Judy Loveday was rescued in 2013 from a battery egg farm. She was found in the manure pit which is below the thousands of cages above it. This pit runs the entire length of the shed and can become metres deep in chicken manure. Chickens somehow get down into these pits from the cages above….
Willow was rescued from a cage egg farm in Pearcedale, Victoria in 2012. She had been taken out of the cage she had lived in for more than a year with 5 other hens and thrown unconscious onto a manure pile down below the cages. That’s how much they cared about her at that farm….
It was November 2014 and Rhonda the Rhode Island Red hen was broody again. All day she sat on her eggs with steely determination. Rhonda is a chronic brooder and we’ve watched her for many years sit on eggs in desperation to hatch them. We’ve always agreed not to let our animals breed as I…
Arwen is the princess of our flock. No one can deny her beauty. She is named after Arwen the elven princess in Lord Of The Rings because of her unparalleled beauty. Arwen has never really liked humans very much, she prefers to keep to herself and spend time with her chicken friends rather than with me….
The first thing I noticed was her comb, it was like a Queen’s crown, so I named her “Queen Victoria”. She mostly gets called “Queen Vic” or “Queenie”. She has always had a look of determination on her face, even when she first came out of her cage completely terrified, she still had her fierce…