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…
In the dark of the factory farm shed, the rescuers could smell only death. The shed was empty. All the chickens in this particular shed had been depopulated. What this means is the hens were at the end of their “productive egg laying life”. This happens at only 18 months of age. An entire…
In early February, 2013, the livestock saleyards were teaming with terrified animals, loud men and the stench of death. Amongst the sheep who were well enough to be purchased and sent on to be slaughtered, were the sheep who were not quite as strong, a little sickly or injured. Limpy was one of those sheep….
The hens at Lefty’s Place have been rescued from caged egg farms, from free range egg farms, from barn laid egg farms, from backyards and from abattoirs before they were scheduled to be slaughtered. Every one of these hens arrives in a state of shock, they are unable to work out what is happening to…