Springing Susie
1,300 hens saved from being gassed and trashed
Get ready to welcome 1,300 precious hens to our shelter and adoption center this weekend (April 2-3, 2016).
We have not met Susie yet. For the past year and a half, she has lived in a cage with a dozen other hens. Her beak was mutilated. Her feathers have been battered from rubbing against wire walls. She is ready for freedom.
In California the majority of white Leghorn hens are gassed and their bodies trashed in landfills. Read an eyewitness account of hen gassing.
Be a part of Animal Place’s next large rescue! As the only sanctuary in the nation that regularly performs large-scale rescues directly from farms, we rely heavily on our volunteers and supporters to make these massive rescues possible. For our next rescue - Springing Susie - we need you!
The 1,300 hens will be joining 500 hens saved from a free-range farm earlier this year and 7 roosters.
This rescue brings the total number of lives saved since August 2010 to more than 20,000!
How You Can Help:
Apply to adopt! We may save the hens from death, but our adopters are the real heroes - they give each hen a life of love and compassion. Even better, the adopters are changed by their experiences with adopted hens. Many reduce their consumption of animal products, stop buying eggs commercially, and start feeding eggs back to the birds as a way to help these hens recover calcium lost from laying too many eggs. We love our adopters!
Volunteer with the hens! It takes a village to help care for nearly 2,000 animals! Sign up today to volunteer in VACAVILLE, CA at Animal Place's Rescue Ranch adoption center!
Go egg-free! Share Rosie's rescue and encourage your family, friends, colleagues, random people on the street that egg-free is cool and kind. Learn why the commercial egg industry (including hatcheries supplying chickens to the backyard chicken movement) are terrible for the birds.
1,300 hens saved from being gassed and trashed
Get ready to welcome 1,300 precious hens to our shelter and adoption center this weekend (April 2-3, 2016).
We have not met Susie yet. For the past year and a half, she has lived in a cage with a dozen other hens. Her beak was mutilated. Her feathers have been battered from rubbing against wire walls. She is ready for freedom.
In California the majority of white Leghorn hens are gassed and their bodies trashed in landfills. Read an eyewitness account of hen gassing.
Be a part of Animal Place’s next large rescue! As the only sanctuary in the nation that regularly performs large-scale rescues directly from farms, we rely heavily on our volunteers and supporters to make these massive rescues possible. For our next rescue - Springing Susie - we need you!
The 1,300 hens will be joining 500 hens saved from a free-range farm earlier this year and 7 roosters.
This rescue brings the total number of lives saved since August 2010 to more than 20,000!
How You Can Help:
Apply to adopt! We may save the hens from death, but our adopters are the real heroes - they give each hen a life of love and compassion. Even better, the adopters are changed by their experiences with adopted hens. Many reduce their consumption of animal products, stop buying eggs commercially, and start feeding eggs back to the birds as a way to help these hens recover calcium lost from laying too many eggs. We love our adopters!
Volunteer with the hens! It takes a village to help care for nearly 2,000 animals! Sign up today to volunteer in VACAVILLE, CA at Animal Place's Rescue Ranch adoption center!
Go egg-free! Share Rosie's rescue and encourage your family, friends, colleagues, random people on the street that egg-free is cool and kind. Learn why the commercial egg industry (including hatcheries supplying chickens to the backyard chicken movement) are terrible for the birds.