Mesa Escaped Life as a Breeding Hen in a Cockfighting Ring; Today Lives to Love
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Mesa is a jungle fowl hen, and while she was lucky enough to find sanctuary, vast numbers of jungle fowl like her do not. Jungle fowl are a favored breed in cockfighting — where the males endure vicious and deadly fights for human entertainment, and the females are often kept in miserable conditions. So when she was found by the Orange County Humane Society, they reached out to us at Farm Sanctuary to find placement for her. Mesa was probably used as a breeding hen in a cockfighting operation — forced to produce young roosters who would in turn be forced into combat. (Often, these cruel and illegal operations even outfit the roosters with sharp knives strapped to their legs to cause the greatest possible amount of damage to their opponents.)
Mesa's story at http://www.animalsoffarmsanctuary.com/post/150092184971/mesa-from-brutality-to-sanctuary-blueberries