I know this is the internet and all, but a typo in your headline doesn’t speak well for the rest of the writing.

Oh, the owner was very cooperative. So does that mean he will get away with causing the death of thousands of chicken and thousand of others who were starving. He should be changed with felony animal abuse for not reporting that the chickens were there or finding someone who would take the chickens. I doubt that money was the big issue here. The issue is that he didn’t really give a damn and didn’t think that anyone would notice. Jail time and a big fine for him. Excuses should not be taken seriously.

If you don’t have the money to feed your animals, don’t just let them starve. Those poor chickens. This man needs to pay for what he did to these birds.

sure he can cooperate by pleading guilty at his arraignment for felony animal abuse. He is heartless and needs to be taught a sharp lesson in the form of jail time. Make sure this happens!

bubba…out….

Chung is worthless piece of sh*t. Like the life of a chicken doesn’t suck already, c’mon man. He’s a discrace to the human race.

This is not a “ranch” this is a FACTORY. Live animals being factory farmed. Lack of funds is NEVER an excuse to abandon any animal, whether livestock or pet. There are always rescue groups that can be contacted for help. This person didn’t see these animals as anything more than products..He did not care about their welfare. They were things to him.

A sliver of sunshine after such a tragic and needless event. Thanks to Annette Patton (of the Stanislaus Animal Services Agency) for heeding our calls to save as many of these suffering birds as humanly possible.

He walked away from 50,000 living beings, consciously and on purpose. He could have picked up the phone and anonymously let any animal agency know his intent. Instead they suffered and died. If this guy walks away from this without repercussion, there is no hope for animals. California is supposed to be a more enlightened and progressive state than others. If this is condoned here, Heaven help the animals on factories elsewhere.

Why couldn’t the chickens just be let loose to roam free, which is how they live naturally? Starve to death!? They eat bugs and grass. Sounds like this farmer has been feeding them grain and soy and keeping them in cages all their life, not knowing that all he had to do was open the cages. In effect, he was starving the birds. Those birds are healthier (and so are we when we eat them) when they eat bugs, worms, and grass.

Folks they’re chickens. With the price of food these days, he should’ve just sold them. In a month you can buy them at your local grocery store plucked and in pieces. Bon Appetite.

How is a farmer with 50k chickens broke? If he got a dollar a piece for them he’s have 50k. Instead of selling the poultry he just abandons them?

There is no crime here other than stupidity and lazyness. His punishment is bankruptcy and failure. A man shouldn’t be put in jail for being “cruel” to an animal we raise for eating.

When life gives you chickens, make fried chicken.

Poor chickens. They could’ve been such great McNuggets.

Put this guy In Jail now.

Yes save them to be eaten another day.

Yes old mr wang chung of ho chi min city just walked away. They do that to humans in cambodia. The birds could have been sold to market. He’s not worth throwing in prison so let him go back to where ever he came from.
Dumb Ass.

The guy should have driven them all down to the Everglades. That’s where everyone else lets animals they can’t take care of loose

You can be arrested for being cruel to ANY animal, regardless of the purpose for the animal being alive. God allows us to eat his creations, but nowhere does it say we should be allowed to be cruel to them in order to do so.

Gator Food

So, they are going to save these chickens and then do what with them?? Raise them as pets?? Who is going to pay to feed them? The way I read it, that’s over 30,000 chickens. I’ll bet he didn’t own that many chickens, but his bank did. Maybe they would not loan him money to feed those chickens. You people are going to go gaga over a bunch of chickens and yet we let humans starve? You want to do something with them chickens. Slaughter them and give the meat to the poor, or, how about have a big chicken dinner for all the homeless people. Maybe sell them to Tyson Chicken and use the profits to people down on their luck. What do you people think animals are used for?? Where do you think your chicken nuggets, KFC Fried Chicken, Hell, even an egg sandwich comes from?? It’s bad that this happened but it happens all the time with all kinds of animals. Don’t cry too long for them, they were born to be used as food. Now excuse me, my fried chicken lunch is ready.

Yes, a person SHOULD be charged with animal cruelty for abandoning animals to starve to death, whether or not the animals were being raised to be eaten by omnivorous humans. Cruelty is cruelty and this “farmer” was cruel. He should be made to pay for his crime, to the fullest extent of the law.

I have some family that farms, and I would not be so quick to rule out money being an issue. The margins on producing food aren’t that great. So when fuel prices spike, and then feed prices rise following that, its entirely possible for your costs to outrun your cushion from the last time you got paid.

Remember, you are working from the last money you got to pay for your next “crop”, if costs rise more than you expected, you don’t magically get money to cover the difference. If the spike is hard enough that you just can’t continue, “passing on the cost to the consumer” just isn’t an option.

I completely agree that he should have done more, but suggesting that he is laying in his mansion on piles of money while his chickens starve is very unlikely. All of the farmers I have met live far leaner than you would imagine.

How about adopting those chickens out to low income folks who have room to raise them and could benefit from the eggs?

My guess is wherever the hell this gjerk came from, the lives of animals are as cheap as human ones.

I hope they throw the sob in prison for the maximum term – on bread and McNuggets!!!!

Those rescue groups know what they are doing. It’s fried chicken for everybody!

Glad to know innocent until proven guilty is completely non existent these days. I hope none of you are on the jury since you are all completely biased already. I can’t believe all the sheeple running from media trough to media trough slurping it up.

Are you people serious? They are chickens! They are soon to have their little chicken heads cut off and be plucked. What is wrong with you folks?

Opening the cages doesn’t magically solve the problem. If you lived next door to him, do you really think you would be okay with him realizing that many chickens to eat every piece of vegetation on your property? What if that neighbor were a farmer and relied on that crop for his livelihood?

He damn well should have called someone to deal with the chickens, but letting them loose would have just made for a different news story of people hating this guy.

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LOL – Thanks for making my day. Loon alert!

As for the dumb ass who asked how a 50,000 chicken farm can be poor they must not realize most chicken farmers go into deep debt for even one of those chicken houses. To the tune of 250,000 if I am not mistaken. One of those houses holds 10,000 chickens I believe so multiply that 250,000 by 5 and see how much conventional chicken sells for and then ask that question

Quick poll – how many of you lamenting the fate of these skinny legged birds defend defend the “right” to throw human babies in the trash to the tune of countless thousands each year?

Why didn’t this person just sell to another farmer or contract someone to feed them at his location in exchange for the chickens. Are chickens now worthless?

The rescued chickens will be ambassadors for their kind, teaching humans compassion, love, and respect by experiencing first-hand what fascinating and wonderful individuals all chickens are. God bless them every one. Thank you Animal Place and others for giving these animals a forever home and a chance to live their lives as nature intended. Their suffering at last is over. xox

Save the chickens, so we can have more nuggets!
Did the survivors eat the dead ones? MMM, that fried
chicken is sayin’ hello to my stomache right now!!!

So many bird-brained comments here…time to fly the coop…buh-bye!

If they had let them go all the illegal immigrants would have turned them into those yummy burritos, tacos, and tamales they sell to us thru their little roach coaches they drive around at home depots out there. It would have made a great tragedy to fortune and fame story about capitalism, some poor little illegal alien family and why they love it over here.

Janet Weeks probably thinks people should “do time,” too, for cruelty to their teddy bears.

I guess the same could be said for those who have abortions. You animal people are just fing weird.

They saved them from being euthanized ? LOL. So now they get to go to the meat processing plant and get their throat cut. Not sure you really saved them.

They’ll probably end up in cookpots anyway.- but at least they’re off the farm. Happy days for them at least short – term.

I think the rancher was performing late term abortions – what’s the deal – Obama pass an Illinois law allowing infanticide…

Ok, all pinheaded liberals line up for the save the chicken rally. Meanwhile down the street the unPlanned Parenthood ceter is killing unborn humans, also know as human babies, and also known by the lefties as “fetal tissue” Yep, animals first.

What nature intended is that we kill them and eat them, but that’s only after we steal all their eggs. And if we don’t do it, there’s plenty of other animals that will. Some of these felonious animals are even warm and fuzzy, like your thinking, but without the warm.

How are they racist? I lived out there less than an hour away from turlock I am speaking absolute truth because thats what would have happened. Nothing I have said intonates racism. Its your perverted little mind that sees racism lurking in every dark corner plotting to rear its devious little head.

At least give them away to another chicken farmer rather than leaving them to starve. How difficult is that to figure out?

We have 6.7 acres and would have gladly taken some of these poor chickens. And no…we raise themfor eggs, not for meat.

This is some of the funniest dry humor I’ve ever seen – great comment “rescued chickens will be ambassadors for their kind” – classic. I hope it was written in jest, but if it was not, and you are serious, then it’s even funnier.

Janet – is your comment serious? it’s absolutely hilarious either way, bu i was rather hoping it was your dry humor and wit making fun of those animal right people.

This farmer should be charged with animal cruelty. One count for every chicken. And before you people start bashing me, I am not a “leftist” ( I am very much a Republican), nor do I think that abortion is something that is acceptable, except in certain extreme situations. Nothing, human nor animal, should be left to simply starve to death. That is pointless suffering that is one of the most cruel and inhumane ways to die. Being broke is not an excuse. There are plenty of rescue groups that would have helped him. I find it disgusting that people seem to think that if you believe in certain animal rights, like not starving to death, you must be a nutjob. Saying that God put them here for us to eat is a ignorant argument, being that the Bible also said that we are to respect all of God’s creatures.

Actually subjecting the birds to starvation like that is clearly needless cruelty to animals, even if their ultimate fate is to be someone’s dinner. The magnitude of Chung’s irresponsibility is stunning.

And no, I am neither a liberal nor a vegetarian.

The mere fact that the Left thinks it’s OK to cut an unborn child up in little pieces doesn’t translate into justification for inhumane treatment of 50,000 animals. If Chung couldn’t afford to feed them, he had a duty to turn them over to someone who could. The birds are entitled to fill the measure of their creation and enjoy themselves in their chickenish fashion until they become dinner for someone, whether it’s a human being or a coyote.

KFC supports your good work. But let’s not mention the thousands killed in the illegal wars, those tased to death by the degenerate cops or the drug gang killings.

http://911essentials.com

Drudge Report determines the plight of starving chickens is newsworthy but Judge Napolitano getting axed by Fox is unimportant.
Excellent reporting Drudge. We are all real sorry about those chickens.

Obama sent a letter of apology to the chickens…

NO. They are going to animal sanctuaries where they will NEVER be killed and eaten. Google ‘Animal Place’. This is one of the rescue groups that saved these hens.

The hens are going to sanctuaries like Animal Place. They will never end up in a cookpot.

You crazy!

Yep, $250K to $300K per chicken house is about right and your average chicken farmer goes into debt for these and earns about $18K per year. Tyson and Purdue dictate to them how to run their business. There is no room for error and there can be no compassion for the birds. It’s a tough business. Watch the movie “Food Inc.” someday, it’s an eye opener.

I find it hard to feel too sorry for these chicken. I’ve worked in poultry houses and those suckers are as brutal and mean as any animal I’ve ever seem. And trust me; I’m usually the first to have a bleeding heart for animal neglect and this was still wrong but…

I mean, have you ever seen how chickens kill each other just when they sense the other is injured? that’s just one of their vicious habbits. That and they’re are as dumb as it gets. I’ve seen them drown themselves by looking up and leaving their beaks open when it’s raining.

I’m not sure how long these chickens will live. They’re not normal animals. They’re specially bred to mature in 7 weeks instead of 12 and in most cases they don’t develop sufficient musculature to even stand up and walk. I’m not sure they’ll be able to.

“We’re going to give them another chance at life,” Sturla said.

Gave ‘em another chance to be Sunday dinner!

Rescue a chicken? You got to be nuts…

Econ 101 explains that when we artificially increased the demand for corn by subsidizing ethanol, then corn, its substitutes, and all things made from it would increase in price. If the price of corn is high enough (I say IF because I don’t follow corn and livestock futures), then the chickens could actually be worth less than zero. I am not condoning cruelty or abandonment though. The owner should have done as much as possible to either give the chickens to another party or minimize their suffering. Just walking away from the problem is inexcusable.

Chicken nuggets aren’t made entirely from chicken. Sawdust filler and artificial flavor. YouTube “3 year old Happy Meal”

So you can watch an animal starve to death and not care?
Hey, I eat plenty of chicken but that doesn’t mean they ought to all be subject to pain and suffering for the heck of it. Try being a little more human.

Thanks You. I think these animal hating anti life people don’t get the concept of compassion. It’s hopeless.

Your comment is ideologically flawed those things do happen.

Thank you Jeff. So good to see people like you. I have given up on these ignorant commentators. Glad you posted!

Um…are they really chickens? Are we sure Which came first, after all …the chickens or the eggs? Just like humans…is it an embryo/fetus, or is it a human. Only Obama knows….RON PAUL!

For those good Christians here is a quote from Saint Francis of Assisi “If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

Mainstream Christians have turned in to vile people that think nothing of letting a chicken starve to death and suffer while cuddling dogs and cats. These are ALL sentient beings that deserve mercy! I have so lost all respect for Christian people that talk and act like this, which are most.

Even your Pope has said Animals have Souls. Shame on all those that show no mercy!

These are not pets. Most likely these are bred to be meat birds therefore they only can live about 8 weeks. at that point they are killed for their meat if not they will break a hip or have a heart attack from being over weight. So i guess they are saving chickens that will only die in a few weeks because we know no Liberal will have the heart to kill and eat them.

Good one. Also, you’re an idiot. Keep throwing around your biases willy-nilly and soon you’ll be the one we’re pointing at and laughing.

There are only a few tens of thousands of people willing to buy those birds for dinner or for eggs, whichever.

Interesting, hmm, Keung Chung did to his chickens what Mao did to 80 Million Chinese. Well folks, can’t you just wait for the Gov. to be everything for everyone?!!

Chickens. CBS 13 is “heart wrenched” when they die. But when thousands of infants are killed by planned parenthood every day, that’s “choice.” The media disgusts me.

The concept of pets is not a religious concept. Non human Animals are supposed to shown mercy. So even if they are killed for their meat, while they are alive they must be given food and water, shelter and treated with kindness. Anyone who things and does otherwise is a person with a cold heart. You wonder why so many people run away from religion. Hypocrites and False Prophets that all Religion is, few practice Love and Kindness. Just look at this board and you see madness and venom! Religion is madness based on superstition established by men to gain power. It has done nothing but enslaved humans and animals, oppressed women, religion kills in the name of God and laughs at the suffering of those they do not understand. Humans, you are such spiritual infants.

The killing of the innocent is wrong. Neither the unborn nor the sententious beings like chickens deserve the be killed. Pro Life is pro life. If it has breath and is sentient it is wrong to kill! And yes the media is biased! The rarely report on the things that happen to the innocent. Partial birth abortion, Child sex trafficking, abuse of the elderly, torture of animals in the factory farms, abuses galore everywhere and we wonder why our society is becoming so callous! But you rarely hear about ti. I applaud any report that sheds a light on abuse regardless who’s abused. Love is compassion for all and it’s time we spread Love and not War. Ron Paul!

Could have used them for the chick nugget school lunch program.

Why didn’t the idiot call animal services and give them up without waiting until 1/3 died and someone having to report him? People are so stupid…they’d rather animal suffer to death than do something to give them a chance at life or at least be humanely euthanized. I hope he gets criminal charges…I hope the judge throws the book at him and never lets him have another animal. There are too many stupid pet owners and the economy doesn’t help…and you can thank out idiot in chief for how broke everybody is.

very good point <

Amen, brother!!!!

In my opinion, those who stand up and fight for the weak on this planet, are the ones I look up to. Whoever goes out and rescues any kind of animal or human is a hero in my book. To sit here and mock them just shows what a little person are. Get out from behind your computer and do something to better the planet, please..

Liberal Chicken S#*Ts

That is funny but entirely logical. Dr. Doolittle could also talk to the animals just as can, apparently, President Dolittle.

So, this idiot farmer, who ran out of money, couldn’t pick up a phone and call animal services or anybody else and let them know the situation? What, he was too busy? I absolutely despise stupid people like this, and they are stupid. No wonder he was broke. Too stupid to run a business. Lock him up. Seriously. At least six months on a jail/work program where he has to help on a chicken farm.

Cody, I raise free range chickens and sell their eggs. If chickens have the space they need, they don’t kill each other. I suspect if humans were not crammed into cities, there would be fewer murders, also.

My chickens are not stupid. They are rather clever, in fact. When a hen decides to ‘go broody’ on a clutch of eggs, she will protect those eggs and the resulting chicks with her life.

And a rooster will protect his hens, too. I had a rooster die when a raccoon decided to break into the coop.

But, not all chickens can have acres to wander around on, eating bugs and weeds and the occasional mouse and vole. It would cost way too much to feed people on chickens who are almost pets – as mine are.

But they are not awful critters in a normal environment

And because of the increasingly high cost of chicken feed, it is even harder for farmers to break even, much less feed their own families.

And why, you might ask, is feed so high?

Because there is corn in it. I have watched a 50 pound sack of decent chicken feed go from $8 to $14 since 2008.

The whole ethanol thing has made feed for farm animals very expensive. People are dumping their horses out in the middle of nowhere because they can’t afford to feed them. I’m sure some dump other critters, too.

I think maybe you need to rethink what you stated and realize how utterly stupid you sound.

Steve, I am pro-life, but I still think that leaving any animals to die of starvation is wrong.

I have chickens – about 40 of them, and they give us wonderful eggs. They get to live their lives out here, and when one dies, I bury it.

And I am no leftist! I’m a gun-toting, Catholic, conservative.

No one should stereotype people and their motives, no matter which side of the political spectrum they are on.

Um.. you do realize the Vatican has always, and still does say the exact opposite of this? As an atheist i think its all stupid, but if you’re going to name drop the friggin Pope at least get your facts almost right.

Theologian, CS Lewis wrote ‘The suffering of even the lowest and contempible of creatures is a serious problem’

So you are saying that most Christians have turned into vile people? Do you think atheists or Muslims are more compassionate toward animals than Christians? Gandhi said be the change that you want to see in the world. Do you think by calling an entire group “vile”, excuse me most of the group, you are contributing anything positive to the discussion of animal cruelty? People are people, there are mean people in all faiths, in all walks of life, in all ideologies. Reconsider your statement and be the change that you want to see.

Drudge = tabloid. Not news.

One more thought JecC, and I mean this in the most kindest way; stop loathing the human race. It is not good for you or for your fellow brothers and sisters. Perhaps a little self-reflection is in order.

Is this a typo in the headlines or am I on crack? Remaining Abandoned Chickens Turned Over “Two” Rescue Groups. To?

this guy was a moron my grandparents had a chicken farm 10 years ago and the birds were worth A LOT. so i dont buy that he was broke and thats the problem, like me saying im broke driving a Ferrari, i might be broke but i have things worth a substantial amount of money.

These industrial battery farms should be outlawed by now. They are crimes against nature. Sure, raising animals for meat humanely would cost more..but if you don’t like it, go vegetarian, get a better job, keep some for yourself. Just remember, those animals suffering inside those small cages, that suffering is in the meat too. If you’ve never kept chickens or cows you cannot really know. Most of you would have nightmares for years seeing where the wal mart meat comes from.

hate to say it, but these chickens were”made” to have exta large breasts for the food industry– they aren’t ever happy chickens– the whole giant chicken business is corrupt–

My husband purchased 200 of this type of chicken (not my idea!) for our farm a few years ago for a free-range organic-feed raised food source and natural farm pest control (chickens can be great at eating ticks, roaches, mice, etc). Our nearby neighbor raises thousands of these commercially, also. They DO NOT spontaneously die from anything or break hips at eight weeks of age- However, they do become some of the biggest, ugliest, meanest roosters you’ll ever see and they promptly begin killing all the hens and smaller roosters to cannibalize them no matter how much you feed them or how big of a pasture you raise them in. They are like Franken-chicken unleashed, and even my vegetarian daughter says she has trouble feeling sorry for those commercially/genetically altered-inbred terrors. After they were gone, we happily went back to our little pet game chickens for our eggs, and none of us has much of an appetite for commercial chicken, anymore. BTW- I am not pro-PETA, I was a zookeeper before I retired; I understand and have no issue with “circle of life” , and I appreciate that we have omnivore (not vegetarian) teeth- I love a good steak! Fear the Franken-chickens- they do NOT make suitable pets!

Are you really that stupid? Do you know anything about animal husbandry? No these chickens are not bread to be pets. They are bred for consumption. What does that have to do with the fact that it is inhumane to just leave them and let them starve to death. They do not live only eight weeks or break a hip like your grandmother. They can easily live past a decade.
Liberalism has nothing to do with respect for animals. I am a staunch conservative. Your just an idiot.

I believe the modern school-taught mantra is based in evolution and not Christianity. That mantra is “Survival of the Fittest.” Guess what…chickens are not the fittest, otherwise they would survive merrily on their own. As it is, the fit species takes advantage of the little ones. Don’t like it? Blame Darwin.

LOL. You make me laugh.

I visualize world peace when all my enemies lie dead at my feet.

I caught that two. The new journalism I suppose..

Drudge = links to news sites, not reporting.

Get it right.

Col. Sanders was quick to volunteer to help rescue and house these chickens in his many fine structures located throughout the country.

Dear Susanna. I never called and entire group anything. You must read my words properly. To deny Historical facts about Christian doctrine how it has been used politically to gain and obtain power and oppress, it’s transformation throughout history, is to deny truth. Many so called traditions based on Christian doctrine have been changed throughout history because they were wrong. Like for instance the practice of Trial by ordeal. it was a totally unexceptionable practice nevertheless it was at the time the excepted religious law of determining innocence or guilt. I am pointing out the flaws of religion and the unwillingness of the followers to see when they are wrong. To continue to treat other sentient beings the way they are threaded and to go on boards here to poke fun of their plight is not a mark on me but a mark on those that act like that. Maybe I touched a nerve? OH and BTW I am perfectly able to multitask and love both humans and animals. However that does not mean i condone what many of these humans do, because I know we can do better. Yes there are many good things many Christians do, but I am not concerned (please read the whole sentence before you go off) with that right now since this article is about chickens and I can not see anything good being done to them by MOST Christians at this time. That being said I know of many Vegetarian/Vegan Christians that do not kill or eat chickens. They are of course excluded in my argument.
I also have a book recommendation for you so you, since I sense you are willing to broaden your mind.
Eternal Treblinka:
Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
By Dr. Charles Patterson

How Ignorant, totally void of fact!

At least I made you laugh Carl… Remember who laughs last… well I let you finish!
Or Pride comes before the fall! I am sure you have lots of enemies!

Tell Craig to stuff it. This tragedy is more likely the fault of our democrat-run legislature which has destroyed our economy in CA. As a former democrat who’s seen through MSM veil of lies and deceit and cover for the lies and deceit in service of their cabal of hangers-on plundering our society on many levels, It’s very obvious that this man would not have run out of money back when CA’s economy was bustling at 5th most powerful in the world, not like the ghost of it’s former self which it is now at 9th biggest on earth, during the administration of the idiot known as Brown, a democrat progressive economy-wrecker if there ever was one.

I kill dog ticks every chance I get. I have no compassion for or on them at all. Does that make me a bad Christian?

The perceived care that animals had before current concentrated production had more sick and dying animals than now. I’ve seen it through 73 years of farm living. Today, with some exception animals are better cared for. This man went broke. He couldn’t buy feed. No doubt the birds were not ready for immediate market or they would have had value to a market. This producers only fault was alerting authorities that he had nothing more he could do.

What an idiotic statement to make; to lump Christians into a group and say they’d let those chickens starve. I’m a Christian and wouldn’t dare let them starve. If I were the farmer, I would have given the chickens to friends, family, strangers and especially soup kitchens. It would be up to them to decide whether they want to eat the chicken or keep it for eggs.

You are right about killing the unborn and torturing animals; free range animals is the only way to go, unless you hunt animals like I do. There is nothing better than harvesting game that is fresh and doesn’t have any hormones, preservatives, bleach or anything else added to it. Since you are quoting the Bible, perhaps you are familiar with the passage where God gives man dominion over the animals.

Luckly these were chickens and not human fetuses, if they were human fetuses you would have to turn a blind eye and call it progress and don’t forget to oppress and condemn anyone to feels otherwise….

There’s no shortage of ignorance on display here. “Sentient” chickens? Maybe from the viewpoint of the idiot who thinks they are “sentient”, they probably do seem smart.

Where is the Anti Christian rhetoric coming from? Is this guy a professing Christian? I am Pro-Chicken rights. I think that chickens have been had a bad rap for years. I bet the chickens in other countries are treated better. The COMB (Chicken of the Muslim brotherhood) will not sit idly by.

If it is the Christians that are behind this conspiracy, then let justice be served.

Sentient =having the power of sense perception or sensation; conscious
Conscious as opposed to unconscious. Perception and sensation.
If you deny a chicken has these then maybe you are lacking either intelligence or you are simply willfully blind. Sir!

Thank you John. Barack Obama would kill an infant who survived an abortion and yet he probably would protect these chickens. I’m not saying the chickens should suffer either but a little perspective would be nice in our society.

So the name of the farm was “Chickenschwitz?”

Barack Obama would NOT protect neither the unborn nor the chickens. He had almost four years to do anything in either direction. He has not. So there. If you think this is just about Chickens and not about who we are as a nation as people then you are sadly mistaken. Neglecting our duties to the innocent and vulnerable will backfire and already has.
I think it’s admirable and good to care and fight for the unborn, but when I see people stand up for life while they feed their children animal fat and sugar, I have to speak up. Do you know what is in Chicken Nuggets or the beloved Steak or Burger? I do. You know there is a slow way of killing kids too, it’s called the average American diet!
Because of Animal fat, meat egg dairy consumption and the cry for cheap products, because of the demand, inferior and cruel methods to produce the endless amounts of flesh are used. Human Life expectancy will be lower and quality of life too due to disease. Diabetes and obesity will kill more people including children then any other cause outside of war times or pandemics like the flu. There won’t be enough money to take care of all the health fall out if we don’t clean up our house. This should be a priority for our the children future. Plus have you ever asked yourself and researched where all the animal manure goes??? That question and quest for an answer will give you a real NEW PERSPECTIVE from the bottom up! Also think about this, These animals that are kept in these conditions are proven to produce stress hormones, when they are handled abusively even more so. What they produce on hormones goes in to the blood and flesh. you eat it OK you’re an adult you make your bed. but your children eat it too, care about your children. You can’t taste hormones and your government won’t test and label for it.

Yes

These are not meat birds. This is an egg laying Leghorn breed. Notice that they are all hens. Since it is an egg-laying breed, all of the males are euthanized while still chicks ( 1 or 2 days old) either by carbon monoxide or rotary impact / shredding

Are you kidding me? The guy ran out of money. This was probably the result of failed economic policy on the backs of Bush and Obama. Even the chickens are being punished for our inefficiency of government. But what gets me is how upset people are over the inhumane treatment of the chicken left to die yet today Americans are being killed for the disposal of a few books and this is all we can talk about is a bunch of freaking chickens that need to die and be deep fried or put into my fried rice. This country is so twisted.

Dude stop being a puss. I do better for the planet by killing animalls to put them on my table and hang their heads on my wall–its call hunting and animal management.

Thousands and thousands died. The rest will live… to die later.

Completely lost in this article is why can’t an operation that sells FOOD stay profitable enough to PAY THE BILLS? Americans seem like they won’t wake up from the TV-induced coma.

Times are tough for everyone, and most can understand his position.
But at least try to find some help, or give the chickens away.

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it’s cause California recently passed a law to increase the sizes of the chicken’s cages. It’s too costly to comply with this law when you can just move states and not have to bother with it.

Farmer should have his farm taken from him, all profits given to the groups who need to clean up this mess.

PROFITS? The guy is broke.

The chickens were being raised to be slaughtered. But it’s inhumane that they died too soon?

Weird.

It’s inhumane that they died in such a horrible and cruel manner. We are all going to die, of course. Would you prefer to go out quickly and without pain or to be starved to death for week after agonizing week?

It is a horrible thing to do to those chickens but I have a question. By giving them to the animal rescue people does what? What happens to the chickens now? The chickens were there to be eaten and now will they live out thier lives on some farm and do nobody anygood? An iteresting problems with an animal that cannot live on its own.

Your idea shows a complete lack of knowledge of farm raised chickens. They like farm raised turkeys are quite diffrent than thier wild cousins. They cannot live in the wild and you would find many dying soon afterwards if released.
They no longer have the instinks to live in the wild. Sad but true. He should have given them to process or another farmer.

why chicken rescue? Take them to another chicken farm(or sell them at a loss), feed them out and send them on to KFC Heaven.

Its a chicken….of course you shouldn’t starve them but we all eat millions of them a day…..use them for their purpose.

Ridiculous. They are going to be slaughtered and eaten soon anyways.

I’m wondering what the animal rescue places are going to do with these hybrid birds that are bred to live 8 weeks?

I just wonder to whom this farmer was contracted to sell his chickens. In any case, you might want to avoid chicken nuggets in the near future.

Do you not have copy writers? The headline, seriously? No one else caught that? As a former newspaper editor I am embarrassed. There’s a difference between two (the number) and to.

As will you, Bill Jacob Rudnick. As will you.

A chicken could easily live on its own. Turn em loose and see how the bugs vanish.

who wants to eat a bird thats been exposed to god knows what after living with thousands of dead birds for the last few weeks. Im sure the broke farmer kept all the chickens completely healthy before he decided to starve them to death

agreed clean em up, feed em right, then on with the process.

You can thank Washington for this. The mandate to turn corn into fuel rather than animal feed has sent corn, grain and soybean prices through the roof. Add in fuel fees to have the feed delivered and you will see lots of farmers go bankrupt.

How about all the surviving chickens be slaughtered and donated to needy food kitchens.

You are saving food. FOOD!!!!! Just kill em, pluck em, freeze em. Then when people get hungry eat em.

There are people who can use rescuing. People who need help. PEOPLE!!!!!

The actions of all involved are wrong on so many levels.

Again and again it is those sitting behind a desk extolling their supposedly expertise and controlling matters that they haven’t a clue about. This invisible happening occurs in our government too with our Congress that sports way over ten thousand staff members who do the work of the elected official. Think I’m full of BS? Your sitting in front of a computer, Google “number of staff members in Congress” surprise surprise. Now you know why things are so bad.

I would like to know how the dead birds can be sent to the dump site and buried there. By law the farmers who raise chickens are required to despose of their dead birds by incineration or face stiff fines from the states and government. Talk about double standards.

Some people are beyond stupid. The comment from Michael indicates why this country and so many states are bankrupt. He wants ‘profits’ from a broke farmer to be given to groups. I guess he wants them to each take a share of the debts of the farmer? That would really be nice of them Share the wealth. Share the debt. No business should fail. Sounds like CA mentality. If it’s not fruit or nuts, it’s flakes. The cereal state.

Even a healthy chicken will peck and eat another chicken. Total idiots abound on this thread. Just shows how far from our ‘roots’ we have strayed. My sympathies to the farmer who invested his life savings in this business venture only to be run out of business by TOO MUCH STATE REGULATION. He has my condolencees for his bankruptcy and loss of his life savings. Only an idiot would think the farmer ‘DECIDED’ to starve them. How much does ‘George’ think it costs to feed that many animals.

That’s the ‘Race to the Top’ more like bottom, dumbing down of our schools. I agree, it’s really annoying to see it on the ‘crawl’, in articles, headlines, and even on the side of a race car. Can you imagine paying for a custom paintjob on a custom car saying Double Nickles. Wonder how many even noticed.

Every chicken farmer knows happy hens are profitable hens. Too bad Congress decided to mandidate grain for ethanol use and drive up grain prices astronomically! Too bad Obama wants oil and energy prices to skyrocket!

So they were rescued for the FRYER? Or stew pot? Why not turn them loose and let nature take it’s course? They can fend for themselves quite well and natural predators can handle the situation well…..heartless? No, have ANY of you been to Key West?

Maybe all the chickens were WHITE??
Would you do that to a COLORED chicken???

Why do people posting here assume that the chickens were be to slaughtered for food?

The article doesn’t say, but there is the same probablity that these were laying hens and the farmer was selling the eggs.

Too bad the article doesn’t describe the situations leading to the failure of the farm or why the chickens were left to starve to death instead of contacting rescure groups in the first place.

If I had to guess, the farmer was in deep depression over his financial situation and wasn’t able to think clearly. I’ve seen it happen to friends.

We’re thrilled to know they’re going to let us in and save several thousand birds,” said Kimberly Sturla of Animal Place.
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A grandfatherly gentleman named Col. Sanders offered to take them in. “I have a nice warm place to put them until I can place them in their own littlle boxes but some seem to prefer these cute little buckets” he was heard to say. )

In my youth, I gahtered eggs for a large poultry farm. Chickens have a short laying life as young chickens and when the hen house egg production drops, all the layers are sold as FRYERS!

Remaining Abandoned Chickens Turned Over “Two” Rescue Groups.

come see the horrible CONDITIONS of the chicken coopsAND DOG FARMS here in Cheungs Korea too–absolutely sickening..WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?

So this is the FIRST time that YOU spotted an error by one of todays “journalists”?
Have you seen, in print and on camera, a “journalist say “looking back in retrospect”? How about “after te explosion DERBIS covered the area”? Or maybe “this is the first premeire annual meeting of the committee”.
There’s always more that these phoneys blurt, keep your ears tined and you’ll have a million laughs. I caught these nuggets and I’M A HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUT!.

Chicken train. They have chicken leashes? Everyone should have a pet chicken.

Heartwrenching? Really? They’re chickens ffs.

In the past, farmers have had chicken kills to raise the price of chicken in the market, Dumped eggs to raise the price of eggs and even poured milk out on the ground to raise the price of milk. Hate to admit my age here but these things are true, Many instances of abandoned farm animals because investment did not make millionaires of the farmers. My favorite movie is still “Chicken Run”. Hey, chickens coming home to roost.

Just like Stalin wanted! You’re learning, Comrade! Excellent… The redistribution of a citizen’s wealth is a wonderful ideal for a Nation!

Dee S

Kinda like Terry Shiavo’s death by (court induced) starvation was inhumane, horrible, and cruel, right? Obviously if a chicken’s death by starvation is so horrific, human death by starvation, no unlike Stalin’s Russia, is also horrific. OR do you have a set of logic that somehow justifies a certain idealogy no matter how illogical and heartless is may be?

I am glad you posted ORW since most people, including myself,know less than nothing about chicken farming.
Even if they were raised for meat that is still no reason for starving them.
If this guy was going broke why didn,t he just sell them to another egg producing farm.

Silly…these is an industrial agricultural model. These “chickens” have been bred and there by genetically engineered to either be egglayers or meat chickens. The conditions of a standard “chicken-”farm” are about as close to a living hell as you see on this planet. The amonia stench from the decomposing chicken manure is aweful by itself… you will normally see dead chickens in the same cage block as live chickens even at the best of times.

These chickens were not “pets” they are FOOD… One of the things that I find immensely entertaining is how very very isolated most of our urban population has become. Most of these “fools” think that meat and produce come from magic “trees” already shrink wrapped with expiration dates already on them. They neither know nor care about all the increadible work and conditions that go into producing that product.

A little practical education would go a long way here…not PETA propoganda. Frankly, as a cattle rancher…I welcome all Californians to follow the PETA silliness and become Vegans… that leaves more of the quality chicken and beef products for the rest of us much more grounded individuals.

These kind of threads are frought with entertainment if you just enjoy the simple absurdity of fools spouting freely….

Gotta love these posts. These are FOOD chickens…either for eggs or meat. They are genetically bred to be what they are.. The industrial production model that lies behind the standard chicken “farm” guarantees that the actual conditions are more like “Dante’s Inferno” than a disney cartoon that PETA seems to envision for all animals.

Your food is cheap…and plentiful because we have very efficient ways of producing high quality product. These chickens are just that…genetically engineered to be meat or egg product producers. They have no real brains left anyway.

Oh…for the rest of you Valley girl urban Californian fools…meat, eggs, and milk are not picked from happy “trees” already shrink wrapped with expiration dates. They come from genetically engineered (through decades of selective breeding) fed, killed, cut up, and virtually every part of these living products goes to form your shoes, clothes, eggs, meat, and milk.

As a cattle rancher who raises organically pure grass fed beef…I can personally tell you that the production of your meat product is a messy process… So please please keep spouting all your ultra urbanized myopic PETA commentaries. Better yet…put some proof to your drivel and go vegan. That leaves that more choice cuts of my beef to others who have basic common sense… Kind of like letting natural selection work …but that;s another thread of yet another level of politically correct absurdity.

“There is more in heaven and earth my dear Horatio…than is contained in your philosophy…”

Everything is racist. Calling something racist is the same thing as saying something exists, so just replace the phrase ‘is racist’ with the word ‘exists in all sentences.

Let alone the story related here, what I have a problem with is the poor grammar – or at least the poor manner – with which the title of this article is written at the time of my comment: “Remaining Abandoned Chickens Turned Over Two Rescue Groups”.

Perhaps the combined force of 50,000 chickens can indeed turn over “Two Rescue Groups”. But was something else meant here?

ORW, If you knew anything about chickens, you would know that a laying hen reaches it’s life as a layer and then processed as a baking hen.

Right on Billy! Young pullets are brought to the cages to mature for a couple of weeks and as they reach egg laying age they continue to lay and the egg count is monitored. The egg count mounts and begins to taper off in a few months and the hens are sold off to Tyson or Pilgrims Pride or Yum brands.

Hehe, nice one

Is there an editor in the house?

That farm was rediculous, You dont relize how many chickens 50,000 chickens are until you see the video of that farm. OMG They have a video up at http://www.WarnWire.com You have to see this farm, Chickens everywhere it looks like a movie. lol

[...] will be saved. “We’re going to help load them up to the rest of the agencies that are here,” said Annette Patton. The non profit group Farm Sanctuary has been working to rescue 2,000 surviving hens.Image Source: [...]

Chickens give a cluck, so do we.

Balderdash! Animal Place and PETA have reserved all of the BBQ pits at the local recreational center. Why do you think that is so?

Let PETA have them. They’ll have them all killed and thrown in mall parking lot dumpsters in no time at all.

Since unelected officials took over Washington and the media following the coup and cover up most of what you’re reading the gets national attention is entirely made up.

Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out.

The biggest cover up in history starts here
http://www.PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com

funny that the video advertisement is for Mcdonalds

Joe Biden might answer: “We would have no colored eggs for Easter!”

You know what is cruel and in humane? Raising chickens like that……. feeding them poison so they can lay poor quality eggs that you can feed your children.

Leave PETA Alone they are too busy making porn commercials.

Welcome to ObamaBrownville.
Had enough yet ?

There has been lots of publicity lately about abandoned horses, goats, etc. The chickens are no different. There have also been numerous articles about the increase in cats and dogs given up at animal shelters. The economy is still bad in California. People have to feed themselves before they feed their animals,. How that’s Obama’s fault, however, eludes me. This financial mess started under President Bush.

“Remaining Abandoned Chickens Turned Over Two [sic] Rescue Groups”

Reporting Ben Sosenko

Government school wasn’t very good to Ben.

Because Obama keeps making the same mistakes, even worse when it comes to the economy. He did everything Bush did and ran it further into the ground. Also with the continued bad economy under Obama, more of these animals are being starved to death by cash strapped owners. I thought you Liberals were supposed to be so dang smart.

A lot of ill-informed posts here…

These are white leghorns. Excellent, prolific layers and don’t go into molt very often, so they are quite productive.

These are not “meat” chickens that would be suitable for KFC, or or Tyson Foods (except maybe as some sort of chicken spread, potted meat or vienna sausages). Commercial meat chickens are dominated by cornish x rocks whose lifespans are only 4 – 8 weeks depending on whether they’re harvested as cornish hens or when they’ve reached peak feed to meat conversion.

The best thing they can do is find other farms to take them, depending on whether or not the guy left due to disease popping up in his flock. He may not have run out of money…no excuse either way.

If they’re disease free, sell them to farms/individuals at a low rate, make some money for the rescue organization, and when they’ve used up their useful laying years, they’ll make great stew/crockpot meals.

ORW
I grew up around cattle ‘processing’. My grandfather was a Plant Superintendent at a plant in KY. I saw cows WALK in the back chutes, and sides of beef go out the front loading dock.

I understood from an early age that it wasn’t ‘magic’ that changed them from the walking state to the cooking state.

And I actually used to work in the poultry industry. And believe it or not, THIS guy is an aberration and 99.999% of animal growers and dairy and egg producers would consider him so. If for no other reason, because abusing animals brings no profit, but plenty of BS and heat on ALL of them.

I have a question in all this, with the price of eggs as high as they are, how the hell did this clown go broke? He had to have spent the money on something other than feed. Obviously.

As much as I love meat, and eggs, I don’t believe in animal abuse. I’m a dog owner, and I’ve got a couple of pet goats. I’m a little goofy in how much I do for them.

All animals should be taken care of, well fed and watered daily, kept warm in winter, cool in summer and their cages, bins, barns living areas should be clean and dry. Unless they are aquatic, right?

This next statement drives PETA types insane, but stress free animals taste better. Laying hens and dairy animals give better quality eggs, milk, butter etc. And the growers know it. They are, after all, in it for the money they get from the animals and their constituent products.

The life span of the average chicken is around 5 years. Given that knowledge it’s likely the older birds will be either put down or are already dead. Also, chickens are given to a bit of cannibalism. Makes me sick thinking about the realities. I can take a few here at my home in Bakersfield, maybe three, if the need arises. I have facilities for them and plenty of feed.

With that many birds and the low monetary value of a chicken they’d be best off to give them away as fast as possible and send the rest to dog food production. Chickens like those can barely fetch $5.00 at auction on a good day. Flood the auction with this many birds and you will not even give them away. A chickens life span and productive years is way too short for any greater value.

1. I sure wish these “journalists” would learn somple grammer and spelling (see title to this story).
2. I sure wish the trolls with Palin derangement sysndrome would get over her already and get a life.

Oh yea the economy is just getting better & better.

The price this man would have gotten is some where around 47 cents a dozen. His cost per dozen would be higher than that. Once these chickens get old they will eat the same amount and lay less eggs, so he will lose more. Somthing should have been done, but if no money to pay for feed they don’t eat.
What you pay in the store is not what the farmer gets. Now you know the middle man is the one who is ripping you off.

Wrote down a few jokes …

The cows knew about it but were too chicken to say something.

So they were starving, dont have a cow, (have a chicken).

What the cluck is going on?

This story ruffles my feathers

the landfill dogs are going to eat well tonight.

the landfill will be finger licken good.

Whoah 50,000? we’ll need a lot more than 11 herbs and spices.

For tonight, that reporter had chicken cach-a-(s)tory

Anyone for a 50 piece mcnugets?

“It was as if millions of voices clucked out in terror and were suddenly silenced…”

these are not egg laying chickens, how would you collect eggs laying all over an open space. These are for eating. Anyway, the farmer is probably in debt up to his eyeballs and the real culprit is the large company that gave him this huge mortgage and basically enslaved him to produce cheap chickens for them for the rest of his natural life. Notice they never mention what the purpose of the chickens is for, or what company buys them from the farmer.

Rescue the chickens so they have a chance at life, that is until they have there heads chopped off so they can be processed and sold for food.
What a story.

Chicken tastes good.

Just have the OWS bunch shipped in from prison so they can clean and eat them…

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because the farmer was out of money, and couldn’t feed them. So they went over to the neighbors house to find some scratch.

Actually, it started on January 3rd, 2007. The day the Dimocrats took over Congress. Google can be your friend if you seek the truth.

Those chickens were going to be killed and eaten, perhaps by many of the people posting here. Yes, it’s sad the they were tortured with no food, but to rush to save their lives so we can later kill them and eat them is silly.

January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress: At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6%. George Bush’s
Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION! These are facts. The house controls the money. This downward spiral started under the control of the liberal democrats taking over both the
senate and the house. Obama , Pelosi and Reid have only made it worse.

“We going to give the chickens a second chance at life”…..so we can eat them later?

True. Feed is not cheap these days, and they would do well to give them away…provided they’re disease free.

Our operation has only a couple hundred birds and we barely break even. We only keep them because of the attraction for customers to our other, more profitable livestock product offerings.

These are, in fact, egg layers. Whether or not they are in cages is irrelevant. A farmer who has these chickens would know.

These are white leghorns. Biggest give aways are the large floppy combs and long slender bodies.

When your broiler types are allowed to reach maturity (which is cruel because of leg problems, fluid in the body cavity and cardiac issues), their combs are not as high, do not flop, and they don’t have wattles that big. Besides, there’s no use for allowing meat birds to reach maturity because they don’t breed naturally and they don’t breed true as they are usually selectively bred 3rd or 4th generation hybrids. The hatcheries that have developed them guard the “formula” very closely. lol

An egg producing farm would not have wanted the chickens. the ones that are breed for commercial meat live inside a big dark building and rarely if ever see the light of day. they get GMO feed which makes them fatten up faster but their body’s can’t handle the weight gain. Most have trouble walking and can only take a few steps before falling down. These chickens are not what you would call healthy and would not be fit for an egg farm that is a smaller operation. However Larger farms for eggs keep them in small cages all their life I’m pretty sure either way most would die.

Yep.

McDonalds has bought the whole lot of ‘em, dead and alive.

Watch for a big sale on Chicken McNuggets…. ummmmmmmm, yum!

Wow.

William Donaldson – the poster child for abortion rights.

Don’t want any more of these cretins crawling around, do we?

How about this….

Everything good is because of Me!

Everything Bad is because of Bush and the Tea Party and Congress not following me in lockstep with the Lame Street Media

Pay NO Attention to the man behind the curtain. I am the GREAT OWEBOWMORE!! Give me TRILLIONS and I guarantee the Jobs Market will improve the economy (3.2 million jobs lost) Independence from Foreign Oil (Gas prices have doubled) causing food prices and any product needing energy for delivery or manufacture to increase.

Electric cars and green energy. Most of the 8,000 Chevy DOLTS were sold to the government and/or Donors at a cost of $250,000.00 to the taxpayers.

Elect me and there will be no more Racism… Yeah and Detroit has people moving in from all around the world…

Just keep drinking the OweBowMore Kook-Aide….

Why is this man going to be charged with animal cruelty? He quit feeding the chickens because he was broke. Should he have starved himself so that he could feed the chickens? And who cares about the chickens? They are chickens. Its not like he owned a bunch of puppies or horses and quit feeding them out of spite. He is a poor man who could no longer afford to take care of his equipment (chickens).

Sopwth: check your own spelling, hon. It sucks.

1. I sure with unelected officials stop controlling the media and comments online to cover up the truth.

2. See 1.

Let’s follow this story to its logical conclusion, and don’t just leave the blame with the owner. The story actually starts with govt/ environmental regs, which restrict our access to drilling for oil and gas. After that, it’s a financiallly devastating sunami, which affects the price of everything and the lives of everyone.

Not to mention that it is Cal. and how many onerous fees and regulations have been levied against the business, before it ever got off the ground.

So, all you whining animal righters, who are givin’ them chickens some luv, take twenty of them home, and find out what your feed bill is, in a month.

I used to grow 50,000 chickens at a time for Pilgrim’s Pride, and the costs of feed and heat drove me out of business. We were always told that the birds were not ours, but just raised by us for the company. The better we did with them, the more money we made. The rare times that a grower could not finish a flock, the company came and got the birds. I don’t understand why this grower was stuck with birds he couldn’t feed? Doesn’t make sense.

While I agree with much of what you said Schteveo, no… growers are not in the business for the money. There’s not much to be had. You average $ .015 a bird for 6 weeks of hard work, after all your expenses are taken out, for the broiler type. The layer chicken growers do make a bit more, but not enough to be considered great pay. If you don’t love what you do, you’re not going to do well at all.

iT WILL HAPPEN VERY SOON TO THE HUMAN BEINGS
IT WILL BE GOD’S PUNISHMENT FOR ALL OUR ATROCITIES? TORTURES AND ABOMINATIONS
YOU BELIEVE OR NOT IT WILL HAPPEN VERY SOON

The sad issue is that we have stripped the chicken of it’s natural colors. A normal wild hen is brown in color and can avoid predators, The rooster like the Turkey is a splendidly colored bird who too has colors that give it camouflage. The reason I write this is that farmer could have released them into the wild where they would have had a chance to survive if they had their original colors. Now both Turkey and Chicken are uniformly colored white.

Exactly. Also, small farmers are forced to tag all their chickens at great expense, whereas the the mega-corporations, like Tyson, are exempt.
This is how the government works- legislating away the competition for big business.

Because you said so?

Can I get in on this?

I think everyone’s spelling is generally awsome! Let’s just try to focuss on the content of the messages.

A period goes inside the quote on a quoted statement, even if it’s at the end of a sentince, fella.

First – follow the money………1,000 to 1 the government is responsible for the debt this farmer incured so that he could no longer feed the chickens. You know the government you trun to for your money that they took from the farmer.
That money!

That’s “Egg-cactly” Mike!

Rev Wright aka obomie the commies best bud, is that you???? Youre just upset becasue youre a turkey & the chickens are your cousins

That is exactly what I thought when I read this article 4grandma

Ah yeah the tin foil hat brigade of Rupaul supporters! her youngest son is more qualified than oboma the bomber or rupaul

Anyone mention MF Global? Corizine and his buddy Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan stole $1,600,000,000 of customer money – much of that from farmers. You are going to see more stories like this as farmers go broke from the theft of their money by these banksters. In addition, you will see higher food prices if not outright shortages, as many farmers do not have the money (because of this theft) to buy the seed for the new crop plantings now.

Thanks for the story! And thank you to the compassionate commenters who realize that starving hens deserve kindness and respect too…and that does not generally involve eating them!

Anyone interested in actually helping the chickens can visit our website: animalplace.org and donate or volunteer. This is the largest farm animal rescue in California history and it was only made possible because people cared.

The hens are now settling in and enjoying their new life. They saw the sun for the first time and felt grass beneath their toes. Their eyes have gone from deadened to interested and full of life. If anyone has ever spent meaningful time with a few individual hens, they would know chickens are as engaging and entertaining as dogs and cats. It is only our perception of them that differs.

Thanks to all who took the time to contribute to saving the lives of these precious animals!

Bless you!

I work for an animal rescue group in Minneapolis, and we deal primarily with hens and roosters. I can tell you, from the experiences I’ve had over the years with these beautiful beings, my heart is filled to bursting with happiness and gratitude for the kind folks who are giving these girls a chance at a happy life. Chickens are highly intelligent creatures and make great companions. I have several, who along with my cats, make my life wonderful.

There were things that he could have done well before starving these animals. Chickens feel as much pain as any human, puppy or horse. What you are suggesting, that chickens are nothing but equipment, shows that you not fit for commenting on anything that has to do with life. You are conditioned by apathetic and pathetic society, way to go.

No, they are now being treated at local animal sanctuaries, including Animal Place quoted in this article, that value the inherent right of these animals to live out their lives in peace. These are vegan organizations which do not view other sentient creatures as food. Some chickens will be adopted out to families who will care for these birds as pets.

Thank you to those who have shown kindness and compassion by not only rescuing these poor souls but commenting in a way that shows you are human… only chickens? they feel pain and suffering….

I am so happy that the Animal Sanctuaries now have the chickens that have survived this horrific situation. They now have a chance at living the kind of life all chickens should be living….outside, in social groups, plenty of fresh food and compassion. They are living beings that are very intelligent and deserve a peaceful life.

They were taken by a rescue group, so no, they will not be eaten later.

a sane person with a heart…. thank you…

I think it’s great that hard-working volunteers from Animal Place, Farm Sanctuary and Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary gave these hens a second chance at life!

As to the negligent owner of A&L Poultry, he’d better get slapped with animal cruelty charges to the fullest extent of the law and the money should be put towards compensating these wonderful organizations for all of the time and resources they expended cleaning up his mess. Despicable! Treating a sentient being as a commodity is unacceptable!

Wow, your comment makes me incredibly sad. “Equipment”?? These are sentient, intelligent, inquisitive creatures who have emotions and feel pain. They are NO different to “puppies and horses” in this regard. The reason this happened is exactly the sentiment that you express, however – a society that views animals merely as economic commodities; and one which glorifies violence over compassion. Starving these birds was unequivocally animal cruelty; if he could no longer afford to feed the chickens, he should have reached out to these animal sanctuaries in the first place. His callousness, and yours, is absolutely astounding.

YOU GUYS CAN GO SUCK SOME EGGS

No, they went to three different farm animal sanctuaries to live out the rest of their lives.

Thank you to Animal Place and all the other rescue groups and people who have been working tirelessly to save these beautiful creatures. We saw some of them from a distance at Animal Place over the weekend. It was an amazing sight to see these birds free, enjoying the sun. At least now they will have the life they always deserved, one full of love and care.

Hey sopwith….WTH does your comment have to do with this report ?

Yes, Happy ending. May this be an example.

What do you expect from a dude who’s people eat cats and dogs, tears for chickens?

Thank you Animal Place for making this amazing rescue happen!

Let us not deceive ourselves on any form of “humane” eggs… Or other things gotten through the use or killing of others. Every life is precious.

Thank you Sacramento – CBS for covering this story!

Royd, the thing you’re missing is that there are some of us who think the story actually starts with a society that views raising animals only to kill them as an acceptable business. One that views animals as economic commodities, not as the sentient living creatures that they are. Regulations on farms that profit off of animals — which frankly do not go far enough to ensure the basic needs of these animals are met — would not need to exist if people did not engage in exploitation and violence as a business practice in the first place. As for Mike’s mention of Tyson’s exemptions, you’re going to find that with any corporation vs small business story. In this case, the real story is that chicken slaughter exists as a business at all, and the consumers who support it.

It breaks my heart when I see truck loads of poultry or cattle off to be killed. I’ve been a vegetarian since 2000 and more happy about that decision with each passing year! Not only is it good for my health but for the animals which I choose not to eat. Animals (ALL animals) are in our ‘care’ to be cared for, not neglected or hurt. They are capable of feelings as we are…

Bizarre comments on this story–do some of you need to actually advertise how inhuman you really are? Let’s be thankful that there are still humans out there that actually care for living things…Animal rescue groups hold the mirror up to our society that actually show us how desensitized we have become. This egg producer could have seen that his expenses were out of control and sold his stock before he left them to starve…good grief.

For one, he would not have made much money at all by selling them. But more to the point, chickens are sentient, intelligent, inquisitive creatures who have emotion and feel pain. They do not deserve for their lives to be reduced to mere commodities; nor for anyone to make a profit by their death; nor for people to make excuses for their pain and suffering because we humans arbitrarily label them as “food.”

Good points Royd. Maybe if farmers and industry in general were not the victims of an increasingly socialist and corrupt government, the mans business would have been cheaper to run, and had more business. The American Dream is sick, because government has been transformed from the entity that ensures fairness and equality to a giant parasitic growth that punishes industry and commerce.

Well, actually, the groups that are taking them are committed to promoting a healthy, vegan, cruelty free lifestyle. I love my cats, and cats eat chicken, But, we humans have free choice, and we can choose not to eat animals and not to inflect pain on feeling creatures. There are so many healthy delicious eating options that don’t require the consumption of meat and the exploitation of animals. I think think the real question is: Could you kill an animal with your own bare hands for the purpose of eating it? If you cannot commit that action, then you have no business eating meat.
I could never hunt an animal for food (unless my family were starving). But I have more respect for a hunter that kills his own meal, than I do for the average citizen who buys a steak packaged in plastic and has no perception of the horrors of a slaughterhouse.

Turban – yes, under the law animals are reduced to mere property, just like your snarky teddy bear reference. However, you and I both know animals are not inanimate objects. Just like we feel pain, so too do our nonhuman animal companions. Just like we have emotions, so do they. Chickens have arbitrarily been labelled “food” by omnivores who then label cats and dogs as “pets.” Do cats and dogs have an inherent right to live free from cruelty, but chickens do not? Of course not. ALL animals should be treated with respect and compassion.

Brining one of my meat birds right now. Lovely roaster, six months old, seven pounds when I dressed him out. Delish!

This is the kind of stupid gibberish that makes me glad America is going the way of Greece.

They could feed lots of hungry people

This article is making me McHungry. The three groups that adopted these chickens were Texas Pete, Tabasco and Franks Hot Sauce. I hear they are going to be testing their products. http://survive-2012-no-matter-what.blogspot.com

Yeah, I really like PITA (not). They kill 95% of the animals they take in. Just read that today on drudge.

About 4,000 of the chickens were well enough to be rescued by animal sanctuaries who will allow these chickens to live out the rest of their lives in peace. These are organizations who are supported by individuals who understand that chickens are living sentient creatures, not inanimate objects used for “food.” I understand chickens are exploited for human profit, which is why I choose not to support the industry by living a vegan lifestyle.

Your “but why care about animals when humans are suffering” argument has been made countless times before but makes no sense. Human beings are capable about caring for multiple things. I care about animals, but also about human rights, justice and environmental sustainability. We all eat. By eating vegan, any person can help make the world a better place.

Increasing access to healthful plant foods will do more for the poor than supplying them with more chicken nuggets or KFC fried chicken. And raising plant foods takes a whole lot less resources than raising animals for slaughter, making it a smart choice to feed populations who lack access.

And on a practical note, saving these chickens is not “letting” any human starve.

Why didn’t he just turn them loose?,,you know, as in ‘free range’ chickens..They’re actually pretty good at foraging..Predators would get some but it would be superior to dying of hunger..

How ignorant are you? A horse is a dog is a chicken!! They all feel the same thing!! People like you are the reason our race is FAILING!!

Ring their necks…gut’em…defeather’em…bag’em…put’em on a boat to China!

I have a hard time understanding what is supposed to be funny about Janet’s comment. These chickens, if people can open their hearts to view them as the amazing creatures that they are, are living testaments to how cruel our current system is of raising animals only to kill them. And Turban, there’s nothing natural about that. NO OTHER ANIMAL breeds its prey. In addition, the chickens that are bred in modern agriculture are absolutely nothing like their wild counterparts. They have been bred for characteristics that are beneficial to farmers. Same goes for turkeys, cows, etc. To Cody, you have the audacity to scold chickens for their behavior while under intense stress, fear, and pain that you put them in? Give me a break.

Um!! Hello Mr. Smartie guy!! I hope to see the day when you ignorant humans are no longer the supposed suoerior species! Then a big ass alien stuffs you and yours in a cage and eats your sister for dinner!!

Not only do cats eat canned meat but kill large numbers of birds, lizards, and small animals not for food but for fun when you let them”out”. I have slaughtered animals for food and have no regrets. Humans need the protein in meat and there is nothing wrong with killing them when they were bred specifically for that purpose. How any vegan could own a meat eating pet is the epitome of hypocrisy.

Can you blame him? If it’s legal to throw a newborn in a bucket to die, why not starve a few chickens?

You can’t have it both ways, people. Either you respect all life, or you respect no life. And our culture does not respect life. If you want abortion on demand, then either figure out a way to make that philosophically tenable (so far, no one has) or else don’t complain when no one cares about a bunch of starving chickens.

So you know, there is protein in many, many natural foods..You do not need meat!! You choose to eat it. That is all. Humans are weak

You are Mcignorant….Got stuff your face with that goodness and die of cancer..Good luck!!

Wow great news, these chickens have been saved! Wait a minute, saved? So your saying they will not be eaten down the road right? Wait why would we want to keep 30k chickens alive? People Chicken = FOOD

If people adopted animals there would be no need for euthanasia, which is what I’m assuming you’re referring to. Unfortunately euthanasia is often the most humane option… Which is horrifying to me, and why I only adopt. And overall PETA does a lot of good for animals… Even if their methods are sometimes controversial.

Jennifer, are you saying it’s wrong to eat chickens and other animals?

I’m pretty stout Heather, and I eat a lot of meat.

This is a horrifying story, and I’m SOOO so thankful that the rescue groups were allowed to rescue the animals that have no way to help themselves. Thank God for people like them. I hope this man is prosecuted, bigtime. There are about a million other ways he could have handled this situation without leaving animals to slowly starve to death. What an awful person…

Jennifer, are you saying we shouldn’t eat chickens or other animals?

Thank you CBS Sacramento for your wonderful report. I perceived compassion for these birds, especially the anchor man. This was an unconscionable abuse of life. Laws are needed to protect this birds from torture. Thank you for this coverage.

THE BRIGHT SIDE….. Upper exec at a Clean Energy Company got huge bonuses when they laid off 125 workers. Wonder where that government stimulus money went? I bet this farmer could have put it to use.

What kind of law would you like to see….”It is now illegal to run out of money.” Use your head lady.

The irony of your comment is that you cannot spell ‘simple’ or ‘grammar.’

As long as there are no taxpayer funds involved, go for it.

The country is going broke, we are on the brink of wide spread war, and the mini-minds are thinking about chickens?

Thank you CBS Sacramento for reporting this unfortunate story; I’m glad that at least it had somewhat of a happy ending thanks to two rescue groups that stepped in to save the remaining birds. Many thanks to them!

Or the opposite, whenever you want to say something exists you can say racist.

http://sfist.com/2012/02/24/large_naked_woman_stomps_on_car_in.php

A big thank you to the rescue groups and individuals who helped rescue these poor birds. No creature deserves such suffering.

What a tragedy! Thank you, CBS, for covering this important story. Most people have never spent any time around a chicken. They are living, feeling little beings that deserved so much more than this, but thankfully, they were rescued for a new chance at life. I think it’s a pretty scary society that only values certain animals like dogs and cats. I think this world will be much better if we can value each and every life.

Has anybody given any thought to the fact that if the rancher had lost the property to foreclosure, which it sounds like. That the foreclosing bank is responsible for the animal care not the other guy. The chickens would have been included as the equipment and property, that would have been required to be left with the property, as assets.

chickens are supposed to be dead. It would be inhumane to eat live chickens.

And what kind of a question is that? The owner didn’t just wake up one morning, realizing that he was out of food for the animals. This cruelty could have been prevented, he could have asked for help sooner.

So you would tell a senior citizen who has slipped on a side walk, unable to get up: Sorry, can’t help you, country is broke and I have more important things to think about? We are touched by things that matter to us and help where we think we can. But that doesn’t mean a bigger picture isn’t important.

That’s exactly what I was thinking, “yeah, lets make it illegal to go bankrupt” – get a brain Kate!

This is all hilarious, Worries about chicken’s destination at your grocery counter….
Find another producer, give him a cut of the chickens to pay for their upkeep, give the remainder to the homeless or poor in little packages, so they can something to eat! All this ballyhoo about these poor chickens, did anyone mention they are cannibals?

We should have kept the canal and given them chickens!

You perceived compassion???

Lady- wake up, the media manipulates emotion with every piece of news they present. Trust me – these dogs don’t give a terd about some chickens, they don’t care about me, you, or anyone else for that matter…the media is a corporate mouthpiece that is incapable of spewing anything other than propaganda!

Ummm..like a law you can’t starve chickens? I’ll bet 1) there is a law on the books and 2) killing them and eating them isn’t much better.

We need a law against people wanting laws…

They should get a hold of PETA…I understand they know how to get rid of unwanted animals real well…with a 90% success rate…

No, because human life is important and valued higher then chickens.

they where going to eat them anyways no big deal. We should make a law for stupid people like you

Kate is right. I guy (probably an illegal) didn’t run out of money by surprise. Let’s not feed him for a few days and see how he likes it.

P eople
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Andrew Keung Chung should be in Jail!
Too stupid to ask for help? Not a once of common sense!
Oh well you can’t fix stupid but you can send him to
Prison and give him some time to reflect on his Stupidity!

Who wrote the headline?

Ah-hah! Thanks! I used this as bait to rope in someone who was an editor!

I still wish they could have somehow those birds to some of our hispanic friends who drive around with their coolers of burritos , tacos , and tamales at lunch time. TThose things are f@&!ing yummy at 2 or 3 dollars TOPS and 1 or 2 IS a meal. I think it still could be utilized as a wonderful example of how we are still the land of opportunity and make a great movie.

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These are not broilers, who can only survive if they are kept on a limited diet, they are laying hens. They can live to be up to fifteen years old, though most only make it about six to eight years because they’ve been bred to lay so many eggs that they get reproductive cancers.

These are not broilers, they are laying hens, who can live quite a long time.

I have a hen at my house who is fifteen now, and in excellent health. Laying breeds are prone to reproductive cancers so their lifespan is more like 6-8 years, but I’ve known multiple laying breeds who lived to be over ten.

Chickens only cannibalize in extraordinarily stressful situations (AKA the norm for the chicken industry), or if they know a bird in their flock is likely to die. It makes perfect sense from an evolutionary perspective.

The only birds who were euthanized were those that were beyond saving.

They will not be killed at all. They will be allowed to live out their full lifespan, however long that may be.

No one will be killing or eating these hens. They will live out their lifespans and be treated with kindness.

Lol … well, no one wants chickens tortured (least I hope), but either a} they are somehow conferred the benefits of exotic animal rescue or b) (and this is my bet) … they’re fattened up and end up at Popeye’s … there is a curious asymettry in public concern between intentions and outcomes in this matter … maybe I’m crazy.

Use your head. No excuse for letting animals starve to death.

WelI I am glad that some of the chickens who had not been fed for two weeks were still healthy. But you should realize that the healthy birds managed by eating thier weak and dying cohorts. Chickens while not very unintelligent still manage to figure out what to do to survive. And if person had been stuck in there with them, the chickens would have eaten him. Just food for thought.

The level of ignorance in this thread is pathetic…these are living, breathing creatures and all life is precious and miraculous! No being should have to endure what these animals did. FInd some compassion in your hearts, not callousness.

You are right all life is precious and miraculous. Do you feel the same about human life? How about the millions of abortions in the US?