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Mother Clucker's Microsanctuary, Leicester, NC (2025)

08/05/2025

Lucy and Myles.

Two little love birds.

They are a couple.

They not only love one another, they absolutely adore each other.

Chickens form relationships that are no different from the relationships us humans form.

In all the ways that truly matter, we are the same.

08/05/2025

It's a rainy cool morning here today.

The temperature is 64°F.

This weather feels bizarre.

Just last week we were in a heatwave.

08/04/2025

Lucky Lucks ❤️

Lucky is our oldest resident.

She's at least 9-10 years old.

When I rescued her, in 2018, she had a broken pelvis and severe osteoporosis. The osteoporosis was from laying eggs.

When hens lay the unnatural amount of eggs that the industry bred them to lay, their body can't keep up.

Eventually they start pulling calcium and minerals from their bones so they can create the egg shells.

Lucky went straight to our vet after she was rescued. Our vet had a difficult time reading her x-rays. Her bones looked like cob webs because of her severe osteoporosis.

Lucky had fallen off of a truck, along with two of her sisters.

Her sisters didn't survive.

I'll never forget Lucky's rescue and the first time she was able to stand up and walk.

She was so proud.

And I was so proud of her.

Although I cared for her during her healing, her heart belongs to Mike.

Lucky and Mike have the most beautiful connection.

The two of them were meant to find each other in this great big world.

08/03/2025

Donna and I got another panel finished today and two more panels put up on The Luka Family's run!

The 2 x 4's that you see, that are diagonal in the front, are support boards. They're holding the panels up, until we get the front door panel finished and attached.

Jackson checked out their new space. He said he approves and gave it two wings up!

Thanks Jack Jack!

It's always good to get a chicken's opinion when you're building a chicken space.

Next up is the door panel and the roof support.

I can't believe we're almost there!

I keep looking at their run coming together and I'm not only feel excitement, but I also keep feeling tons of gratitude.

Gratitude for your help in being able to help rescue The Luka Family. Gratitude for Donna's help and guidance. Gratitude for Ira's help.

After Donna and I cleaned up from our work earlier today, we gave Ira a cut list. When I left he was getting ready to cut the wood for the roof support and door.

Eleven days ago I didn't know if this could happen or not. I was feeling a lot of anxiety and fear.

Eleven days later and this is where we are!

Thank you for helping rescue The Luka Family.

Every penny that has been donated to their fundraiser, to make this happen, means absolutely everything.

Thank you for helping us to be able to help three survivors who are in need of a safe and loving sanctuary home. ❤️🐓❤️

08/02/2025

Thank YOU!!!

Thanks to your kindness and generosity for The Luka (Tomato) Family, we reached our fundraising match!!! We actually even went over!

I am so deeply grateful for your help and I am so deeply grateful for our village who has come together to help bring The Luka Family home.

It is a big ask, to ask for help with funding so we could build a brand new run, and to ask for help with other supplies that are needed for a new flock.

I honestly wasn't sure if we could do it, but we did, and it's ALL because of YOU!

Absolutely amazing! I hope Luka and the girls can feel everything that you have done for them, and that we are doing here, so we can welcome them to the sanctuary life. ❤️

Thank you to my friend Donna for jumping right into this journey with me and helping me build a new home for The Luka Family. It's been a great learning experience. It's also been a lot of hard work and time consuming. I'm so incredibly grateful for your help and guidance on this massive project.

Yesterday and today, Donna and I got four panels covered with hardware cloth AND we got three of the run panels up today! Woo hoo! It is very exciting!

We will be working on their run tomorrow and hoping to make a trip to Lowe's to get roofing materials, more hardware, other items we need to finish their run and also a new sheet of wood to replace the top of the coop they will be using. Unfortunately the wood, on the top of the coop they will be using, has some rotting issues.

Three panels are up! I can't believe it!

Thank you Mike for helping us level the panels. I know you weren't expecting to do that today, on your day off, but we really appreciated your help.

What a day!

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to make this possible!

If anyone asks you "what have you done lately to help an animal in need?"

You can tell them "I helped rescue three chickens from a cockfighting animal cruelty case."

Then you can show them a photo of Luka and two beautiful hens.

That's pretty flipping awesome.

YOU are the light that brighten this, often times, dark world. ❤️

08/01/2025

Roosters hormones peak in the evening. And boy does Mason's peak. He gets very wound up.

Sam and Patsy don't like it at all. He can get a little intense.

So when I go out to give Mason his heart med and serve dinner salads, I separate him.

He stays in the roofed run and Sam and Patsy stay in the attached run.

That way Sam and Patsy can eat dinner in peace and Mason has space to calm down in so he can eat too.

It's an evening routine they are all used to.

07/31/2025

Holy wattles Jack Jack!!!

Jackson had those wattles of his flying through the air as he snacked on some oregano!

I've never seen anything like it. 😄

He's like a mad scientist oregano eater.

07/31/2025

Luka (Tomato) had his surgery and he did great!

He got the bumble cleaned out of his foot and I imagine all the necrotic tissue too. The vet did not see an abscess under Luka's injured eye, or infection. He only saw scar tissue. There was nothing there to clean out.

Luka will be on an antibiotic and anti-inflammatory for the next couple of weeks.

He will be spending the night at the hospital. When he is released from the vet, he'll be in Audrey's care.

I sure hope Bird gets to visit him. This video is of him and Bird over the weekend. ❤️

Luka went from experiencing the hands of cruelty to experiencing the hands of compassion.

The hardware cloth for The Luka's Family's run arrived today. Donna and I will be getting roofing and other building supplies hopefully on Friday. I'm hoping to get the hardware cloth put on the panels this weekend.

We can't wait to get everything built so The Luka Family can come home.

Until then I take great comfort in knowing that Luka and the hens are in the best of hands and hearts.

Thank you Audrey and Bird for taking such loving care of him. I'm so very grateful for you.

If you are able to help with the cost
of Luka's surgery please make a donation to Good Sprout Rescue and Sanctuary.

PayPal: [email protected]
Venmo: goodsproutrescue

I can't even tell you how relieved I am that his surgery is over and now Luka can begin his recovery and healing. ❤️

07/30/2025

Excuse me ma'am, do you have any Grey Poupon?

~ Jackson

07/30/2025

Tomato is having surgery for his bumble foot tomorrow. During his surgery, they are also going to clean out his infected eye (an injury from being forced to fight).

He is not with me, but I think about him all the time, every day.

I already feel a connection with him, even though we haven't met yet. I have been loving him from afar and I look forward to him coming home.

While I look at his photos a new name keeps coming to my mind. I keep calling him Luka.

When I looked it up, Luka means a bringer of light. Someone who inspires hope and inspiration in others.

I think it's the perfect name.

The dark life he has lived is now a life of light, thanks to Bird and Good Sprout Rescue and Sanctuary.

Light, hope and inspiration.

That's what I see when I look at this precious being. And that's what I feel when I think of everyone who has been helping the birds in this horrific animal cruelty case.

Please keep Luka in your thoughts tomorrow. And please keep Jerry in your thoughts too. Jerry was released from the hellhole site because he needed medical attention too. Jerry will also be having surgery tomorrow.

Please wish them both a safe and successful surgery. Anaesthesia makes me nervous, but it especially makes me nervous with birds.

I've asked Audrey to please update me tomorrow after Luka's surgery.

I'll update you too.

May we all be the light, hope and inspiration in this world that often times feels so dark.

Thank you Bird and Audrey for taking such good care of him. I haven't had to worry because I know he is in the best of hands and hearts. ❤️

07/30/2025

Lucy had her last bumble foot soak today! The bumble came out and that was that! Goodbye bumbles!

Lucy's bumbles were very small and minor so it only took a week of soaks, prid and wraps for it to clear out.

She got used to the bumble foot soak routine and I got to practice wrapping her feet one handed.

I'm used to wrapping Jackson's feet one handed. He has big feet so it's easier.

It was good to get practice in with Lucy's little feet.

I'm so glad her bumbles are gone! She had one on each foot.

I'm going to the mulch yard on Friday to put in another truckload mulch delivery order.

Everyone's runs need another round of mulch put down so their ground is soft to walk on.

Lucy is the cutest most beautiful chicken.

I had to include a front on photo. Lucy has the fluffiest earmuffs and beard.

Her neck feather colours are so pretty.

07/28/2025

Jackson wrote a little ditty and I gotta say it's a very catchy tune.

He titled it:

🏵️ I'm Gonna Go to the Gardens 🏵️

I'm gonna go to the gardens

I'm gonna go to the gardens

I'm gonna go to the garrrrrrdens

And eat my mama's plants!

He sings it to the tune of the Let's All Go To The Lobby song they used to play at the drive ins and movie theaters. You got a be older like me to know what he's talking about. How he knows? I have no idea. He's not even two years old yet. Makes me think he has a phone stashed somewhere.

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