Rescue & Adoptions

Past Featured Rescues

Angie

Angie and her friends were born to produce eggs. Victims of a profit-centered industry focused on efficiency as opposed to animal welfare, they were genetically engineered to lay far more eggs than they would in nature and housed in dark, windowless warehouses, instead of outdoors. Angie and her friends were just days old when farm workers painfully removed portions of their beaks and toes and crowded them into tiny wire "battery" cages.

Before arriving at Farm Sanctuary, Angie and her friends were never given the chance to feel sunshine on their backs or cool grass beneath their feet. They weren't allowed to walk or breathe fresh air, being stuck in windowless warehouses for their entire lives. They were hungry, dirty and suffering from severe feather loss. One hen had a badly misaligned beak, another had sustained an injury to her face and was blind in one eye, and Angie had more than 1/2 pound of matted feces and feathers caked to each of her legs. Two other hens found with Angie and her friends died before our staff could help them.

Sadly, what Angie and her friends experienced is not uncommon for egg-laying hens raised on factory farms in the United States. Every year, more and more American egg farms are turning into egg factories. More than 300 million layer hens languish within the walls of these factories each year and, today, more than 90 percent of the eggs eaten in this country come from hens housed in battery cages. The life of the typical egg-laying hen is misery from beginning to end. Each lives in confinement in the dark and lays egg after egg after egg, until finally her production levels drop. Only then is she freed from her cage. . .to be trucked off to slaughter.

Thankfully, Angie and her friends were rescued before they could be sent to the slaughterhouse. Once safe at Farm Sanctuary they settled in nicely, grateful for a new life of joy and freedom that they never expected to live.