Knit one, cluck one: Somerset craft club keeps bald rescue hens warm by knitting woolly jumpers for them. Daily Mail.
That’s right. Knitting for the cause. Small featherless hens living in cramped farm quarters, who have outlived their egg -producing lives. Now retired and trying to make do in the freezing British winter in rescue farms.
Alas, a knitting club gets to work producing hen sweaters, which will be used until the hens fatten up and regain their feathers in happier and warmer times.
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We have hens that are still hanging out and enjoying their old age- we keep a warmer light in the shed for them in the winter. Are we saps? NAH- they laid eggs for us and they still eat the bugs in the garden!
That is great PMM. Keeping a warming light for them. sounds immensely easier than knitting them little sweaters. Loks like they still keep pull their fare share with eating the bigs in the garden. What about a rooster? Got one that ejoys the warming light too?