Horror Show September 27, 2009

Sept. 26, 2009–Horror Show
     The forty rescued battery hens are finally here!  On Wednesday, Iwent to a friend’s sanctuary (a friend who had arranged for a middleman to provide the hens), and filled my car with crates of frightened birds.  Before driving home I called and asked one neighbour to help unload, and then swung into another neighbour’s [...]

The Gang September 20, 2009

Sept. 20, 2009–The Gang
     On Thursday evening our gang of boys came out to get the coop ready for the battery hens, as they will be in school on the day the hens actually show up.  
     It is a fine balance trying to explain to the children where the hens are coming from and why [...]

Frost Beats the Bucket September 16, 2009

Sept. 15, 2009–Frost Beats the Bucket
     We have a new resident at the farm–a hen to preceed the fourty lay hens arriving next week.  Frost is a beautiful white broiler hen, who apparently fell off a slaughterhouse truck somewhere in the vicinity of farms who supply chicken to a certain fastfood chain.   A compassionate soul took [...]