She was rescued from a broiler (meat) factory farm in April, 2016. She was 6 weeks old and was living with tens of thousands of other hens in a huge shed with a floor covered with chicken poo inches thick. I grabbed her and put her under my jumper and left the farm. I took…
Meet Jane Eyre. Her past is fraught with suffering, not unlike Charlotte Bronte’s heroine. A backyard hen who was advertised on gumtree because she required vet care. Her owners were unwilling to spend the money to save her life. She had egg yolk peritonitis. My amazing friend saw her advertised on gumtree and grabbed her….
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…
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…
Meet Nanatoo (aka “Nipper”). Yes, you read that right -Nanatoo. The Mighty Boosh fans will be smiling but the rest of you might be a bit confused about the name. “Nanageddon” is an episode of the comedy series number 2 from “The Mighty Boosh”. It’s about Nanatoo, a Nana in a wig who is a…