Authorities Call Fowl: Rooster Painted Orange, Left on Busy Road

MASSACHUSETTS — The barn staff at MSPCA-Nevins Farm thought they had seen it all until Wednesday, when an animal control officer brought to them a one-year-old rooster who had been painted orange from beak to toe.

A good Samaritan saw the rooster walking down a busy road in Lynn. The person called Lynn Animal Control Officer Kevin Biasetti who then hurried the friendly, brightly-colored rooster to Nevins in Methuen.

“We’ve taken in thousands of roosters in our 100 years of operation but this is the first time anyone can recall a bird painted orange from head to toe,” said Julia Pesek of the MPSCA-Nevins Farm in a statement. “It’s impossible to know who did this and why but the most important thing to us is that he’s seemingly healthy and very adoptable—once we correct his bad dye job.”

Because its coop is already packed, the team named the bird “Chester” and settled him into a makeshift coop inside the MSPCA-Nevins Farm barn, which houses dozens of horses and other farm animals.

“We currently have over 140 roosters and hens living on the farm—we’re absolutely over capacity and hopeful that folks will open their homes to birds this Holiday season.”

The MSPCA-Nevins Farm is asking would-be bird adopters to email barnstaff@mspca.org if interested in adopting Chester or another of the farm’s many fowl.

Photo Credit: MSPCA