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28/01/2023
These 4 beauties joined our party today.
Their human mom reached out on our sanctuary page last month as they are moving from their country property into town and can't have the hens there. She was quite stressed to have not found a home for them yet that wouldn't eat them.
At first I said no. Then we said yes lol.
This kind woman will come to visit her girls and said she feels so relieved that they have a new home. She also made a generous donation to our micro-sanctuary 💚
Astrid is the big, beautiful white Columbia Rock cross, and she is the boss 😉 Apparently they like to be out in the snow, as long as it's not windy 😊
22/03/2021
First day of Spring seemed like a good day for the Richard and Frankie the pigs to meet the ducks who have been crashing in their summer home - so far so good!
26/07/2020
It's a sad-happy day - I took Russell the super-sweet Cornish rooster to his permanent family. He'll be with several other Cornish hens, be maintained on a proper diet, and be able to run around in a horse stable with other critters. He'll be better off with them, but it's still hard to let him go - he was only here a month but most of us fell in love with him right away 🥰
26/07/2020
These 3 beauties are just over 2 weeks into their implants. They seem to be doing OK, snacking on watermelon is still a priority 😍 , but a closer look at Freyja reveals that their combs have become quite thin and less healthy looking and there are feathers around the yard. The girls are moulting! 🤨
16/07/2020
Richard is in fact a dead accurate weather-pig. I am stuck once again in the lean-to with the mares while the (welcome!) rain pours down 🤣
16/07/2020
If Richard is correct, we'll find out if Frankie's sunscreen has become permanent or not.
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What we are up to
Here at Helping Hens we focus on hens, and advocacy for farmed animals, but help any animal, farmed or domestic if we are able.
Our favourite thing is to acquire hens from factory farms. Guaranteed we will be offering them their first taste of the outside world.
We get to watch them take first steps on the ground that is not a wire cage bottom. We hold our breath as they discover the warmth of the sun on their face and skin for the first time and then collapse, fanning their wings and legs out to ensure maximum solar coverage. We watch them run, play and develop friendships with hens in an environment of freedom and peace for the first time. We do our best to support these beautiful creatures physically and emotionally so they can hopefully flourish and forget their horrific beginnings.
We feel so privileged to be part of this amazing process, which is both heart-warming and heart-breaking at the same time. As human beings, we have no right to inflict the conditions we do on these poor hens, or any other animal.
We also volunteer with a fantastic local cat rescue and so often have kittens or cats in cages or cruising through the barn as we help prepare them for adoption to suitable inside homes. On rare occasions it may be necessary to find a kind barn home for certain cats, but we avoid this as much as possible because of the risks involved to the cat.
We also have 2 horses, 2 (amazing) potbelly pigs, a few barn and house cats and a dog. We’ll give further details when we introduce everyone.
My spouse and I are not youngsters and are both still working. We do our best to provide a good life and care to the animals here. Time (and money) are the limiting factors so we keep our numbers low to ensure we can afford and care for everyone here no matter what is going on in our lives - overtime at work, sickness or injury, care of relatives, layoff, appointments, holidays - all the usual life stuff. Animals don’t know about that - they still need to eat and p**p, and be cleaned up after, multiple times a day, every day.
It’s important to also advocate for all the animals, especially farmed, whenever we can (bigger picture). There are so many ways we are failing as stewards for animals, and the agencies charged with speaking for them are completely failing as well, resulting in unspeakable and relentless suffering of massive numbers of animals, all the time. As such I strongly believe in veganism, my spouse is working on it, and we encourage others to do the same.
