Pippin was rescued from an intensive duck farm in early January, 2018. He was found at 2am on the outside of the filthy sheds, running up and down trying to get back in. How and why he was left out is not something I know the answer to, but I do know that he was…
Over the years, I’ve cared for and loved hundreds of chickens from caged egg layers, free range egg layers, dumped roosters, broiler chickens, tiny bantams, dominant Sussex hens, timid Leghorns and the list goes on. This has seen me experience so much joy, but also lots of sadness when they leave the world, but it…
Merry was rescued one hot summer’s night in January, 2018. She was 4 weeks old at the time and was meant to live in that faeces soaked shed until she was 7-9 weeks old when she would have been sent to slaughter for meat. Ducks are aquatic birds and live to swim, they clean themselves…
Legolas was just four weeks old, hatched on this free range duck farm and then thrown in to this shed to live for the next 7-9 weeks until slaughter. She dragged herself around that huge shed full of thousands of Pekin ducks all born and bred to be a meal. Her leg had suffered a…
Australia produces about 5 million turkeys each year and sales are at their highest in December. It is estimated 75 percent of turkeys farmed in Australia are slaughtered for Christmas day meals. Turkeys are intelligent, emotional birds who so desperately love their lives and want to live. They are big, stunning birds who are very…