The farmer looked at me, Jim Beam and Coke in hand, and smirked whilst he said, “Yeah, the rest was butchered this morning’”. As he said this, there was a chill in the air. I looked at the little lamb eating tiny strands of brown grass he was trying to find amongst the junk yard…
In Greek mythology, Circe was a goddess of magic. She was known to turn her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals. Circe was angry and a little bit crazy, but was incredibly strong and powerful. Circe the hen is equally as angry and crazy, but for very different reasons. I can imagine Circe…
The moon was full that night as we walked up the embankment towards the farm. Eight, huge sheds stood looming in the moonlight as we walked on to the property. This was a duck farm. Pekin ducks were crammed into these sheds. They lived on a floor covered with manure inches thick. They were never…
She was rescued in January 2013 from a battery egg farm in Werribee, Victoria. She was never a girl who wanted to really get to know me and she went along with her life doing her chicken business without much chit chat to me, often not even a glance towards me and I was totally…
I turned my light on and saw her on the left hand bottom side of that cage. She was shaking. She wouldn’t stop shaking. She was shaking even before I turned the light on. She was absolutely terrified. She made it out of that farm in a backpack. On the long way out my friend…