This is Autumn who has been nominated for PETA's first ever "Best Chicken" competition after being rescued from an intensive egg farm.
Voting is now open for the animal charity's Best Chicken competition with one of the finalists, Autumn, coming from Belfast and has been described as being "obsessed with watches" and loves nothing more than staring at them.
Her guardian, Ali Millar, says that Autumn was rescued from a cage factory farm where she was "treated as an egg-laying machine", and is not a beautiful and thriving bird.
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"Chickens are incredibly intelligent and fast learners," says Millar.
"Their clucks are extremely emotive, and they’re so gentle and fun to be around."
"Even though her early life was filled with suffering, Autumn’s adventurous, curious spirit endured,” says PETA Vice President of Programmes Elisa Allen.
"All the courageous, resilient chickens in PETA’s competition are intelligent beings who value companionship and their own lives – and have formed unbreakable bonds with their loving guardians."
The winning chicken will receive toys and treats – and the winner’s guardian will receive a prize pack that includes a T-shirt, a vegan cookbook, and more (plus bragging rights, of course). PETA will choose the winner based on several factors, including vote count.
Chickens can recognise the faces of more than 100 other chickens; communicate with at least 24 unique vocalisations; establish complex social hierarchies; and roost together companionably. Yet chickens killed for their flesh are crammed into filthy sheds, where they’re forced to live in their own waste – and the runoff from these operations pollutes the environment and poisons local wildlife. At abattoirs, chickens’ throats are often cut while they’re still conscious, and many are scalded to death in de-feathering tanks.
Voting is now open to the public to help determine the winner, who will be revealed by March 31.
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