Adopting ex battery hens on sunday!

[satay]

I have 20 ex battery farm hens (isa browns) they are great girls. When I first brought them home they would not leave their hen house for 2 weeks. Now I have had them about 18 months and they just act like any other chicken in the flock. I bought mine from a caged egg farm for $1 each other wise they turn them into dog food.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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To be more concise, hens kept in cages. "Battery" refers to a battery of cages. Not all farms keep hens in cages.

 

[Jessie_Jazz]

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The ones I'm getting are rescued from the battery farms by a charity. If they didnt get rescued they would be bought by a slaughter company and turned into I dont know what. The charity pays the farmer the same as they would have gotten from the slaughter house for the chickens and takes them to their adoption centre to be rehomed. They ask for a £2.50 donation per bird and are desperate to rehome all the chickens they get from each farm so they have room at their centre for the next lot of rescued chickens. Its completely legal - they dont break in and take them they just buy them from the farmer who doesn't care whether they go to slaughter or to new homes as long as he makes the money from them.

This type of thing happens quite a lot in the UK but the charity that I'm using make sure they rescue ALL the hens from the farm, not just the ones they think they can rehome immediately. So they quite often have birds with broken limbs or other problems that they will never be able to rehome. They rely on donations to home and feed these chickens for life.

 

[Highlander]

I spotted an advert in the local free ads paper last year. The farmer that owned the egg production facility advertised his for sale at 50p (75c) per hen as he was replacing all his for younger models. I took 44.

 

[beckt]

To all of you who have given those poor girls a loving home, you have hearts of gold.

 

[kidsnchicks]

Thats neat, here at least where I used to work, they don't sell them, they are just done when they get younger birds in. Wasn't implying that someone would steal them, they just don't have the option of selling them here.