A woman who re-homes battery chickens has also started knitting them jazzy tank tops to keep them warm.
We’re talking chickens in cosy knits.
25-year-old Nicola Congden hand-knits the tank tops in her kitchen in Falmouth, Cornwall.
Chickens from battery farms are in particular need of extra layers because they often have few feathers, as they tend to pull them out in frustration when kept in tiny pens.
This leaves them struggling to cope with chilly winter weather.
So, for a few hours a day, and when they’re under the watchful eye of Nicola or her mum Ann, the chickens get to wear their jumpers.
‘I saw an article a few years ago about doing them for ex-battery hens and I decided at the time that I would like to do that,’ Nicola said of the knits.
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