Spring has sprung and Trixie wants some particular enrichment throughout flock-down.
You may be asking, “what’s flock-down?”
In 2022, an avian influenza outbreak devastating wild & home birds in Europe made its method to North America.
Since then, greater than 80 million home birds and thousands and thousands of untamed birds have died or been killed because of avian influenza. As a result of the fatality charge is sort of 100% in chickens and turkeys, and state officers usually mandate all birds in an contaminated flock be killed, we selected to take extraordinary precautions to guard our beloved feathered mates.
For the previous two years, the birds have been stored indoors with coated out of doors entry. Whereas their out of doors area is adequate, it’s nonetheless a fraction of what it was once.
Whereas we work to broaden their coated out of doors areas even additional sooner or later, I’m reaching out to you to assist Trixie and her mates right now.
Your $10 present buys one bag of grass seed!
What’s a graze field?
In case you backyard, you in all probability already know what a graze field is! It’s a raised mattress backyard transformed to develop recent grass for rooster mates.
A sturdy, bird-safe grate is added to the highest in order that the grass can develop by means of and the chickens can nibble it at their leisure.
It is a nice type of enrichment that safely reconnects our chicken mates with greenery and nature.
I’m hopeful you see the profit and pleasure graze containers would convey to Trixie and her complete flock. We’ve finished our greatest to maintain prices down – a bunch of animal lovers has volunteered to construct and set up the graze containers.
Your $20 donation buys wooden for the containers.
Every graze field will likely be 4×4 toes and can price round $300 per field. However this funding is properly value it!
Trixie is one in every of 600 hens we lately rescued from an egg farm. Whereas many of those hens have discovered without end properties, Trixie is without doubt one of the hens who arrived with well being issues. Almost 10% of the chickens suffered some type of reproductive illness, requiring them to stay at sanctuary.
For these hens, a graze field will present them with enrichment and delight for no matter time they’ve left. 🥰
Your $40 transforms into 4 baggage of soil!
Right now Trixie enjoys hanging out on the rooster playground, one other volunteer enrichment challenge for the chickens! She is nice mates with Kenzi, one other hen from the farm, and loves exploring.
Flock-down is hard for the birds, and graze containers will make it much less so. Retaining our chickens enriched is crucial to their completely satisfied, wholesome lives, and your present towards the graze containers right now will make this attainable.
With compassion,
Jess Carroll
Govt Director
