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Kim | Chicken

Kim is a hybrid laying hen - Hybrid chick production is almost exclusively carried out by large-scale industries. Hybrid hens differ from traditional breeds in that they are kept for meat production and produce a high yield. Hybrid laying hens need about two kilograms of feed to produce one kilogram of eggs. Old breed hens…

Antonia | Chicken

Antonia 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…

Oreo | Chicken

Oreo, Marshmallow, Mary and Sumatra led a great chicken life with an animal-loving family. At some point, a fox decided to reduce the number of chickens and ate one after the other. The family asked Dieter Ehrengruber to take in the remaining four chickens. So Marshmallow, Oreo, Mary and Sumatra became Aiderbichl chickens and now…

Thelma | Chicken

Thelma and Louise are well-behaved laying hens who enjoyed a large run and always brought great joy to their owner. But now she had to move and couldn't take her two friends with her. At Gut Aiderbichl Schroffnergut, they now have conspecifics and lots of friends with whom they can experience a new evening adventure…

Nadine | Chicken

Nadine 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…

Liesa | Chicken

The owners of the chicken flock, Anna, Burschi, Charlotte, Grisy, Rosa, Schneeweißchen, Charly and Liesa, moved to Greece for professional reasons. They were unable to accompany the chicken family there. They were taken in by the large flock of chickens at the Gut Aiderbichl Henndorf meeting farm. Liesa pecks all day long and looks for…

Marco | Chicken

As is often the case with roosters, they fight with each other because only the strongest can breed. And as this can often lead to serious injuries, Martin and Marco's owners wanted to prevent anything worse from happening. So they asked us to take in the pretty cockerels.

Jack | 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 them by…

Bronx | Chicken

Bronx 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…

Nalia | Chicken

Nalia 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 if they don't perform. Consumers decide on…

Bud Spencer | 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…

Greta | Chicken

An animal-loving lady rescued the hens Charlotte, Heidi, Greta, Isolde and Olga from slaughter after the farm they came from decided to avoid the expensive vaccination. They were brought to Gut Aiderbichl in Iffeldorf, where they can now roam happily and freely around the farm, having left their former existence in the barn behind them.