re homing battery hens

[amalan11]

I get a regular email from a rescue centre called EDGARS MISSION,it seems a great place , they save farm animals.They are urgently looking for homes for battery hens that are going to be slaughtered next week .They are at Willowmavin in Victoria if anyone can help.Google Edgars Mission and go to their blog to see the details .I cannot help as im in NSW but im hoping some one here may like some hens :-x

[azureline**]

I can't help, just bumping for the chicks.

[happyroo_bunji]

I can't help either, my dog likes to "play" with chooks until they are dead.

Willowmavin is near Kilmore, so not too far from Melbourne

[crystal**flake]

Aren't they normally eaten.

[azureline**]

battery hens are for eggs, meat chickens are for eating.

[punch*drunk]

I opened the page and then closed it again when I got to the adoption bit where they want to know how much experience you've had with adopted chooks etc. It all just seemed to hard. I'd like to rescue some when we're ready to get them, but I'm not prepared to go through an adoption process and wait for approval, they're chooks, not kids.

[crystal**flake]

battery hens are for eggs, meat chickens are for eating.

My grand mother had chickens that layed eggs and she would eat them too.

[monstersinthedungeon]

Amalan, I also get the emails from Edgar's Mission. We need more hens, but sadly are up in Qld, so can't help.

We rescued six ex battery chooks about a year ago from a lady in Brisbane. It is very rewarding to see the poor chooks, who arrive almost bald and very timid, evolve into proper chooks.

Just watching them learn to scratch around for bugs, take a dust bath, everything that normal chooks are used to, but they have never before experienced in their life time, is a pleasure.

[cherry*135]

My grand mother had chickens that layed eggs and she would eat them too.

Grandma's hens would have been well feed and healthy. Our laying chooks ended up in the pot sometimes too.

Battery hens once the chicken farmer has no use for them, are scrawny and not healthy looking. They would not make good eating. I had some friends who took some of these hens home, they looked awful to start with.

[crystal**flake]

They need to go to god then.