In April, 2016 Marshmallow, the broiler hen, was rescued from an intensive meat chicken farm. She was rescued at 6 weeks old. She was scheduled to be slaughtered at 7 weeks old. She was rescued with two other broiler chickens that night, Constance and Spring, who both sadly died. This left Marshmallow without the broiler…
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…
She was found cowering up the back of a disgusting cage at a poultry sale in May, 2016. Being a tiny Frizzle hen, no one wanted her for their backyard slaughters. She had no meat on her. In the photo below, you can see Goblin at the back of the cage. She stood in that…
Peter Pan – a boy who can fly and never grows up. Peter Pan was found in a rubbish bin at a poultry sale on Tuesday morning. Found by two of my friends in a place where chickens are talked about as curry and soup. In a place where chickens are tied together by their…
Often in battery egg farms, we find hens walking around on the floor, out of the cages. We call them “floor girls”. How do those girls get out of the cages? We think they are taken out by workers who think they look ill. Perhaps the hens struggle and the workers drop them and then…