Adopt a Chicken
Adopt a chicken… and help Sandy’s Garden grow!
For a donation of just $25, you can “Adopt a Chicken” that lives full-time at Sandy’s Garden, where it’s lovingly fed, housed, and cared for. Your adoption directly supports the farm’s flock and the work Sandy’s Garden does to nourish the community with fresh, healthy food. You'll receive an "adoption certificate" and a picture of your new special friend. Donations are tax deductible.
Adoptions make a fun, meaningful gift for kids, teachers, friends, or that hard-to-shop-for person—or you can adopt a chicken for yourself and know you’re helping keep this special place clucking along.
Meet our Feathered Flock!
Mama
Breed: Golden Comet (also known as a Red Star)
Personality & Traits: docile, friendly, hardy, good egg layers
Eggs: brown eggs
A Special Note about Mama: This hen came to us after we received an email with the subject “Lonely Chicken.” It seems that her owners had three hens, two of which had died. Mama was the only one left and was lonely. Would we like her? We sure did! We met in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot and the rest is history. Mama has been a bossy, busy, and well-loved member of our flock who has laid eggs since she joined us in April 2025.
Ganny
Breed: Indian Runner Duck - Fawn & White Variety
Traits & Personality: breed of domestic duck from Indonesia, known for its tall, upright stance, legs set far back on their bodies so that they run instead of waddle, can be nervous and tend to run in a group, excellent foragers of insect pests, hardy, social and personable, good egg layers.
Eggs: Indian Runner Ducks lay white or blue-green eggs, depending on the individual duck, with no correlation to feather color (Ganny lays white eggs)
Fun Fact: Ganny was named through our Sponsorship Program in honor of a wonderful grandmother affectionately known as Ganny.
-birthday: 5/27/25
Fun Story: Ganny, true to her namesake, is in charge at our coop. She will let us know if any of the hens are doing something they should not be doing. One evening, one of the hens had somehow hopped the fence of the coop and was in the garden. It was getting dark and she was unable to get back into the henhouse to roost for the night. When I went in the coop to close up the ducks and chickens, Ganny would not go in. She quacked and led me directly to the spot in the fence where the missing hen had given up and was nestled in the garden for the night. After I returned her to the coop, Ganny happily went to bed.