohama
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Assuming they were rehomed?
 
Edit: Taking this many adult chickens and roosters as a group would require me to build a new coop and run or at least temporarily separate them until integrated with mine.
I wish you the best in rehoming them together but I live too far away to transport this many birds.I would have to rent a van lol
 
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Edit: Taking this many adult chickens and roosters as a group would require me to build a new coop and run or at least temporarily separate them until integrated with mine.
I wish you the best in rehoming them together but I live too far away to transport this many birds.I would have to rent a van lol
Just to clarify, you don’t need to take them all - you just have to take all the birds in a group (most is four birds per group) :).
 
Just to clarify, you don’t need to take them all - you just have to take all the birds in a group (most is four birds per group) :).
I kept 7 hens from all the 2021-22 chicks I raised ( 2 Dominique's, 2 Black Australorps, a Barred Rock,a SL Wyandotte and a Sapphire Gem.) and 7 chicks from my 2023 order (a Cream Legbar rooster ,4 Brown Leghorns and 2 Welsummers)
 
Just to clarify, you don’t need to take them all - you just hghorn ave to take all the birds in a group (most is four birds per groween up) so :)to
I had a hen only flock before adding 2 cockerels last year. It wasn't a picnic raising them but I got a good one out of the two. I rehomed the other boy
 

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