Category Archives: Chickens

Ariel

They tried to find anything they could on the free range egg shed floor to eat….rocks, dirt, anything. Everyone else had been sent to slaughter. About 30 hens had been missed in the slaughter pick up. They were left with no water and no food. The shed doors were left open and foxes were coming…

Ursula

We found Ursula huddled up against the wall of the depopulated FREE RANGE egg farm shed. She was terrified and starving. The shed door had been left wide open and the remaining hens who had been missed when they sent the rest of to slaughter, had no food and no water. These forgotten hens huddled…

Violet

Violet was rescued from a manure pit underneath a huge battery cage egg farm in June 2013. She was completely and utterly stuck in the manure. She would have died there unable to move in the next couple of days. Sadly this happens to chickens all over the world in cage, barn and free range…

Prudence

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….

Dawn

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,…