The dark side of the coop

For shelters and rescues taking in chickens, the quest for backyard eggs isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
"We have three chickens,” reads the email, one of many that routinely land in Mary Britton Clouse’s inbox. “Somehow they all got frostbitten when they were a couple months old. One is missing every claw, one is missing feet, and [one] is missing feet and shanks. We were wondering if you guys could take them in.”