To many, a small backyard chicken flock conveys the image of an idyllic urban homestead — the very antithesis of the factory egg farm. But for nearly all backyard hens, life begins the same way it does for factory farmed birds, and it often ends much the same way as well.

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A trail of blood marked the path from the rescuer’s car to our Melrose Small Animal Hospital.

As Farm Sanctuary rescue workers entered the western New York property where Lila and dozens of others languished, they were nearly overwhelmed by the smell of death.

Late in the 2012 baseball season, New York Mets relief pitcher Tim Byrdak secretly brought a small feathered newcomer into the clubhouse — a chicken he claimed was sent by the Yankees to taunt Mets teammate Frank Francisco, who had been calling the Yankees “chickens” during a subway series run.

For egg-laying hens in commercial production, even those on “free-range” farms, life ends between the ages of one and two years.

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Mets chicken gets happy ending at Farm Sanctuary

A loose dog led a Livingston, California Animal Control officer to Belina.