Jupiter Farms residents say their quiet corner of Palm Beach County has turned into an impromptu chicken dumping ground, with live and dead birds showing up in shopping center parking lots, public parks and along neighborhood roads. Some of the chickens appear to have been mutilated, neighbors report. Volunteers and local residents have been scrambling to scoop up the birds, leaving small rescues stretched thin as people search for humane alternatives to simply letting the animals loose. County officials and rescuers are urging poultry owners to use proper surrender options instead of abandoning birds in public places.
Chickens Turning Up In Unusual Spots
As reported by CBS12, Jupiter Farms resident Stephanie Dunn, who runs a nonprofit rescue from her home, said she now gets two to three calls a week about abandoned chickens and has taken in nearly 60 birds. Dunn told the station, “A chicken doesn’t tend to wander too far, certainly not to Publix,” and described finding birds that had been decapitated, were missing feet or had been…..