Students rescue chicks left in Burger Bowl

Approximately 100 baby chickens were abandoned in the Burger Bowl at some point over the Easter weekend. Several students found the chicks on their way to classes Monday morning and a group of approximately 10 students stopped to help them. The students brought the chicks water and food before finally transporting them to the Atlanta Zoo.

“There was a guy standing there and in each hand was a little baby chick. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. They were trying to cross the road. We kept putting them down in the mulch and they kept running to the road....[Then] a girl came down and told us that there were a hundred of them in the burger bowl,” said Adam Tart, a second-year Discrete Mathematics major.

The students brought the chicks water, bread and cereal from dorm rooms. The students took care of the chicks for over two hours before transporting them to a safe home.

“Five of the chicks were really sick, a couple had broken legs and [some were] dead before we got there. Animal Control had still not shown up in 45 minutes [after they were called] so we called the police and then the Humane Society who said they couldn’t handle that many chickens. [Then we] called the Atlanta Zoo Wild Rescue who said they could take them,” said Nicole Saint-Aubin, a first-year Biochemistry major.

The students played with the chicks and even started naming them before they were transported to the zoo.

“They were so cute....It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen,” Tart said.