Meet Luna, Hermione, Ginny and Minerva. Four little white, cheeky, magical girls who we rescued from an intensive hatchery a month ago. These girls were hatched and then put in to a huge shed with some young roosters. They were bred to be the next generation of layers producing fertile eggs to be hatched for the cage, barn and free-range commercial egg industry here in Australia. When sexually mature, these pullets in the shed pictured, will be put in to huge sheds, which are divided up in to small sections where twenty hens are kept with one rooster. Their eggs are collected daily and sent to the hatchery to be incubated. These hens and roosters will live a short life because they will be slaughtered as soon as their egg production slows down (at 18 moths old). Then they will be sent to slaughter and replaced with new chickens waiting in the pullet sheds.
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Luna, Hermione, Ginny and Minerva escaped this fate and now live at Lefty’s Place. They are the sweetest little girls who love life so much. They are always talking to me and asking questions. Such beautiful little chickens who should not have to live a life of confinement because of our insatiable appetite for eggs.
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Named after Harry Potter characters in the hope that their lives will now always be magical.