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18 December 2018
UPC Needs Your Support This Holiday Season
Holiday Greetings from United Poultry Concerns
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[Photo of Rainbow the rooster and Karen Davis by Unparalleled Suffering]
From Our Hearts to Yours
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Reginald and Jewel enjoy quiet time together in our sanctuary yard.
[Photo of UPC sanctuary ducks by Rich Cundari]
Thank You for Your Support
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I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you do. I
think about chickens, turkeys, and other poultry all the time and how
tremendously they suffer in this world. My heart breaks for them every
minute. The unrelenting education and rescue work that you do is invaluable
and truly makes a monumental difference for these intelligent, sensitive
souls. Rachel Lang
Your continuous awareness-changing work and the tender loving care that
you give to our feathered friends is awesome. And your Poultry Press
Magazine and all it contains is the greatest . . . love the vegan recipes!
Wandis Wilcox
So this year, despite our official no-chick-hatching policy at our
sanctuary, we welcomed an unexpected family of five baby chicks who were
sneaked into existence by a hen and a rooster we adopted with 48 others in
July 2018 from a cockfighting raid in Virginia Beach. Mother Hen and Brandy
Alexander are the parents of this flourishing family who blended in
effortlessly with our other chickens, our ducks and our peafowl from the
moment they were born, in May this year, in a snug tree hollow that we
missed while gathering our hens eggs to prevent such surprises.
When I discovered the chicks under the soft breast feathers of their Mother
Hen, as I began calling her, I was shocked, but enchanted. What a privilege
to observe this hens parental care of these tiny peeping souls new to a
world they had already come to know intimately as they grew inside their
eggs.
My favorite part of their day is in the evenings when they are clamoring for
their own branch spaces in the big bush theyre determined to roost in with
their elders. A lot of rustling in the leaves! A lot of fuss! Their voices
are still young, and they are not quite full grown. They dart through the
trees during the day, at once skittish and bold, wary and curious, always
watchful, listening, intensely alive.
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[Left: Brandy Alexander & Family. Photo by Karen Davis, July 12, 2019]
There are five of them: Kahlua, the rooster, and his sisters: Sprig, Sprout,
Sesame, and Dee Dee in lovely feather shades of brown, beige, auburn, gray,
and white.
United Poultry Concerns educates people not only about the suffering and
abuse of chickens, but about the sweetness, vibrancy, pride, and joy of
chickens and our love for them. Our sanctuary is a key part of our mission
to advocate for chickens authoritatively based on our personal observations
and daily interactions with them.
For every lie their exploiters propagate, we tell the truth.
2020 marks our 30th year since I founded UPC in October of 1990 at a time
when some people in the animal advocacy movement cautioned that an
organization focusing on chickens and turkeys could not succeed. How wrong
they were!
With your caring and generous support, we will advocate relentlessly for
chickens, turkeys, ducks and other domestic fowl in 2020 and beyond.
On behalf of every blessed bird on Earth, we thank you for your continuing
support for our work, and we wish you joy and prosperity in the year ahead.
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Our Work for the Birds Depends on Your Support!
Sincerely,
Karen Davis, PhD
President & Founder United Poultry Concerns
United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization. Federal ID: 52-1705678.
All donations are tax-deductible. A financial statement is available on
written request to the Office of Consumer Affairs, PO Box 1163, Richmond,
Virginia 23218. Our 990 tax forms, Annual Reports & Audits are posted on our
website at [link removed]. To view these documents, click on
About UPC on our homepage at [link removed].
Thank you.
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United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes
the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
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