A Passionate Animal Lover Knits Abused Chickens Tiny Sweaters To Keep Them Warm In Fowl Weather

Battery hens are birds that are kept in tiny cages and are raised only to be slaughered for food. The conditions are horrendous...but sometimes, these birds are rescued. Nicola Congdon and her mother, Ann, have been rescuing and re-homing battery chickens for some years. Recently, Nicola discover that the over-stressed birds would be too cold outside beacuse of their lack of proper feathers. She decided to do something about it -- and make them their own wooly winter sweaters to keep them warm. Abused birds will often over-preen themselves and pull out most of the feathers. This is an action...