Photo of Beaky by Emma Osborne According to recent media reports, Britain has gone from a nation of shopkeepers to a nation of chicken keepers. Some 700,000 of us Brits are apparently enjoying the delights of keeping hens. The British Hen Welfare Trust has had a hectic media...
Battery farming has a terrible effect on chickens. Photo of Charlotte on Rescue Day by Amy Chamberlain. A recent study by the University of Bristol’s Animal Welfare and Behavior Research Group has found that mother hens show signs of “clear physiological and behavioral...
Aubrey helping in the garden. Photo by Jo Barlow. Offering a home to ex-battery chickens brings us benefits on many levels: to the global environment by highlighting the impact of intensive farming, to our own immediate environment and of course to the health and welfare of...
Jo Barlow's chickens on rescue day. Photo by Jo Barlow. Countries both sides of the Atlantic are finally moving towards banning the barbaric intensive battery cage for chickens. In 1999, the Council of the European Union declared that battery cages were so cruel they were...
Free-range chickens make great helpers. Photo by Jo Barlow. I’m sorry. I left you on tenterhooks last week. Were the girls going to settle? Was Bella (aka Psycho Chicken) going to terrorize the more fragile members of the flock? Would there be bloodshed? Would I spend many...
Photo by beadmoki via flickr So, having researched and been horrified by the plight of the battery chicken, your decision to re-home some ex-batts has been made and the Grand Chicken Rescue Day approaches. But what started out as a great idea is fast becoming reality and...
Photo by libbykeatley via flickr Why Ex-Battery Chickens? A major part of being green, to me, is compassion. If we care enough about our beautiful, fragile planet to want to save it, then we should, in my eyes, care about all the creatures that make our world so...
