Chicken Elser

Lotte | Chicken

An animal lover contacted us and asked us for help. Construction work was being carried out on his property and this would massively restrict his chickens' freedom of movement. He also no longer wanted to put up with the construction noise. So he asked us to take in his well-behaved Lotte, who had become a…

Carry | Chicken

Carry is one of 22 chickens that we were able to take in. An animal lover lived with ponies and chickens on a farm that she now has to leave. She asked us to take in her charges. We tried to find space and were able to take in all 22 of her chickens. The…

Terence Hill | Chicken

Animal lovers decided to keep chickens years ago. Again and again, there were young animals that could stay on the farm. But now there was a surplus of males, as there were sometimes roosters involved in the brooding. The animal lovers asked for help and introduced us to Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. Both are…

Pommes | Chicken

Rooster Pommes and other chickens were hatched and raised in a kindergarten as part of the farm animals project. The daughter of a kindergarten teacher was there from the first day the chickens hatched and was allowed to look after six chickens in a specially built chicken coop at home. At some point, it turned…

Barbossa | Chicken

Chickens are wonderful animals, because although their brains are only the size of a walnut, they prove their brains to us time and time again. Chickens are able to feel compassion, as has already been proven in an experiment. They can deceive each other and have excellent communication skills. These qualities are denied to them…

Turbo | Chicken

Two cockerels suddenly appeared in an industrial area in the middle of Salzburg. They seemed to feel so comfortable that they pitched their tents there. Two ladies took care of them, fed them and looked after them. But they couldn't stay there forever, the danger was too great that they would be eaten by a…

Agnes | Chicken

Hen Agnes and 24 other laying hens came to Gut Aiderbichl Deggendorf at the age of one. They were no longer laying and should have been slaughtered. The consumer determines the life and death of the animals without being aware of it.

Speedy | Chicken

Speedy's fate is repeated again and again. He didn't get along with the second rooster and so he had to leave. Now he lives at Gut Aiderbichl in Iffeldorf and it seems that he has found his peace here - all the best Speedy!

Korbinian | Chicken

Korbinian is a broiler chicken - In chicken fattening, a distinction is made between conventional floor, free-range and organic farming. In conventional farming, broilers are kept in barns. Austria is the leader in terms of space, as Austrian chickens have up to 40 percent more space than the European average. In free-range systems, the animals…

Samira | Chicken

Samira is one of the young laying hens that have been put out to pasture. Every year, we take in young hens whose laying performance is declining. It is important to consider in good time what should happen to laying hens at the end of their laying period. Killing and disposing of them via the…

Pauli | Chicken

Pauli lived with other roosters in a riding stable and caused trouble there. All of the roosters were supposed to die, but before they did, they were given a place to live in Carinthia by Gut Aiderbichl's animal emergency center.

Eline | Chicken

Eline was turned out because she had served her time as a laying hen. Laying hens are turned out when they are just under one and a half years old, which means that they are slaughtered or, if they are lucky, can continue their lives elsewhere - even without performance. Consumers decide on the life…