In a sea of 60,000 white baby broiler chicks (chickens bred for meat) stood Colonel Eagle. His beautiful grey feathers shone out against the white chickens like a beacon in the ocean. At one week old he was already huge. You see, broiler chickens are chickens selectively bred for meat. The are selectively bred to…
Rhonda was carried into our property early 2012. She arrived with her friend, Blackie, and both had been kept in a small backyard in town for about a year to provide their caretakers with eggs. No longer wanted or needed, they were both welcomed into the Lefty’s Place flock. Rhonda is a beautiful Rhode Island…
Is there life on mars? We believe Bowie thinks so. We believe Bowie actually lives there in her mind. She is our odd bod chicken. Bowie was found starving to death in a free range egg farm in May, 2014. She had somehow escaped the hands of workers when they came into the shed and…
She was so very tiny. The smallest, skinniest and most featherless hen in that particular cage. She was terrified when that cage door opened and two hands reached in and grabbed her, but she didn’t know how lucky she was. 16 months of living in that tiny wire cage with 5 other hens was now…
Amy lived like this for the first 16 months of her life. She could barely move. She couldn’t stretch her wings. All she could feel beneath her was the wire cage. One crisp night in April, 2013 changed all this for her forever. We rescued 17 hens that night and Amy was one of them….