Buffy the chicken faces the bald truth

Buffy the bald battery hen has been knitted a special jumper to keep her warm until her feathers grow back.

The chicken was desperately underweight when rescued and was in danger of shivering to death.



So an RSPCA volunteer used a baby outfit to make a woolly for Buffy, who is being cared for at the Brent Knoll centre near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

'When Buffy arrived she looked like she was oven-ready,' said deputy manager Emma Phillips. 'Sadly, we occasionally find hens in this state when we rescue them.'

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