Prudence was found completely stuck in a shed full of manure in November 2013. She could not move at all. She would’ve died there, like thousands before her over too many years. You see, battery egg farms often have Manure Pits. They are underneath the sheds and this is where all the chicken manure goes….
We found her in April 2013, huddling under the towers of the battery egg cages. She stood there standing amongst the bodies of other hens who had died of starvation on the ground. The bodies who had slowly turned to dust surrounded her. She could have ended up on the floor in a few ways,…
Just before I caught the train back to Melbourne that day in May 2014, I had a quick walk around the small monthly market by the river. Along with the soap stalls and jam stalls was a poultry stall. Ducks, guinea fowl, roosters, hens all standing in small cages on the ground without any food…
Retro came from Edgar’s Mission’s 2012 huge chicken rescue, “Chicken Run”. 1,500 hens were rescued by Edgar’s Mission from a battery egg farmer who had a change of heart ( read about it all here www.edgarsmission.org.au/8073/chicken-run-2012-australias-largest-farmed-animal-rescue ) I adopted 12 hens from Edgar’s Mission that year and Retro was on of those hens. Retro was…
She came from a Werribee battery egg farm. She had served her 18 months in a tiny cage with 5 other chickens and was sent to the room where they sell “spent” hens to the public for things like soup. She waited in a cage in that room with thousands of other hens. The room…