A School Hatching Programme Stole This Chick’s Life: RIP Chickpea

Meet Chickpea. This poor little guy is the sad and tragic reality of a local school’s hatching programme, and he was brought to us the week before last having been squashed and injured in his incubator by the other chicks. He was left all day without any help and ended up with severe physical deformities because of this – if he wasn’t in these cramped conditions in the first place, he would have never been squashed. School staff are not equipped nor do they have the experience to deal with situations like this, and the 5 animal freedoms (see here) which all animals deserve, were not met – a vet should have been called out to this baby. Tragically, despite our best efforts our love couldn’t save him, and he passed away at just a week old. Chickpea is the very epitome of why school hatching projects are so very wrong.

Please do help us spread the word by sharing this blog and speaking out if your school is involved, or thinking of being involved in this needless cruelty. It will be in the coming months that these ‘projects’ begin, so do share now, ahead of time, so that we can really make a difference.

Please do share our blog on this unnecessary, antiquated teaching programme, especially with any schools that you know are participating in such ‘projects.’

The sad truth of hatching programmes in schools