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- 2012 Farm Tour at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary
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- WVBS – Falls Church, 2012
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That’s beautiful Deb. If only the people that eat turkeys and chickens would volunteer at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary. Every one of our ex-battery hens has not only their own distinctive personality (no surprise there) but also their own particular habits. One of our chickens, Maisey, even chases ball!
@Harry – there are a couple volunteers who are not even vegetarian, though I figure in time they will be! There are also a few big events every year and tours year round where a lot of people get to see and meet some of the animals and witness their personalities first hand…
They really are amazing, aren’t they? It’s so interesting the way they change and evolve over time too. I’d love t see Maisey chasing ball!
I hadn’t heard of A Gentle Place before, but it looks wonderful. If I ever manage to get enough vacation time to do the cycle tour of part of Tasmania that I’ve been dreaming about, I’ll have to stop and see your sanctuary!
This is awesome, Deb. Mabel, one of the chickens at Deep Roots Animal Sanctuary, likes to climb into a cat crate every day to lay her egg. The crate was never meant to be a permanent fixture, but she quickly made it her new egg-laying spot. Now she never misses a day.
Mabel recently got her own Facebook page so she could have her own blog (facebook.com/mabelthechicken). She hasn’t been real good about updating it very often, but hey, she leads a very busy life of scratching and dust-bathing. 🙂
Keep up the great work, Deb!
hi! I’m actually the person who rescued Opal from the slaughterhouse (well, from the highway in front of the slaughterhouse)…except we called her Chicken the Turkey at first. I just googled her name to see what I could find on her all these years later…and thank you for your blog 🙂 it’s wonderful to see picture of who she was lucky enough to become with all the love she received! Thank you ❤
suz,
I’m so glad you found my blog! Your/Opal’s story is such an amazing one, and one I can’t help but to think about often. Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting! But especially: thanks for stopping to help Opal that day.
Thought you might enjoy seeing this pic of Opal – it was at a Thanksgiving With The Turkeys event a couple years back, and she was just chilling, enjoying getting all the attention. Kids loved her, and she loved them right back!