Artist Rescues Baby Chicks During Hurricane Katrina

[matcom]

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KEY WEST, Fla. -- Hurricane Katrina brought eight orphans of the storm to the door of Key West artist Rachel Kelly.

Friday afternoon, during the worst of the wind and rain, Kelly heard baby chicks screeching outside and saw a chick floating in the flooded yard next door. She put on her bikini and ran out to rescue them.

Kelly scooped up the soggy chicks and put them in a nearby flowerpot, while a neighbor who ran outside to help grabbed the mother hen. They carried them inside, where the feathered family nested in a picnic basket until the storm passed over.

Kelly says the hen and the babies are fine and healthy now.

Kelly says staging a chicken rescue was "certainly an exciting way to spend the storm."

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4913377/detail.html

[Skittles]

1. admit it, matcom

the real reason you care about this story is the artist donned a bikini to perform said rescue :D

[matcom]

2. well, there IS THAT

its not JUST that i am a sucker for baby chicks

[Skittles]

3. you are a sucker for BIG CHICKS too

:D

[matcom]

4. guilty

:*

[Skittles]

5. did I ever tell you this farm story

when I lived on the farm with Tombo I HATED the pecking order of the chickens - they followed it literally so the one at the lowest social order got pecked really badly by all the other chicks. So sometimes I would hang around them going OK I AM HEAD CHICK NOW and I would "reverse" the pecking order; for example, I'd feed treats to the "lowest" one first - it would drive them all into a frenzy.

Alas matcom, I never donned a bikini to do said reverse-pecking-order activities. :o

[matcom]

6. how DARE YOU!

mention bikini's and pecking and farm all in the same sentence

:freak:

[Skittles]

7. one time Tombo needed an egg for a recipe

and he had a f***ing FIT when there was not one to be found in the barn....VINDICTIVE BITCHES he yelled......I told him really, I think they are just old. :D

[shockra]

8. That's a nice chick story!

:)

Here's an awful one. :(

http://www.mickeyz.net/news/mickeyz/fullarticle/our_fine_feathered_friends/

Perhaps the finest illustration of what factory farming does to chickens has been presented by artist/writer Sue Coe. After her visit to a hatchery with Lorri Bauston from Farm Sanctuary, the activist organization focused on rescuing farm animals, Coe wrote about what they found:

“Around the back is a large dumpster. Lorri and I climb up to look inside. She is looking for live baby chicks. The male baby chicks are discarded as soon as they are hatched. They have no use, no value, since they cannot lay eggs. And it would cost too much to euthanize them. So they are tossed into the dumpster alive. But it is too late for us to rescue any chicks—the sun is just too hot. On the top layer of corpses, flies are eating the chicks’ eyes. Lorri keeps digging under the corpses. There are layers upon layers, some chicks still half in the shells, having broken through with their beaks. I examine a chick, so perfect with its soft yellow down and tiny wings. The chicks are thrown in with other garbage: empty Coke cans, cigarette packs, computer printouts, samples of our throwaway society. Gene Bauston, cofounder of Farm Sanctuary, told me that sometimes the baby chicks are ground up alive and thrown on the fields as fertilizer. Walking along a plowed field, you can sometimes find a chick, still alive, with no legs or wings.”

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Omigod...how awful.....

The things that people can do ...appalling....

Is this the supposed "Culture of Life" that we hear so much
about?


:puke:

[Misunderestimator]

10. Oh god... that is worse than awful.

[underpants]

11. Awwwwwwww

I can't find any pics of Rachel Kelly

Awwwwwwwwww