Are you considering getting backyard chooks to help around the garden as well as for the fresh eggs? If you are in the Brisbane area please think about adopting from [b]The Battery Hen Adoption Project[/b] [file/] [file/] at www.homesforhens.net.

These poor ladies have been locked in a small cage all their lives but with a safe and caring home they will quite happily continue laying for many more years not to mention providing pest control great fertiliser and garden weeding services.

I brought 2 home in August and after a period of adjustment they are both doing well laying eggs and doing normal “chook things” like digging dust-bathing and eating worms and bugs. Yes they look a bit rough when you first collect them but they come good really quickly.

How ’bout it? Can you make a difference in the lives of a couple of hens? Think about it!