The quail industry in Australia is thriving; farmers can’t keep up with demand. Quail eggs and meat are highly sought after delicacies. Quail is the largest game bird industry in Australia with 6.5 million quail slaughtered each year with a value of over AU$35 million. Quail are a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant […]
Category Archives: Factory Farming
Wonky Wobbles
Her official name is “Edith” after Edith in “Picnic In Hanging Rock”, but I actually call her “Wonky Wobbles 1” more than Edith because she seems to respond to it more! Wonky Wobbles was found with broken bones, emaciated, in shock, infected and dying in a crate at an abattoir waiting to be slaughtered. It […]
Cruskit
Rescued from the crates full of hens awaiting slaughter the next morning, Cruskit was pulled out of her crate emaciated and completely featherless. Her tiny little body quivered in fear and cold as she sat in the car waiting for her next chapter in life. She was so tiny. Such a small, little featherless life […]
Marshmallow
She was rescued from a broiler (meat) factory farm in April, 2016. She was 6 weeks old and was living with tens of thousands of other hens in a huge shed with a floor covered with chicken poo inches thick. I grabbed her and put her under my jumper and left the farm. I took […]
Spring
Spring was found on the ground of a intensive meat chicken farm. She was found in a shed full of about 60,000 chickens of 6 weeks old who were nearly ready to be slaughtered. Spring was huddled on the ground unable to move. She was half the size of all the other chickens and was […]