Need to rehome your birds?
Find a safe home for your chickens, roosters, ducks, geese and other poultry
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How rehoming works here
One post, two minutes.
1. Describe the bird
Breed, age, how many, and the town you would hand him over in. A rehome post needs at least one photo — that is not a formality. A post with a picture of the actual bird gets answered; one without it mostly does not.
2. It goes on the board
Your post lands on the public adoption board and gets its own shareable page. Anyone interested replies through the site — your email address is never shown on the post.
Confirming the post by email also sets up a free account in your name. That is what lets you edit it, or take it down once the bird is placed.
Posts carry an approximate location, so the board is on its way to becoming a map of birds needing homes alongside the seller map — a pin for every bird, once there are enough posts to make one worth reading. Yours counts toward that.
3. You arrange the handover
Nothing is booked or paid through this site. You talk to whoever answers, decide whether you like them, and arrange pickup yourself. You can say no to anyone, for any reason.
Why so many roosters need homes
Sexing day-old chicks is imperfect and straight-run orders are not sexed at all, so a backyard flock regularly turns out to contain a cockerel nobody planned for. By the time he starts crowing at four or five months, the keeper usually has weeks, not months, to sort it out.
The other half is legal. Plenty of cities allow backyard hens and ban roosters specifically, which turns an ordinary bird into one his owner is not permitted to keep — 20 of the cities in our ordinance research ban them outright. Check whether roosters are allowed where you live. If they are not, say so in your post: an adopter on acreage reads that as a bird with nothing wrong with him.
Common questions
What can I do with a rooster I can't keep?
Your options are, roughly in order of how many birds they can absorb: rehome him directly to a local keeper with hens and no cockerel, contact a farm sanctuary or poultry rescue, or ask the feed store or hatchery you bought from whether they take returns. Posting him publicly reaches the first group, which is by far the largest. Dumping a domestic rooster outdoors is not an option -- he will not survive it, and in most places it is illegal abandonment.
Is it hard to rehome a rooster?
Harder than a hen, and honestly so: a straight-run chick order produces roughly half cockerels, most cities that allow backyard chickens ban roosters outright, and so the supply is large and steady while the demand is small. It is not hopeless. Keepers on acreage want a flock protector, breeders want fresh genetics, and sanctuaries take birds nobody else will. What it takes is reach and patience, not luck.
Do I have to give my birds away for free?
No. Posts here can be free, name a price, or ask for a rehoming fee. A small fee is common for roosters and filters out the least serious responses, though it also narrows your pool. Free listings move fastest.
How much does it cost to post?
Nothing. There is no sign-up form either: you write the post, then confirm it from a link we email you. That link also sets up a free ChickenMap account in your name, which is what lets you edit the post, mark the bird as placed, or take it down once he has gone. You never fill in a password.
Ready to find your birds a home?
Chickens, roosters, ducks, geese, turkeys, quail — any poultry, one bird or a whole flock. The form asks for the breed, rough age, how many, the town you would hand them over in, and at least one photo. No account, no fee, and your email address never appears on the post.