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…
In April 2013, we walked into one of the most disgusting farms we’d ever been too. Dead hens in most cages. Bald, terrified hens looking out at us with sad, scared, pleading and angry eyes. Dust from the bones of the dead in piles on the floor. Amongst these 80,000 girls in this one shed…
This is River. I call her “Little River” Rescued in late May, 2014 from a free range egg farm. River was starved and denied water for up to a week (maybe longer) Her many thousands of friends (and enemies) in that shed were sent to slaughter at 18 months old. River evaded capture and was…
Bobby Bob Bob was taken out of the tiny battery cage that she shared with five other hens and put into a car on her way to a new life in March 2014. Bobby was chosen to be rescued because of her extremely strange looking neck and face and she was obviously the most bullied…
In Greek mythology a phoenix is a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or reborn. As I held a small, almost dead hen in a pillowcase on my lap in the car, I could barely feel her breathing. I didn’t know if she’d make the trip home, let alone the next day, the next week or…