Animal Place is about to welcome 1,000 hens from an egg farm and we need you to make it happen! Sign-up to help with health checks and ongoing care at our Vacaville, California shelter here.
Think cage free eggs are the answer? Organic sounds nice, but even ill hens can’t receive antibiotics. The sickest hens we have ever rescued—missing eyes, on permanent quarantine—came from an organic, pasture-based farm. The New York Times sheds some light on what “cage free” really means for hens.