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Chicken Living Free
By nature, chickens are very active and curious creatures. If they have the choice, chickens like to live in small groups made up of one male and several females. Group members like to stick together and never travel too far away from their fellow chickens. When they are free to move around, chickens love to roam and scamper about. They can actually run pretty fast and can cover quite a lot of ground. Using their beaks and their feet, chickens explore the world the around them. Chickens use their feet to kick up the dirt around them. Once they uncover some tasty treats, they quickly snatch them up with their skillful beaks. One of a chicken's favorite things to do is to take dust baths. Covering themselves with dust actually cleans their feathers and keeps away little critters, called "parasites" that can make them sick. Chickens also like stretch out on the ground, spread their wings out wide and soak up the warm rays of the sun. Chickens are almost always chatting with one another and communicate by using several different kinds of clucks, squawks and crows. Known to perch on the shoulders and heads of favorite humans, chickens are very capable of making friends with people and other animals.
Mishito and her friends used to live in filthy, horrible battery cages. Sadly, no one really cared about them or how miserable they felt living in those tiny, terrible cages. In fact, they were only valued for the eggs they laid. Once they started to get a little older and stopped laying as many eggs, these chickens would have been killed. Fortunately, these beautiful animals were rescued and taken to live at our New York Shelter. At our sanctuary, Mishito and her friends have put the unhappiness of their past behind them, and now have a lifetime of freedom, friendship and kindness to look forward to. |
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