Hilda was one of Dan's and Rebecca's rescue chickens.
She was rescued by Dan and Rebecca in February 2023 at the age of 18 months, from a hen farm which slaughters the hens when they reach that age. She passed away June 9th, 2023.
Life[]
Hilda was named after Hilda Spellman from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. While the farm she came from was officially termed "free-range", Dan and Rebecca have said the living circumstances there were still "quite awful". When she was rescued, Rebecca described her as a chicken that "pretends to be an idiot but isn't" and their club's "clever hen" [1]. As she settled into the lovely coop and living space Dan and Rebecca has built for her and the other chickens, she bloomed a little and gained back some feathers.
Following the sudden discovery of a large tumour, Hilda passed on June 9th, 2023.[2]