Moonshadow. She was rescued alongside Moonlight the night before the Supermoon back in November, 2016. She was found wandering around the abattoir transport crates that were filled with hens. She had escaped the crate she was in somehow and was wandering around looking for water and food. I managed to grab her and so began […]
Category Archives: Chickens
Dreamer
“You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one” – John Lennon What was she dreaming of whilst she lay there unconscious, battered, crushed, bruised and bleeding. Was she dreaming of a freedom she never had? Was she dreaming […]
Miss McCraw
This is Miss McCraw. She is named after the stern old school teacher in one of my all time favourtie books and film, “Picnic At Hanging Rock”. She’s a fairly serious hen who is always sizing everyone up. She is a fairly new resident who was surrendered by a woman who was desperate to find […]
Storm
It was pouring on the drive to the abattoir. It was pouring when I walked in to the abattoir. It was pelting down as I took my camera out from under my jacket to start taking photos. The storm that night was just starting. I walked past her in the crate a few times. I […]
Persephone
She was found one chilly September evening, clinging to life in a transport crate at the abattoir. Having spent 18 months in a battery cage, laying one egg a day for consumers, she then ended up in a crate waiting for death when she was no longer deemed “profitable”. She had her head trapped in […]