AR-News: (US) Buckeye hens strut to freedom at animal sanctuary

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[from Cleveland Plain Dealer]

And that is how 1,048 hens, which had lived their 90- to 95-week lives
caged at Buckeye Egg Farm's Croton, Ohio, facility, found freedom Monday
afternoon at Oohmahnee Farm, an 86-acre farmed animal sanctuary in western
Pennsylvania, near the tiny town of Hunker.

The hens were released by Buckeye, which is under state order to shut down
its 15-million hen operation. Volunteers from the Pittsburgh area took the
hens from Ohio that morning in cooperation with Buckeye officials.

Although the heat and turmoil of a three-hour trip killed about a dozen
hens, the rest rapidly settled into what hens do best - they acted like
chickens. 
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To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:

fhenry at plaind.com, 216-999-4806 

full story:
http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living/1060255801297010.xml

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