Rescued chickens kitted out with handknit jumpers (sweaters)

This is a sweet story about how a Norfolk woman who rescued 1,500 balding battery chickens has had a woolly jumper knitted for each of them to protect them from the cold. many stressed out battery farm birds lose their plumage so Mrs Eglen turned to her local community in December asking for people willing to knit jumpers for the bedraggled birds. (link via telegraph.co.uk) If you would like to help out by knitting a jumper (pattern is on their website) or information about adopting a hen: Little Hen Rescue Centre See video of chickens in knitted jumpers Related post from my blog: Buffy the well dressed chicken

Buffy the well dressed chicken

Eggxellent chicken couture A feather-less battery hen has been given an extra layer to help it get through the cold winter days. A volunteer has knitted her a striped woolly jumper and now she is the star attraction at the rescue centre in Brent Knoll in Somerset. (link via itn.co.uk) Click on the link to watch a video showing the hen wearing her knitted jumper (sweater). Very cute! And I love the voice over at the end: "Some say it's an egg-celent outfit and others say, it's just too eggs-treme and it will never catch on." Read another article (via Metro) about the lucky hen: Buffy the chicken faces the bald truth Read more about the RSPCA Brent Knoll animal centre where Buffy, the featherless hen and other ex-battery hens are being cared for and re-homed. I've been thinking about adopting ex-battery hens - they are easy to keep in the back garden (yard) apparently. I like the idea of giving these poor hens a new home and a stress free life (and of course being able to collect fresh eggs!). I've found lots of information via The Battery Hen Welfare Trust website but I haven't made up my mind yet. Do you keep chickens? Have you adopted ex-battery hens? What advice would you share?