Battered and bruised chickens find sanctuary with high school studentsGRANT MATTHEW Students from Opunake High School are rehabilitating battery hens. A group of Opunake High School students in South Taranaki started a sustainability project to produce free range eggs to minimise packaging and using fossil fuels for distribution. They decided they couldn't bear to adopt free range hens after finding out there were ex-battery hens - hens kept in tiny cages, standing on wire mesh, as an egg factory - needing homes. GRANT MATTHEW/STUFF Lucy Shegedin, 15, Brydee Hunt, 14, Kiana Kahukaka, 15, and Jack Osborne 14, with Tibbles the hen. "At the end of the day we felt like we'd changed the world, even though it was only for four hens," Brydee said.

Source: Stuff August 25, 2017 03:45 UTC