They call it “livestock transport”, when what it really is is as many animals pushed on to a truck as possible with no care about the weather conditions or the duration. 2 degrees or over 40 degrees, animals bred for food are still forced on to trucks and made to endure long trips to abattoirs…
When I first saw her, her little body was squashed up against the cage and her long bottom beak and roughly cut shorter top beak jutted through the bars to her neighbours cage. She looked frightened and worried. Her little face told a story of fear and sadness. It’s hard to pick the girls I…
“All yours, Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya!” She hid up the back of the cage, but even as we quickly walked by and flashed our lights on the cages, I saw her. I saw the tall, terrified girl up the back who looked like a sad old lady with one dead eye. The decisions on who to…
Meet Luna, Hermione, Ginny and Minerva. Four little white, cheeky, magical girls who we rescued from an intensive hatchery a month ago. These girls were hatched and then put in to a huge shed with some young roosters. They were bred to be the next generation of layers producing fertile eggs to be hatched for…
I met her in early 2012. From that first day, I knew she was one of the cheekiest girls I’d ever know. Just a day out of the cage and she was exploring places no one dared to go. She grabbed on to her freedom and ran with it. You see, Extra Speckley had lived…