Friday, 15 July 2011

All Fluffed Up

Nothing much has happened with the brood today so I'm going to tell you about Helen.  She came to us in December with virtually no feathers and I was told that I'd be lucky if she survived the week.  Her bottom was so red raw that I had to put vaseline on it when she went out in the cold.   Here are some before and after shots - see what a little TLC can do?



The British Hen Welfare Trust have rescued over 250,000 hens and tens of thousands are still kept in the most hidious conditions.  Within the next couple of years battery chicken farming should be a thing of the past and thankfully well known companies including Mr Kipling, Waitrose and M&S are now only using free range eggs in their products.  This is the same chicken in both photos - would you prefer to eat her eggs then or now?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

OMG this is the best blog yet!!
How can anyone even think of eating
battery eggs. They must be sick if they give so little thought for another life forms existence. And what is the difference, bottom line 25p for half a dozen, give up half a cigarette to change a creatures life.