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Avalon Todaro’s rescue chickens

ow did you get into chickens? Well, I’ve been vegan for 10 years, and we’ve always had cats. And then, six or seven years ago, we were at our old house, and Edgar’s Mission, a Victorian animal sanctuary, had this post on Facebook saying, “We’ve got a factory farm shutting down and 1200 chickens coming into care. We need people to re-home them.” I put my hand up for five chickens and got an email back saying, “Congrats!

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