By The Roadside

“By The Roadside” is a series portraying the animal road toll that we often drive past quickly, but very rarely look at for too long. Hundreds of thousands of animals are killed each year after being hit by motor vehicles on Australian roads Please, if you hit an animal, please stop your car and check…

Pisces

Pisces was found at abatoir in January, 2017. She was found in crates with thirty of her friends. It was quite baffling to us why these hens were at the abattoir as they were so young, only at point of lay age. All thirty were rescued and I kept three of these beautiful girls. Tow…

Walnut

Meet Walnut. She was rescued in early 2017  from an abattoir after being trucked from her cage egg farm home. She was stuffed in to the transport crate so tightly that she suffered two broken wings and a broken leg. She’s a small little lady who is still quite traumatised by her life in a…

Almond

Meet Almond. She is an Isa Brown who spent her life in a cage egg farm. She was ripped out of her cage, thrown in to a crate on a truck and driven to an abattoir to be slaughtered earlier this year. She was handled so roughly by workers that she suffered broken bones and…

Lavender

Lavender was one of the 74 hens rescued from an abattoir in August, 2016. She is a sweet little hen. She is so sweet that she reminds me of our beloved girl, Sweets, who we lost earlier in 2016. Lavender has found out that she loves many things in her new life, she especially loves…