Category Archives: Chickens

Skipper

Skipper. She is a little pocket rocket hen who loves life! She was found wandering around the streets of St Albans last year and taken in to my vet surgery. When her home couldn’t be found. I very happily went to pick her up. She now lives in the country, surrounded by mountains and space…

Red Robin

  Red Robin was rescued from the abattoir in October, 2016. She was completely emaciated, featherless and terrified.  She and her thousands of shed mates had been crammed in to the transport crates so tightly that there were dead hens everywhere. She came to Lefty’s with two of her featherless friends from the same crate,…

Cruskit

Rescued from the crates full of hens awaiting slaughter the next morning, Cruskit was pulled out of her crate emaciated and completely featherless. Her tiny little body quivered in fear and cold as she sat in the car waiting for her next chapter in life. She was so tiny. Such a small, little featherless life…

Whistler

She was rescued from an abattoir on the night of December 1, 2016. I met her the next day. My friends popped in, on their way to rehome the previous night’s rescue hens and we noticed that one of the poor, emaciated, featherless girls was struggling to breathe. She stood in the corner of the…

Celestial

Her head was down when we looked in to her transport crate at the abattoir last night. She looked squashed and nearly dead. We watched through the crate thinking she was dead, until she moved. It was a difficult crate to open, it was impossible to open actually. A bar stopped us from opening the…