This is Amber. She came to live with us in May 2013. She was found on the floor of a cage egg farm who were sending their chickens to slaughter because they had reached the “spent” age of 18 months. Not long after her arrival, I was cleaning to coops and I looked up […]
Category Archives: Ex-Battery Hens
Jupiter
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. […]
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 […]
Marilla
Beautiful Marilla, she really was such a beautiful chicken. She was big and stood over everyone, yet she was so gentle and timid. I named her “Marilla” after the character in, “Anne of Green Gables” as she seemed like an old soul who was very practical and got things done without a fuss, and also […]