Spring was found on the ground of a intensive meat chicken farm. She was found in a shed full of about 60,000 chickens of 6 weeks old who were nearly ready to be slaughtered. Spring was huddled on the ground unable to move. She was half the size of all the other chickens and was…
She was found in a broiler chicken intensive farm like this, writhing around on her back, unable to get up. She was about 6 weeks old and nearly ready to be slaughtered for meat. Her legs could no longer support her huge body and she could no longer stand up on them. She had lived…
Meet Jane Eyre. Her past is fraught with suffering, not unlike Charlotte Bronte’s heroine. A backyard hen who was advertised on gumtree because she required vet care. Her owners were unwilling to spend the money to save her life. She had egg yolk peritonitis. My amazing friend saw her advertised on gumtree and grabbed her….
Meet Bathsheba. Rescued from a battery cage egg farm on Saturday morning, she is so excited about life. She has very little fear about her and approaches everything with a fierce independence and sees everything as a challenge. She is named after the character from Thomas Hardys’s novel, “Far From The Madding Crowd”. I’m very…
At the farm where Sweets was found starving in a shed that had just been depopulated (where all the hens are sent to slaughter at 18 months old) we found this girl. She was hiding under the cages in a shed that was completely empty except for dead bodies and cages. The 80,000 hens in…