These lucky girlies have gone to Kettering community project, they have one beautiful house & area to be free at last in They were in a battery cage this morning.....now look at them I'm going to sponsor a couple of hens for them, this is how they make some pennies, they grow veggies to sell & the spare eggs too, it is a reallly brilliant cause & hopefully if Dave gets my e-mail & I'm not too late, Barclays bank have offered to sponsor them some Aylesbury ducks, so hopefully they can have some ducks too so 20 ducks please Dave
This is how the community project works, they generate in income through sponsorship of their pets & they then grow veggies to sell...brilliant
One thing that springs to mind is that those girls look remarkably well feathered as did my ones from last July. I think that maybe conditions are improving - don't get me wrong as I hate the thought of any caged animal.
They were good today Anna, then the next rescue catches you out & they are dreadful, you sort of wait with baited breath really, to see what turns up. Briiliant job agai done by Robert Linda & Lisa I take my hat off to them, I really do This is a community project for the local residents, it's called the "green patch project", if you google that if your interested, you get a really good pdf file on what they do, I think it's brilliant & so do the hens. We chatted to the project manager & I left on a real natural high today, you know that feel good factor you get, well we had it by the bucket load, I think the thinking behind this site has an awful lot in common with the reasoning behind this, it's really good educational tool.
& all this is because some FREE AT LAST ex batts were homed to one person who happened to mention it to another & his whole snow ball effect happens
I suggested a similar thing to Allotments. Like one plot for Chicken Runs, then the Allotment plot holders could look after someone elses if that person had a holiday or was sick etc.
But, brilliant concept - slowly but surely, the communial green thinking is creeping in.
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What a good way to teach people what kind of life a hen should enjoy, so that they can see that the cruelty of battery farming matters.
Maybe they could display some of Richard's 'before' posters, along-side the living 'after' display.
Same goes for ducks, I've heard that the ducks sold for roasting in supermarkets suffer as badly as broiler hens, or worse as they have no water to splash in and enjoy natural behaviour.
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I was impressed I must admit, i think they have a couple of these around the country, but I can't be totally sure on that one.
17 chooks is a lot of lives saved in my book, so i said I'd sponsor a hen or two for them, it's such a good cause.
They have 2 acres which the council let them have for nothing, so it is all polly tunnels & rows & rows of veggies all planted up & already they may have a home for some new chooks...it's a small world.
I take my hat off to you, Melons. You are doing an absolutely brilliant job looking after the welfare of these birds. Fantastic, you are a proper Mother Hen Ilona
