Chickens Get Cold In The Winter Too, So This Woman Knits Sweaters For Them
by N/A, 9 years ago |
2 min read
A UK woman has found a unique and adorable way to help rescued chickens.
Check out this awesome story of a woman's love for rescued chickens
This is Nicola Congdon, a 25 year old woman from the UK. She's been knitting sweaters for battery chickens with her mother, Ann.
Occasionally, the battery chickens are rescued and given freedom. These chickens have difficulty acclimating to weather outside of their battery cages. So Nicola and her mother came up with a solution.
Knitting sweaters for them! Look how cozy the chickens are now. They have difficulty adjusting to cooler climates because they typically lose feathers while housed in their battery cages.
Battery chickens are the poor chickens who are housed in cages for the mass production of eggs or meat.
They spend their lives living in dirty, miserable conditions.
This chicken is my favorite.
Is that David Bowie from Labyrinth?
By knitting these sweaters in her kitchen over a period of several months, Nicola is giving the rescued chickens the ability to adjust to cooler temperatures and behave like "natural" chickens again.
She's even been getting overseas requests for the sweaters, which you absolutely can buy. But instead of payment, Nicola asks for a donation to be made to a South African AIDS orphanage.
What a kind deed!
Just look how pleased and chicken-like the chickens look.
Yay for happy chickens!
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