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This chicken is one of a large flock of battery hens that has been rescued and given a new lovely life scratching around at Dunham Massey...the aim is for the chickens to fertilize the ground ready for a new Rose Garden that will open in 2013, and the chickens will then be cared for in another place. When they arrived they were almost unrecognisable as chickens, and now they are simply beautiful!! I wish the same could happen for all these maltreated birds.....

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Oct 04 2011 07:59 GMT marijke06

....life will be wonderful there for the chicken boys and girls....

Oct 04 2011 08:14 GMT hallo

You have very kind heart Bandsix!

Oct 04 2011 09:45 GMT linnywv PRO

A new life! Wonderful!

Oct 04 2011 11:21 GMT skyball

Freedom at last!!. nice catch barbara!!!!!!

Oct 04 2011 12:56 GMT bandsix

They certainly seemed to be enjoying it Marijke, scratching around in the soil and having dust baths..they must be very happy I think....!

Oct 04 2011 12:59 GMT bandsix

I can't understand how anyone can be deliberately cruel to any living thing, hallo, and battery hens have an appalling life.....it upsets me very much.....When my friend moves in next door, we are hoping to 'adopt' some ex-battery hens...she has already bought a book on keeping chickens in readiness :)

Oct 04 2011 12:59 GMT bandsix

My sentiments exactly !!

Oct 04 2011 13:00 GMT bandsix

Thanks Geoff....not the best photo in the world, but the best possible outcome for these feathered lovelies!

Oct 04 2011 13:52 GMT Annamaria

They have a good life now....;-))

Oct 04 2011 13:53 GMT wijnie58

Very great picture Barbara.!! And now the eggs.

Oct 04 2011 17:27 GMT bandsix

yes, thank goodness!

Oct 04 2011 17:32 GMT bandsix

Apparently they are very good layers, because that is all they have ever done.....they use the eggs in the restaurant on site :))

Oct 04 2011 18:07 GMT elsje323

great to see they have a good life now and in the future

Oct 04 2011 18:08 GMT bandsix

It certainly is Elsje, thank you...:)

Oct 04 2011 21:45 GMT ForestSpirit

Wonderful that these poor chickens have been rescued, Barbara, and that you and your friend are intending to adopt some too! Couldn't agree more with what you say about cruelty - totally incomprehensible to me.

Oct 06 2011 20:41 GMT martini957

So very sad...happy to know that there are you & other folks out there who dare to care and are doing something about it too.....I'll never understand the hearts of people who mistreat other human beings and animals too : (

Oct 06 2011 21:19 GMT bandsix

We just need more people to really care about other living things, and each other...wouldn't that be good?.....:))