🦆 The Rooster Roster! 🐓

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Welcome to the Rooster Roster! Please reply to this email and give us your feedback! We love to hear from our fellow bird lovers.

Here’s what we have for you this week:

• 🚑 The ultra-effective way of tracking bird health that you probably aren’t doing

• 😴 A shelter with the world’s most boring bird names (no, it’s not another “Hennifer”)

• 🌟 This NY band named after our favorite barn resident

• ❤️ Our heartfelt thanks for being with us as we try to find homes for all our feathery friends.

Scroll to your state in their alphabetical order to find the bird of your dreams! 👇

One tip: we highlight birds that are NEW to their shelters, so we recommend also browsing through your local shelter’s adoptable animals to see if you can spot any older hidden gems waiting for you, or even birds pending a stray hold that you could be first in line to see when they become available. Get to know your local shelter’s system and you will have a leg up on adopting the bird of your dreams! 🔎

Alabama

• Huntsville/Elkmont - Two handsome brothers

California

• Salinas/Montery County - ducks Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Roo D'Artagnan

• Santa Cruz - Brooklyn

• Richmond - Aries

• Monterey - Rufus

• San Diego/El Cajon - a fluffy boy with a super long name

• South Los Angeles - Timmy, with a ‘get me quick!’ notice, and a beautiful lavender Roo

• Orange County - an exotic golden pheasant named… Rupert?

• San Bernadino/Devore - Ezra, an “animal” who “looks like a duck” (????!?)

Florida

• Vero Beach - a… hen? Maybe?

Idaho

• Pocatello - Chicken Joe

Indiana

• Millersburg/Goshen - three young roosters, for “…flock, pet, or food”

Kansas

• Oskaloosa - “bulk” young hens, including the cover model with an attitude

Massachusetts

• Dedham - David Bowie, Remy, Lennie, and George

North Carolina

• Raleigh/Kenly - four girls, a rooster, and their pen

• Thomasville - a handsome and “not mean” rooster

• Harnett - Cockadoodledoo! and F[r]oghorn

Nebraska

• Omaha - Popeye and Kentucky

Nevada

• Las Vegas - Bailey

New York

• Danby - a healthy young rooster with a good father

• Rosendale - a healthy young rooster with a bad father

Pennsylvania

• Hanover - two year old hens

• Quakertown - Frosty (“like the snowman!” - my 4 year old)

Texas

• Greenville - a Rooster named Rooster, plus another named Rooster, plus another named Chicken Rooster (someone please send that shelter some name suggestions or I will cry, thanks.)

Virginia

• Winchester - a Barred Rock rooster ISO his own ladies

A Fast, Cheap, and Underused Way to Track Bird Health 🚑

It can be difficult to monitor a bird’s health. They don’t like to show symptoms and they movie in flocks so group behavior is quicker to camouflage behavior changes than an individual pet could show.

But there is an easy way to track overall health changes, and chances are, you arent doing it yet!

Weigh your birds regularly. No, this is not a weird diet culture “hack.” By tracking your birds weight with something as simple as a weekly weight-in, you can monitor for changes in health that may need attention. A low weight loss, especial during seasons of temperature changes, molting or other stress, can be normal, but abrupt weight gain or loss can be red flags that indicate a need for a vet appointment.

The easiest way to weigh birds is with a kitchen scale and a cardboard box or other container. Track each individual bird’s weight with an app or a good old fashioned paper notebook, and you’ll be the first to know if your bird needs medical attention. A speedy weekly weigh-in is also a good opportunity for a quick, positive interaction with birds that otherwise don’t want to be handled.

Do you weigh your birds? Has it ever saved a feathered life? Reply and let us know!𐄷

Did you fall in love with one of these birds today? Send us a photo of your adopted bird for a chance to be featured in a future edition of the Rooster Roster and on our social media pages! 🤳

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🧘‍♀️ This is the end, so you’re free to relax, unless seeing this in your own yard STILL gives you that nanosecond jolt of panic 😅←