exactly the same for me- it's heartbeaking and I know it can only be worse for caged birds! Since working there and seeing what free range farms are really like I've refused to eat any eggs which aren't from chickens I know personally.
I can't believe they charge you for them! I can understand...
Thank you for your responses!
Thankfully my mother loves chickens as much as I do and I was actually the one at the farm telling her we couldn't take any more!
I ended up getting three (Jungle Jimmy, Tumble Timmy and Barbie!) and I put them in the chickens' house last night on a separate perch...
I have 6 ex-farm hens which I rescued from the not-so-free range farm I work on.. Problem is, each flock at the farm gets killed at the end of every year and naturally I really want to rescue more. I got ten last year, sadly four died in one month but for the last few months the remaining 6 have...