Chicken Marco

Polly | Chicken

Polly 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…

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…

Ylvi | Chicken

Ylvi 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…

Daniel | Chicken

Daniel became an Aiderbichler as a three-year-old cockerel and thus escaped slaughter. He and other cockerels spent their lives in a riding stable and should have been killed because they were a nuisance there.

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…

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…

Ferdinand | Chicken

Nature can often be cruel, because the right of the strongest counts here. Ferdinand the cockerel had to experience for himself just how dangerous this can be. He had broken his leg in the past and after a recovery period he was supposed to be reintegrated into the group. But his hens idetified him as…

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.

Zera | Chicken

Hen Zera 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.

Luma | Chicken

Hen Luma 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.

Rosella | Chicken

Mirella, Cinderella, Tina and Rosella had a stroke of luck. They came from the Classroom program. Twenty young people from Bavaria spent ten weeks on a mountain pasture in the Limestone Alps of Austria. Living there with them were 25 chickens from a chicken farm. The hens are about four years old and only wanted…

Wolfgang | Chicken

A family in Carinthia built a new family farm. The father, Wolfgang, was given a rooster for his birthday: Wolfgang. He came from a large poultry farm and was now to be the cock of the walk for the chickens on the small farm. Everything went well at first, but unfortunately Wolfgang became increasingly aggressive…