Category Archives: Chickens

Luna, Hermione, Ginny and Minerva

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…

Extra Speckley

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…

Sunny Sunshine

In May, 2013 a little hen lay on the cold concrete floor of a huge shed. All she could see were the cages towering above her. Every now and again she saw men come in and grab her friends out of the cages. Her friends screamed and flapped their wings and a few fell on…

Oda Mae Brown

Oda May Brown found herself at an animal shelter in May, 2015. She and her best friend (Miss Hannigan) were surrendered due to their owners not being able to care for them anymore. Sadly, chickens are viewed as incredibly dispensable in our society when every single chicken is so special and so desperate to be…

Crazy In The Coconut

I picked her up at an animal shelter in Keysborough in early June 2015. Miss Hannigan and her friend had been surrended to the Australian Animal Protection Society shelter. Their previous owner could no longer care for them, so they were surrended to the shelter. When I went to pick them up, I knew straight…