Corie is a leghorn chicken, and a rare survivor of a battery cage egg farm.
She was rescued as her flock went to slaughter, and is the sole survivor of a barn that contained over 18000 individuals.
The cage she spent her life in was so small she couldn't stretch in any direction, and she shared it with 4 other chickens. When she first came out, her skin and feathers were burned from the ammonia in the air due to a life spent living above piles of excrement. Barns like the one she came from are only cleaned between flocks, and hens like her are killed after about a year of intensive egg-laying. All standard in battery cage egg farms, though cage-free and free-range hens only face different horrors during their equally short lives.
Before she came to the sanctuary, she spent a couple of weeks in quaranteen with one of our volunteers. Until her arrival here, she had never felt grass beneath her feet, seen the open sky, or felt the sun on her face. She has shown incredible resistance to the horrors she was forced to endure, and prefers to spend time with humans instead of other birds. Even being outside of an enclosed space was difficult. She has a tendency to stick to the edges of any enclosure she goes into and likes to sleep somewhere with four walls and a door in close proximity at night.
She is one saved from millions. A very lucky individual, and a constant reminder to all that the egg industry is cruel, unnecessary, and should never be supported in any way.
