Rooster Rescuer Lisa Short

Roosters can be tragic figures.

 

The reality is, for every hen in a backyard flock, there is a rooster, her brother, that almost certainly didn’t live happily ever after.

 

Lisa Short, from the Victorian-based Rooster Warriors Rehoming, tries to make a small dent in this unfortunate aspect of chicken keeping by helping find homes for hundreds of roosters. 

 

Most of those roosters, she says, come from kinder and school hatching programs, which she'd like to see banned. 

 

From rooster dumping to crow collars and night boxes that allow roosters to be kept where you otherwise probably couldn’t, Lisa ventures into some uncomfortable territory in this conversation, in hopes of raising awareness.