She was rescued in January 2013 from a battery egg farm in Werribee, Victoria. She was never a girl who wanted to really get to know me and she went along with her life doing her chicken business without much chit chat to me, often not even a glance towards me and I was totally […]
Category Archives: Ex-Battery Hens
Matilda
She was so very tiny. The smallest, skinniest and most featherless hen in that particular cage. She was terrified when that cage door opened and two hands reached in and grabbed her, but she didn’t know how lucky she was. 16 months of living in that tiny wire cage with 5 other hens was now […]
Amy Pond
Amy lived like this for the first 16 months of her life. She could barely move. She couldn’t stretch her wings. All she could feel beneath her was the wire cage. One crisp night in April, 2013 changed all this for her forever. We rescued 17 hens that night and Amy was one of them. […]
Elliot
In April 2013, we walked into one of the most disgusting farms we’d ever been too. Dead hens in most cages. Bald, terrified hens looking out at us with sad, scared, pleading and angry eyes. Dust from the bones of the dead in piles on the floor. Amongst these 80,000 girls in this one shed […]
Honks
She came from this egg farm. She was featherless, emaciated and so very angry. She’d lived in that place for nearly 18 months. That night, I took her and three of her friends home. Two months later, this entire shed was sent to slaughter at only 18 months old. They were denied of food for […]