Category Archives: Abattoir

Wonky Wobbles

Her official name is “Edith” after Edith in “Picnic In Hanging Rock”, but I actually call her “Wonky Wobbles 1” more than Edith because she seems to respond to it more! Wonky Wobbles was found with broken bones, emaciated, in shock, infected and dying in a crate at an abattoir waiting to be slaughtered. It…

Star

Star was rescued in late 2016 from an abattoir. She was in a crate waiting to be slaughtered the next morning. Why did I choose to rescue her over the thousands of other girls in those crates? I don’t know, but i am always asked this question. Sometimes I randomly choose, other times I take…

Red Robin

  Red Robin was rescued from the abattoir in October, 2016. She was completely emaciated, featherless and terrified.  She and her thousands of shed mates had been crammed in to the transport crates so tightly that there were dead hens everywhere. She came to Lefty’s with two of her featherless friends from the same crate,…

Cruskit

Rescued from the crates full of hens awaiting slaughter the next morning, Cruskit was pulled out of her crate emaciated and completely featherless. Her tiny little body quivered in fear and cold as she sat in the car waiting for her next chapter in life. She was so tiny. Such a small, little featherless life…

Celestial

Her head was down when we looked in to her transport crate at the abattoir last night. She looked squashed and nearly dead. We watched through the crate thinking she was dead, until she moved. It was a difficult crate to open, it was impossible to open actually. A bar stopped us from opening the…