Bill Jordan Foundation, is waging a battle against Battery Egg Production.

 

Local Restaurants Fight Back Against Battery Egg Production.



Zoe Brodie James, a volunteer for the Bill Jordan Foundation, is waging a battle against battery farmed eggs.

Battery Egg Production Facts:

Battery egg production is still a thriving industry. There are over 20 million battery hens in Britain alone currently laying cheap eggs for your benefit.

A battery hen enters a cage at just 20 weeks old and will remain in the cage for an average of 52 weeks before it is slaughtered and disposed of.

Each hen has less space than an A4 piece of paper in which to move around, leaving no room to flap and stretch, no means to dust bathe, no perch on which to roost and no nest to lay an egg in (they never actually see what they produce!). These things are an essential part of a hens normal behavior

Did You Know that 70% of eggs produced in the UK still come from battery hens?

Only 6% are produced by barn reared hens?

24% are produced by free range hens?

On average a battery hen lays a mere 15 more eggs a year than a hen that has been kept in barn or free range conditions.

A national charity, The Battery Hen Welfare Trust, has started an initiative to re-home battery hens that would otherwise be destroyed. Bournemouth based Zoe James, a volunteer for the Bill Jordan Foundation, has re-homed 25 ex-battery hens and is supplying local eateries with their eggs.

Jimmys Bar and Restaurant in Bournemouth and Gossips Brasserie in Canford Cliffs are delighted with their free range, organic, ex-battery hen eggs and cannot get enough of them. “These eggs produced by hens that have been rescued from terrible lives are fantastic, the quality of the eggs are outstanding and taste so much better than any battery farmed eggs we have used in the past and our customers love them”. Said Alex from Gossips.

Zoe said she can’t produce enough of them and is considering rescuing some more to keep up with demand. “The rescued hens are so happy and have a brilliant new life. They are free to wander around and display their natural behavior and have a natural diet which reflects in their egg production. The eggs are huge and many have double yokes.”

When the hens were first rescued many of them couldn’t walk, they were featherless and distressed and didn’t even know how to act like normal hens. They bounced back in days and are now fully feathered up and scratching about, free range and are very happy.”

She is delighted with the response from the local restaurants, “it’s great that they are supporting us, the more restaurants that agree to stop using battery farmed eggs, the more likely it is that this way of farming will be phased out in favour of a more humane method of egg production”.

The money from the eggs that are sold help towards the upkeep of the chickens and any profits made go directly towards the Bill Jordan Foundation to help endangered species throughout the world.

If you are interested in re-homing some ex-battery hens then log onto www.thehenshouse.co.uk.


Battery hen on the first day of rescue




Battery hen after re-habilitation.