Don't forget to submit your animal-related art to the November collection!

Because of a low number of entries, the contest deadline has been extended to December 7th. Please consider participating! Also, we're still looking for people to feature the winners. Be active, for the animals!

"Behind the vast majority of every "incredible edible" egg sold in grocery stores today is a hen so intensively confined inside a wire battery cage, she can barely even move.
With just 67 square inches of space in which to live, she can't even flap her wings, let alone build a nest, perch, dust bathe, or perform many other natural behaviors.

...At the end of the laying period, the hens are flung from the battery to the transport cages by their wings, legs, head, feet, or whatever is grabbed. Many bones are broken. Chicken "stuffers" are paid for speed, not gentleness. Half-naked from feather loss and terrorized by a lifetime of abuse, hens in transit embody a state of fear so severe that many are paralyzed by the time they reach the slaughterhouse." Read more: [link]


In order to spread awareness about the horrors of the battery Hen/egg industry, the club is hosting a Bird & Egg related art contest. Any type of bird is accepted, but chicken-related is preferred.

Prizes (so far):

First prize: 3 month subscription + Journal/News features
Second prize: 1 month subscription + Journal/News features
Third prize: Journal/News features
(features are by =MichelleRamey =sassawj *afightingchance so far.)

Looking for people to donate prizes or feature the winners! (You can still enter as well, of course.) Just comment on the journal if you'd like to donate a prize or feature the winners!

Deadline: December 7th

Please read the rules before entering:

You must be a member to enter. (To join, just watch the club and add our icon/stamp to your journal.)
Any media is accepted, but it must be bird and/or egg related.
To enter, send a note titled "Contest" with the thumb to your entry.
One entry per member.
In the artist comment of the piece you enter, please include that it is an entry for this contest.

Good luck everyone!
=MichelleRamey

Bird- Related Art Feature