2 Hens Rescued From Abandoned Mink Farm, in Solidarity With Zoe Rosenberg (USA)

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Two weeks ago, we visited one of the mink farms at a location not mentioned here for security reasons. After trudging through the woods and blackberry bushes for hours, since the farm was in such a remote location, we saw the sheds we were looking for for so long, and heard dogs barking somewhere far away. This property was so comfortable being hidden from the human eye that they did not even care to install a fence, other than some waist high barbed wire.

It was particularly silent in the sheds and we started to fear that this farmer already skinned their prisoners. How surprised were we, when cracking open the first barn door, we were met with not-less-surprised chickens, a split second of silence and eye-to-eye stare, followed by their confused chirp. We decided to leave them confused for a bit longer and go investigate the other barns.

Upon entering each of the following barns, we discovered either completely empty barns, empty mink cages, or mink cages dismantled into a metal pile. To make sure there is no mink left hostage, including the breeder stock, we opened the last barn that stood slightly aside from others, making us think that it would be the most likely location of the breeder mink. That barn, like the first one, made a surprised chicken chirp upon opening.

This farmer just recently made a switch from mink farming to the “cage-free” egg industry, and was dismantling the mink cages. But we still had some homies to help, so we came back to the first barn and took 2 hens away from their fate at the egg-laying farm life. We are sad we could take only 2, but we could not take more because of all the blackberry jungles and tools we already had on our hands. We regret not smashing every egg in those barns for hens to eat. But we learned that even in 2025, some (ex-)mink farmers have no fence or alarms.

Almost anyone with enough determination to end fur industry can pick a good target and do it. These 2 chickens now have lives that they did not even dream about, and to everyone activist out there still being on the fence: cut through it instead. They deserve it.

P.S. Rescued in solidarity with Zoe Rosenberg, Animal rescue is NOT a crime.

P.S. Although the exact location was not mentioned in the communique, it was relayed to people making the updated list of fur farms so that everyone can soon know that this farm is closed now.