🐓🍕💚 Join Second-Hen’d, St. Louis’ leading “spent hen” adoption nonprofit, as they celebrate 10 years of saving hens from being killed!
At this joyous community celebration, you can:
🍕 Enjoy delicious vegan pizza from Pizza Head
💚 Connect with the leaders spearheading this critical, life-saving work
🐔 Meet the chickens themselves and spend quality time with them
🎓 Learn about chickens’ personalities, needs, and remarkable capacity for companionship
🏡 Discover how Second-Hen’d helps former egg-industry hens find safe, loving forever homes
🐣 Ten Years of Second Chances
Second-Hen’d was “hatched” in 2016 after founder Erica Camp searched for a Missouri organization dedicated to rehoming former commercial egg-laying hens and discovered that no such local organization existed. Rather than accept that these hens had nowhere to go, she created Second-Hen’d.
The all-volunteer nonprofit works with commercial egg facilities to save hens who would otherwise be killed after the industry determines that their egg production is no longer profitable. Although these birds are commonly labeled “spent” at only one or two years old, they can still have many happy, meaningful years ahead of them.
Second-Hen’d carefully places the hens with committed adopters who promise to protect them, never sell or kill them for meat, and provide them with permanent, loving homes. By April 2025, the organization had already helped more than 1,000 chickens begin the next chapter of their lives.
🐔 Chickens Are Someone, Not Something
Second-Hen’d does more than rehome hens. Through public education, community programs, and personal encounters with the birds themselves, the organization helps people recognize chickens as intelligent, social, emotionally complex individuals.
Their outreach has included chicken-care classes, school and library visits, and the Chooks with Books program, which gives children—including children with autism—opportunities to read, learn, and enjoy positive sensory experiences alongside chickens.
Every hen Second-Hen’d saves is an individual: someone with her own personality, preferences, friendships, and desire to live. By finding adopters and forever homes, Second-Hen’d gives hens once treated as disposable commodities the opportunity to be valued as beloved family members.
🥳 Celebrate the Hens (and the Humans Helping Them!)
Whether you are interested in adopting hens, want to learn more about chickens, or simply love animals and vegan pizza, you belong at this Summer Flock Party!
Come celebrate a decade of compassion, meet some unforgettable feathered friends, and honor the volunteers and adopters who have helped save more than a thousand hens from being killed.
Together, we can build a community where no animal is considered “spent” and where every hen has the opportunity to live safely, happily, and freely.
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