The moon was full that night as we walked up the embankment towards the farm. Eight, huge sheds stood looming in the moonlight as we walked on to the property. This was a duck farm. Pekin ducks were crammed into these sheds. They lived on a floor covered with manure inches thick. They were never…
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…
I turned my light on and saw her on the left hand bottom side of that cage. She was shaking. She wouldn’t stop shaking. She was shaking even before I turned the light on. She was absolutely terrified. She made it out of that farm in a backpack. On the long way out my friend…
He was always trouble. From the first moment I saw him, I knew he was trouble. My beautiful, cheeky Trouble. The first boy to greet any visitors at the gate. The first boy to show you his huge personality. The first boy to race towards me when I call. The first boy to storm through…
In a sea of 60,000 white baby broiler chicks (chickens bred for meat) stood Hedwig. Her beautiful grey feathers shone out against the white chickens and her sweet face was full of innocence. At one week old she was already enormous compared to a normal chick. You see, broiler chickens are chickens selectively bred for…