Save the chicken's Today
Recently I found a website. That contained information that battery hens and chickens are going to be slaughtered if we as communities do not save them. I Decided I would write a petition I know there are a lot of signatures needed but other ways to save them are
- Protesting
- Petitions
- or we could adopt them
I have now written to over 3 different online and TV shows to ask them to help the chickens personally I think we can do it. Sign please and help the chickens they never did anything to hurt us also sign if you want the chickens and eggs to be free ranged. I am vegetarian.
Newsletter Report - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090508/tuk-wanted-homes-for-10-000-scraggly-hen-45dbed5.html
Campaigners are desperately trying to save 10,000 battery hens from slaughter and find them happy new homes instead. Skip related content
Related photos / videos Wanted: Homes For 10,000 'Scraggly' Hens Enlarge photoThe Little Hen Rescue charity hopes families will adopt the chickens as pets and help nurse them back to health.
The rescue bid began with the announcement that a battery farm is set to close, leaving its owner little choice but to kill any chickens without a home.
"He's given us a date - the slaughterman is booked for June 29," Emma Haines, who works for the organisation, told Sky News Online.
Hens can live for seven or eight years but are often killed when they are much younger, according to the charity.
Turning on the persuasion, Ms Haines said chickens can be the perfect recession pet as they are cheap to care for, help teach children about animals and many still produce eggs.
"They are easy to keep, all you need is a secure coop and a run.
"In urban areas, some people let them out of the run in the evenings."
She added: "They are scraggly and may not have many feathers but after a couple of months they are beautiful and glossy. They make wonderful pets."
All of the rescued hens are being rehomed with the co-operation of the farm owners.
The Norfolk-based charity believes the battery hen industry is down to consumer demand and is not the farmers' fault.
"The credit crunch is often used as an excuse for buying a cheap chicken, but it is cheaper to have your own hen and never buy another battery-farmed egg again," Ms Haines said.
Battery farming has become increasingly high-profile with celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall being among those who have spoken out against poor conditions.
Shops including the Co-Op, Sainsburys, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer have all agreed to phase out the use of eggs from battery farms.
Recently I found a website. That contained information that battery hens and chickens are going to be slaughtered if we as communities do not save them. I Decided I would write a petition I know there are a lot of signatures needed but other ways to save them are
- Protesting
- Petitions
- or we could adopt them
I have now written to over 3 different online and TV shows to ask them to help the chickens personally I think we can do it. Sign please and help the chickens they never did anything to hurt us also sign if you want the chickens and eggs to be free ranged. I am vegetarian.
Newsletter Report - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090508/tuk-wanted-homes-for-10-000-scraggly-hen-45dbed5.html
Campaigners are desperately trying to save 10,000 battery hens from slaughter and find them happy new homes instead. Skip related content
Related photos / videos Wanted: Homes For 10,000 'Scraggly' Hens Enlarge photoThe Little Hen Rescue charity hopes families will adopt the chickens as pets and help nurse them back to health.
The rescue bid began with the announcement that a battery farm is set to close, leaving its owner little choice but to kill any chickens without a home.
"He's given us a date - the slaughterman is booked for June 29," Emma Haines, who works for the organisation, told Sky News Online.
Hens can live for seven or eight years but are often killed when they are much younger, according to the charity.
Turning on the persuasion, Ms Haines said chickens can be the perfect recession pet as they are cheap to care for, help teach children about animals and many still produce eggs.
"They are easy to keep, all you need is a secure coop and a run.
"In urban areas, some people let them out of the run in the evenings."
She added: "They are scraggly and may not have many feathers but after a couple of months they are beautiful and glossy. They make wonderful pets."
All of the rescued hens are being rehomed with the co-operation of the farm owners.
The Norfolk-based charity believes the battery hen industry is down to consumer demand and is not the farmers' fault.
"The credit crunch is often used as an excuse for buying a cheap chicken, but it is cheaper to have your own hen and never buy another battery-farmed egg again," Ms Haines said.
Battery farming has become increasingly high-profile with celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall being among those who have spoken out against poor conditions.
Shops including the Co-Op, Sainsburys, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer have all agreed to phase out the use of eggs from battery farms.
LOVE HELP SAVE PROTECT HENS & CHICKENS
this isbsoloutely ridiculous chickens should not be cranned into cages just for eggs there are other ways to produce eggs
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Please help to save these beautiful, sensitive, innocent creatures !
We rescued 3 hens, they are now healthy and happy. Its so cruel and greedy to keep them caged.Its great the farms are closing, now we need to ensure they all have homes.
Please help us save the chickens.
Mother Nature will put an end to factory farming, the consequences are already out there. Have we not learned anything?
Give the poor hens a chance at happiness
I stopped eating meat because I couldn't support the killing of animals any longer. What goes on in the meat industry is horrible.. We have no right to treat the animals of this planet, like their lives ment nothing..
I have home 3 ex-bat. Wish I can have more, but garden is too small. They are very easy to care for, some chicken lover do fussed over them and make it looks difficult than it is. They are an addition to the garden scene with an egg from each hens almost everyday, so I get about 18-21 eggs per week.
J Sellen
Please help us save these hens. If you are in the UK and can offer a home to these hens between now and the end of June you MUST contact Little Hen Rescue who you can find by searching the internet.
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4:12 pm PDT, May 14,
Ed Driver, United Kingdom
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Free the chickens NOW! .. Free all animals now. End their suffering now. Simply STOP killing animals to eat the poor things. You know I had a pet chicken once. Her name was Rosie. She was beautiful and very smart. How she clucked when she layed an egg in excitement. She followed me around everywhere. ANIMALS the 4 legged type have far more feelings of compassion, kindness and LOVE more than over 90 percent of human beings. IT IS NOTED that it is MEN who treat animals this way and men still think of women as a lesser equal. BAN ALL MEN TOO while your at it from having jobs. Let them stay home permanently and let woman RUN and RULE things.
my dear neigbour got 5 chickens from battery hens place,they now have grow new feathers and heatlhy,lay eggs !I understand it well,SAVE ALL HENS !!they make good pets!!
