For those of you who don't really take much time to think about the source of your food this is definitely the post for you... My parent's have recently "rescued" 8 hens from a battery farm to give them a new life with a lovely free range existence. The birds were about to be shipped off for slaughter to be made into god knows what after one year of intensive laying. Each hen cost 50 pence...! My mum went to collect the birds and had to experience first hand the conditions these birds are subjected to - 10,000 birds in one massive shed with 4 hens to a cage the size of an A3 piece of paper.
I thought it would be really positive to document the changes the birds go through as they adjust from chicken hell to chicken heaven. The birds now have freedom to roam across an acre of land and a safe warm place to shelter at night time. These are a handful of images I've taken just to record the state of the birds in the first few days of their arrival - hope that I'll be able to show some more happy healthy birds in a few weeks...
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