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When Anna Penn's flock of 3,000 hardy hens stop pecking and look up, they can watch waves crashing into the shore. They're residents at New Zealand's southernmost commercial egg farm, overlooking Te Waewae Bay in Southland.

A Waikato animal sanctuary is determined all 2000 battery hens will be adopted in its latest rescue. The Brown Shavers can live up to 10 years, but are slaughtered after 18 months. Photo: Public domain The birds will be taken from an unidentified egg farm which is due to close its doors mid-year before the ban on battery cages is introduced next year. Franklin Farm Sanctuary Founder Sally Hart said she "will do whatever it takes" to ensure each of the Brown Shavers are freed before time runs o...