“All yours, Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya!” She hid up the back of the cage, but even as we quickly walked by and flashed our lights on the cages, I saw her. I saw the tall, terrified girl up the back who looked like a sad old lady with one dead eye. The decisions on who to…
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…
Rebel Rebel, you’ve torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Rebel Rebel, I love you so She was named after a David Bowie song because that’s exactly who she is, she is a complete Rebel. When there’s a chicken on the wrong side of the fence…
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…
She was found on the floor of this farm in June, 2013. She would have been living on the floor for up to two weeks. The shed she was in had just been depopulated. Every 18 months, egg farmers send all their hens to slaughter because egg production in hens starts to slow down at…