Got my girlies!!!!

[English Chick]

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Just plain Warrens, used extensively here in the UK by large scale egg producers. They are all quite characters, make me smile with their antics!

 

[English Chick]

My poem has been acceoted by the Hen Welfare Trust and is being printed in their magazine...whoooopppppppp yeahhhhhh - does that make me an "author" LOL

 

[greyfields]

Good job there. Battery chicken 'rescue' has never caught on in the US. I think people would rather have cheap chicken in their deep fried burritos from petrol stations than think about the issue.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Thanks for taking them in, EC
Your poem...

Glad it's being published.

 

[English Chick]

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Get a campaign started Greyfields....thats how it has all come about here,

 

[English Chick]

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Thank you Spotted Crow...... am working on another called "We are Free" its albout a really baldy battery hen of mine, but what a character she is.

 

[greyfields]

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Get a campaign started Greyfields....thats how it has all come about here,

This is a hard one for me. We adopt retired racing greyhounds, so I understand the human need to 'rescue' things from injustice.

On the other hand, they are chickens. I love my birds and all my livestock... but, well, I think for all they've been put through I'm not sure extending their lives is humane or not. The psychological damage must be immense. But, I just say this as my wondering, you obviously feel passionately the other way.

 

[pdsavage]

Not just any author but a published author.

 

[setter4]

I know a young woman who I would count as a friend of mine. She shows dogs with us and is a sweet caring person. She graduated last year from Penn State with a degree in animal science specializing in chickens.
She took a job with Perdue and she spends her days inspecting HUGE farms and making sure the conditions ok and that the birds are not sick.
She told me this week end that some of the farms she inspects have over a MILLION birds!!
I just can't understand how she can do this job and not think about puppy mills, etc. I guess she has compartmentalized the chickens away from the animals she loves and cares for.
I don't feel the same way about my hens as I do about my dogs but I sure as heck don't want to visit a place where there are 3 stories of cages with a million birds in them!
Congrats on your publication EC!

 

[smom1976]

I would have loved to have adopted x battery hens.. skip the 20 plus weeks of waiting.. shirley they would have layed at least one egg.. maybe not peak productions but at least one...

not to mention the good feeling of a rescue.

I dont believe we have any egg farms here near pensacola.