Support Our Compassionate Actions for Chickens During Kaporos

[United Poultry Concerns]

Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos
13 October 2025

Support Our Compassionate Actions for Chickens During Kaporos

The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos needs your support to continue our work as a compassionate voice for chickens. Our dedicated team and incredible network of homes can only make this happen with your support. We rescue, medically treat, and transport survivors to their forever homes all over the US. We provide water and food to thousands of mistreated birds that are crammed for days in plastic crates. We also educate practitioners about the cruelty and illegality of using chickens in the Kaporos ritual.

Thanks to a generous grant, all donations will be matched up to $15,000.

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Jill Carnegie reports, "We have rescued right around 200 birds, 22 of whom are now special needs-including wing and toe amputations, broken beaks, eye infections, one slit throat, and several with mobility issues. Transports have gone out to Virginia, California, Vermont, and Ohio, with others going to Pennsylvania and to Georgia in the coming days. Medical costs alone have crossed the $10k marker."

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This baby chicken survived the Kaporos ritual in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, including having her throat slit and being thrown out with the trash. She. was rushed to our stocked ambulance, where she received treatment. Within minutes, she was drinking on her own. She will live out her life with our rescue partner Tamerlaine Sanctuary & Preserve.

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Just because we can't save them all doesn't mean we can't show kindness. Activists provide affection and nourishment to thousands of suffering baby birds every year in the streets. We wish we could save every one of them, and we do rescue who we can. At the very least, these little beings know that not every human is a monster, and they know that someone was with them and saw them as worthy of care.

The week before Kaporos, we did outreach every day in different areas of Williamsburg and Crown Heights. On one of the days, we set up a table right outside of Chabad Headquarters. We planted many seeds with posters and video of chickens, both happy and sad. - Rina Deych

These rescued birds at their foster home experience kindness, soft grass, and warm sun for the first time.

Additional Pictures of Kaporos Practitioners in Boro Park

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The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos is a project of United Poultry Concerns.
Formed in New York City in June 2010, the Alliance is an association of groups
and individuals who seek to replace the use of chickens in Kaporos ceremonies
with money or other non-animal symbols of atonement. The Alliance does not
oppose Kaporos per se, only the cruel and unnecessary use of chickens in the
ceremony.  https://www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com

A Project of United Poultry Concerns

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