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…
Magic was rescued from the same backyard breeder as Amalthea, both were sick. Amalthea had a respiratory infection and Magic had an impacted crop that was so huge that is was impossible for a person to not see something was wrong. Magic’s crop was full of grass and it was blocking her crop and stopping…
Amalthea was rescued from a terrible backyard breeder back in October, 2016. She was very sick with a respiratory infection and very wary of people. She is a lavender turkey who looks like she is from a magical planet beyond our understanding and for that reason I named her, Amalthea, after the character in “The…
“Oh come all without, come all within You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn Come all without, come all within You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.” Bob Dylan’s character, “The Mighty Quinn” was an Eskimo who changed despair into joy and chaos into rest, and attracted attention from all the animals. Lefty’s…
Whilst I watched a full grown terrified turkey be lifted up by her feet and auctioned off for almost nothing, this little turkey baby was cowering in her cage behind me. Her and her brother were in that cage waiting for their turn to be auctioned off for meat. This poor, sweet, sick little girl…