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 […]
Category Archives: Chickens
Vander
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 […]
Amber
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 […]
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. […]
Blackie
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 […]