KAZIK’S STORY AND THE EGG INDUSTRY
Today is my 33rd birthday. While I am sitting here thinking about all the past years, I also think about how many animals don’t even make it to their 3rd day of life.
Usually, male chicks in the egg industry don’t make it past their first day of life. They are seen as a waste product as they can’t lay eggs and aren’t big enough for broilers (meat) and are therefore useless to create any profit. That is why they get killed by suffocating them, drowning them, or macerating them. Worldwide, around 7 billion male chicks are culled per year in the egg industry.
I want to use today’s post to tell you about Kazik and how he came to live at the sanctuary Kurza Lapka Azyl in Poland. His birth is a miracle and although it may seem beautiful, the background of the whole story is frightening.
When Kazik was still inside the egg he was stolen from his mother and sold in a box with other eggs at a market in the Czech Republic. When the person who bought the eggs came home to cook dinner, she heard a soft noise and the shell of Kazik's egg began to break.
How was it possible that the egg was fertilized and Kazik was born? In smaller villages, the roosters stay with the hens. Therefore, each egg can be fertilized and the fetus can be in different stages of development when people steal the natural incubator of chicks, the egg.
Kazik was in the egg for too long, and in the last crucial moments before hatching, he was taken away from his mother, moved, and turned. That is why he was born with a twisted body.
His head is curled up on the left side as if he was trying to fit the shape of the egg he grew in. Because of his condition, he has difficulty walking and is unable to eat or drink on his own. He must be under constant watch and care.
If people would just not touch what is not theirs, Kazik would be born healthy and strong.
The wish I have for my birthday is to raise as much money as possible together to give to this wonderful sanctuary that does anything to provide the best life for their fosterlings and others.
Please support Kazik with a donation!
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🐔 Kazik | @kurzalapka_azyl
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