There is good news about a flock of just over 100 chickens that were rounded up around the Saanich Peninsula last week.
The Bylaw Officer for the Capital Regional District, Don Brown, says after every bird was finally gathered up there were 101 chickens being housed at the district facility.
And while officials are still looking into who released them -- adoptions proved extremely popular:
" In the meantime all the chickens have been picked up and adopted. So we've had people you know pick up pairs, some people picked up six, one person picked up 15, and a couple of groups picked up larger numbers -- I think it was 25 and 30. So, they're all gone. "
It was last Thursday police started getting reports of chickens on the loose over a wide area in Central and North Saanich, and Sidney -- which suggests they had been dropped off.
The hens were older, but still laying eggs, and were starving.
Brown says an investigation has so far failed to find the culprit who abandoned the chickens, but he remains hopeful someone out there will report a neighbour that had chickens and now does not.
If found, Brown says they will become the focus of an animal cruelty investigation.