Category Archives: In Loving Memory Of

Clara

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…

Hoppy

I picked up Hoppy and 11 other ex-battery hens from Edgar’s Mission in July, 2012.  Edgar’s Mission had rescued thousands of hens from a cage egg farm who was going out of business and the farmer agreed to let Edgar’s Mission rescue all of them. Hoppy was lucky enough to be one of them. She…

Mrs Appleyard

She came from a battery cage egg farm in Pearcedale, Victoria in late 2011. A farm whose sheds where so old they felt like they were haunted with the millions of souls of hens who had been trapped there all the decades past. She was so lucky. She was rescued. She came to Lefty’s Place…

Extra Speckley

I met her in early 2012. From that first day, I knew she was one of the cheekiest girls I’d ever know. Just a day out of the cage and she was exploring places no one dared to go. She grabbed on to her freedom and ran with it. You see, Extra Speckley  had lived…

Anne Shirley

She was rescued in January 2013 from a battery egg farm in Werribee, Victoria. She was never a girl who wanted to really get to know me and she went along with her life doing her chicken business without much chit chat to me, often not even a glance towards me and I was totally…