Battery Hen Rehoming

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Reading an article in my magazine about rehoming battery hens reminded me of my friend who decided to rehome 12 battery hens. One person said, “those hens are bred to be in batteries they’ll never get to act like proper hens, they don’t know how.” My friend just looked at him.
The day arrived & the hens came in a crate with slats, so they could breath, poor creatures, they were scrawny, had hardly any feathers & looked shell shocked.
We took them out one by one & put them in the grassy chicken run.
My friend put food in the feeder & they had water. At first they just stood gazing around in surprise. We left them to it.
I went back to her house a week later & the hens were scratching around chucking to each other & looked so much better, the following week they all had feathers & were running around like proper chickens. It took a bit longer but they started laying as well.
I wish we could have got that man to see them, he’d have had to change his mind.

This is the link if anyone would like to rescue hens.

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Thanks for posting that Tiffany … I had absolutely no idea this organisation existed or that so many millions of hens were slaughtered each year purely because they’d lost their commercial value.

Makes humanity seem a sick creature in comparison doesn’t it.

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My mother was friendly with people in a farm down the road.They decided to start having battery hens instead of the free range they had…And she never spoke to them ever again. :grinning:

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Thank you for answering, Morticia.

I wouldn’t have either, in fact I’d have demonstrated against it, Psmith.

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Its goin to be hard, re-educating those bargain bucket fans!

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Don’t think they are only used for that. Battery hens eggs are probably in every cake, biscuit & any product that is mass produced & uses eggs,