As an Iowa farmer scaled down operations, he took the rare step of giving chickens away. Rescue groups swooped in.
The two groups ultimately rescued 61 hens. Some will be transferred to other sanctuaries.sent two planes to pick up about a thousand of themOther people showed up to take birds back to their own farms or to keep as backyard chickens. The farmer also decided to keep about 10,000 out of his original flock, Holt said.“They’ve perked up. They’re a lot more active. They roam around. They’re acting like real chickens. They’re taking dirt baths,” a favorite pastime of chickens, Camp said.
“They’ll just lay on the ground ... to get that cool dirt all over themselves,” he said, adding, “It was really neat to see that with these birds ... because they’ve never been in dirt before.”But both Holt and Camp expressed sadness at the toll the pandemic has taken on animals. “It’s heartbreaking,” Holt said. “We can’t save them all. There are not enough homes at sanctuaries to house all of the animals who are raised in confinement at these [concentrated animal feeding operations] and large facilities. They call it ‘depopulation’ but it’s hundreds of thousands of animals ― pigs, chickens, cows ― being killed.”
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