Almond

Meet Almond. She is an Isa Brown who spent her life in a cage egg farm. She was ripped out of her cage, thrown in to a crate on a truck and driven to an abattoir to be slaughtered earlier this year. She was handled so roughly by workers that she suffered broken bones and wings. She was rescued and rehabilitated by a friend moved in to Lefty’s Place about a week ago now with her two friends from the same farm – Almond and Cashew.

Almond was terrified of people when she first arrived, but my gosh did she have attitude from the get go. I introduced these three little hens in to Super Chicken’s flock first because Super is a gentle, older rooster and he knows how to make hens feel safe. Well, Almond was having none of Super Chicken and she ran up to him, chest bumped him and challenged him to a fight within the first five minutes of arrival. In that moment, I though, “hmmmm, let’s try Popeye instead”. She seems to like Popeye a lot more and has settled right in to his family. I think she must prefer blondes.

Almond is now a fully fledged member of Popeye’s flock. She a plump, beautiful little hen with shiny feathers. Her best friend is Walnut and they both stick close to Popeye all day long.