When I first saw her, her little body was squashed up against the cage and her long bottom beak and roughly cut shorter top beak jutted through the bars to her neighbours cage. She looked frightened and worried. Her little face told a story of fear and sadness. It’s hard to pick the girls I […]
Category Archives: Ex-Battery Hens
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 […]
Sunny Sunshine
In May, 2013 a little hen lay on the cold concrete floor of a huge shed. All she could see were the cages towering above her. Every now and again she saw men come in and grab her friends out of the cages. Her friends screamed and flapped their wings and a few fell on […]
Violet
Violet was rescued from a manure pit underneath a huge battery cage egg farm in June 2013. She was completely and utterly stuck in the manure. She would have died there unable to move in the next couple of days. Sadly this happens to chickens all over the world in cage, barn and free range […]
Prudence
Prudence was found completely stuck in a shed full of manure in November 2013. She could not move at all. She would’ve died there, like thousands before her over too many years. You see, battery egg farms often have Manure Pits. They are underneath the sheds and this is where all the chicken manure goes. […]