Category Archives: Ex-Battery Hens

Bathsheba

Meet Bathsheba. Rescued from a battery cage egg farm on Saturday morning, she is so excited about life. She has very little fear about her and approaches everything with a fierce independence and sees everything as a challenge. She is named after the character from Thomas Hardys’s novel, “Far From The Madding Crowd”. I’m very…

Judge Judy

At the farm where Sweets was found starving in a shed that had just been depopulated (where all the hens are sent to slaughter at 18 months old) we found this girl. She was hiding under the cages in a shed that was completely empty except for dead bodies and cages. The 80,000 hens in…

Rosemary

Beautiful Rosemary was rescued from a battery egg farm in Victoria in November, 2015. We chose Rosemary as we walked through that cage egg farm because she had pushed her body as far as she could through the bars to look at us. She was desperate to come with us, and so she did. She…

Marigold

Marigold was rescued from a cage egg farm in November 2015. There was something about her that made us stop whilst walking up and down the shed aisles. She is a beautiful looking hen and she also really loves humans despite all she’s been through. Marigold was looked after by my friend for many months…

Daisy Steiner

  Sweet Daisy Steiner came from Edgar’s Mission’s huge battery cage hen rescue in 2012. I picked her up with 11 other hens and they were homeward bound to Lefty’s Place. Daisy came out of her shell fairly quickly and she realised that her favourite thing in the world was dust bathing. In the first…