Hardly anybody knows about the Key West Wildlfe Center. It’s hidden, even though it’s steps away from White Street Pier and South Roosevelt Boulevard, the main thoroughfare for people going to the beaches. We lived here two years before stepping inside, and then only because visiting friends had an obsession with rescuing baby orphaned chickens from the mean streets of Key West.
The people at the Key West Wildlife Center will gladly take in baby chicks you find around the island, which have been abandoned or which have been temporary pets and now need care and attention. The back of the center is dominated by large, clean pens for the chickens, although when I visited they had all been rounded up and taken to a farm on the mainland to live out their lives. (I hope that wasn’t just a line they gave me, but I think it’s true).
There are some permanent residents at the Key West Wildlife Center: a great white rooster in a cage on the porch:
Permanent Resident at Key West Wildlife Center
If you have extra feed, bedding or anything a chicken might need, feel free to drop it off at the Center. We did when we took some chickens there, and they seemed to really appreciate it. They do great things for the Key West chicken and any other critter that needs rescuing.
The Key West Rescue Center
Back Yard of the Key West Rescue Center
Clean Chicken Pens at the Rescue Center