Category Archives: Factory Farming

Constance

She was found in a broiler chicken intensive farm like this, writhing around on her back, unable to get up. She was about 6 weeks old and nearly ready to be slaughtered for meat. Her legs could no longer support her huge body and she could no longer stand up on them. She had lived…

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…