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 […]
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Rhonda
Rhonda was carried into our property early 2012. She arrived with her friend, Blackie, and both had been kept in a small backyard in town for about a year to provide their caretakers with eggs. No longer wanted or needed, they were both welcomed into the Lefty’s Place flock. Rhonda is a beautiful Rhode Island […]
Fran
She was found on the floor of this farm in June, 2013. She would have been living on the floor for up to two weeks. The shed she was in had just been depopulated. Every 18 months, egg farmers send all their hens to slaughter because egg production in hens starts to slow down at […]
Angry
He arrived in early June, 2014 in a trailer with three of his Suffolk sisters. When he was let out into a paddock he looked wary. He looked scared, wary and angry….mostly angry. Angry came from a small Suffolk sheep breeder who no longer wanted his sheep. These lovely sheep were no longer wanted and […]
Bowie
Is there life on mars? We believe Bowie thinks so. We believe Bowie actually lives there in her mind. She is our odd bod chicken. Bowie was found starving to death in a free range egg farm in May, 2014. She had somehow escaped the hands of workers when they came into the shed and […]