In a sea of 60,000 white baby broiler chicks (chickens bred for meat) stood Colonel Eagle. His beautiful grey feathers shone out against the white chickens like a beacon in the ocean. At one week old he was already huge. You see, broiler chickens are chickens selectively bred for meat. The are selectively bred to…
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…
In May 2013, I visited a broiler chicken shed in Victoria. Broiler chickens are raised for meat and are killed at 5-7 weeks old. When I walked into this particular shed I was greeted with the usual sea of white broiler chickens. Their huge bodies at only a few weeks old all crammed in together…
Oh Lefty. How do I write about such a beautiful soul and do him justice? All I can do is try… One day in August 2011, two little wethers were dropped just inside our gate. The farmer mentioned that he had been calling one “Albert Einstein” because he was so smart and the other one…
On June 25th 2012, I met two little, four week old bundles of fluff. They had recently been rescued from an intensive chicken meat factory farm and were unable to walk, were covered in faeces and smelt of ammonia. They both looked up at me with their baby blue eyes, chirped and from then I…