Simon was rescued in 2020 after a family who initially had tried to sell him off for Thanksgiving dinner.
Harvard â Not every house is a home, but for Rehana Mohammed-Smith, hers is a sanctuary for dozens of abused, neglected, and injured birds.While each bird is a special case, one in particular needs urgent careâSimon, the turkey in a wheelchair.Located over 60 miles north of Chicago, close to the Wisconsin border in Harvard, Rehana and her husband Joe are co-founders of Georgia's Place Bird Sanctuary. He built the wheelchair himself through trial and error and some PCV pipe.
Hatching A Bird Sanctuary Mohammed-Smith left her 16-year teaching career two years ago to pursue her dream of running the sanctuary full-time. A dream that first hatched after a class project in 2012.Students in her science classroom had asked to incubate chicken eggs. Only two of the six eggs hatched, and one survived.'It was this adorable little black chick, and I was like, this little person is so cute!'She named the chick George, only to find out later that George was a girl.
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