Sweet Daisy Steiner came from Edgar’s Mission’s huge battery cage hen rescue in 2012. I picked her up with 11 other hens and they were homeward bound to Lefty’s Place. Daisy came out of her shell fairly quickly and she realised that her favourite thing in the world was dust bathing. In the first…
What a rooster. What a huge, beautiful, impressive rooster. Vander moved in to Lefty’s Place in early 2012. I wasn’t looking for a rooster at the time, nor was I expecting one. One day J came home with a box, a distressed look and some words that went something like, “I couldn’t leave him there…
Beautiful Jupiter. I always thought she looked other worldly. I named her “Jupiter” because on one of the nights after we got her, you could clearly see the planet Jupiter up in the sky. …
Blackie came to us in early 2012 from a couple in town who no longer wanted their two hens. They were (of course) un-named, so J gave the black Australorp the most original name of, “Blackie” and her Rhode Island Red friend, “Rhonda”. You see, most people believe that chickens are dispensable. They believe that…
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…