Wow. This article illustrates the law of unintended consequences. Who would have thought that a benign hot-air balloon would become a chicken’s mortal enemy?
Abbi Vincent-Lloyd said she lost 30 hens on days when balloons were flying low over her Herefordshire farm.
She claimed the stress of seeing the enormous balloons overhead [...]
Last weekend, Ellen DeGeneres hosted a star-studded event in Hollywood raising cash and support for Proposition 2 — a ballot initiative in California that would outlaw confining crates and cages used in the factory farming of hens, veal calves and pregnant pigs. “I think no one goes out of their way to hurt an animal,” [...]
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More than 600 battery hens which could have faced a trip to the slaughterhouse have been rehomed.
The 628 birds, which have reached the end of their productive laying life, were saved by the Scottish branch of the Battery Hen Welfare Trust.
They were collected from battery farms across Scotland and given to people [...]
A chicken called Honor stunned its owner when it turned from a hen into a cockerel.
The unusual ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos show how the Black Rock chicken has swapped genders over the past 12 months.
Owner Gill Whiteley originally thought the crowing she heard was from a nearby farm as she only kept hens. But when [...]
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Tender veal cutlets. Sizzling pork chops. Savory omelets.
For a growing number of Californians, these meals are sparking a moral conundrum: Should they worry about how animals lived before their products hit the plate?
California voters will answer that question in November with a new animal welfare ballot initiative. If passed, the measure would [...]
Opening her chicken coop one morning, Terri Strick hoped to find some fresh eggs from her hens.
Instead all she found was one - very full - fox, as well as an assortment of blood-stained feathers.
The creature, which she has nicknamed Basil, had already killed six of her chickens the week before. He returned [...]
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