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Post by jazz on Feb 18, 2011 9:07:27 GMT
This rescue in wales has just taken in 400 chickens.they have many other animals needing homes. Please take a look Thank you xx www.trallwmfarm.org.uk/
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Post by bullt on Feb 20, 2011 9:25:05 GMT
If anybody has space and keeps 'chooks' these ex battery hens are well worth rehoming. I went with friends who took some from Little Hen Rescue in East Anglia - they looked such scruffy girls , bare patches all over, some were nearly bald and came with little knitted jackets ( memo to the Krafty Knitters brigade ! ) but they quickly adapted to the real life and loved being able to run around and look for food & worms in the garden. They will live for years and always do their best with tasty eggs for your table.
I hope that rescue gets a mention on their local radio, because the ones up here did and it helped rehome very many birds.
x naomi
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Post by jazz on Feb 20, 2011 9:31:57 GMT
thank you for that xxxx a lot of people keep chickens now, so hope they can be rehomed. even taking 1 or 2 gets the numbers down. if you and friends want some, then one person can collect for a few people
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Post by sars on Feb 20, 2011 15:03:18 GMT
Well done to Lesley for rescuing such an amount I love chickens, and would really love to have a couple. That'd been possible before Pud - but I am pretty sure she'd chase e'm, Yoda'd plague 'em too The Little Hen Rescue is Fab - they have specially knitted jumpers for the poor hens that come in bald (from being kept in tiny boxes all their lives) - and new adopters can meet up on a 'chicken run'.. they've done so much for 'battery hens'.
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Post by cathrynlisa on Feb 21, 2011 19:58:13 GMT
Ex Batts make fab pets - I've got seven along with 3 'posh' chicks and 2 ducks. These two I got from the Little Hen Rescue, they were completely bald except on their scraggy wings - this is a before and after of them to try to get my message across on FB about not buying caged hen eggs: Unfortunately, I haven't any more room at the moment, but it is very rewarding and not at all difficult to rehome ex batt hens
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Post by amanda71 on Feb 21, 2011 20:02:32 GMT
well done Cathrynlisa I only buy free range too - why line the pockets of abusers!
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Post by sars on Feb 22, 2011 15:31:53 GMT
Wow!!!! That transformation is amazing - well done you! I have a local friend who has converted 1/2 her garden to rescued ex batts - she calls them all 'her girls'- they all arrived so bald and sad
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Post by girlytrude on Feb 23, 2011 1:09:06 GMT
Also an ex batt fan. I had a number of hens until a change in circs meant I had to rehome them (all went to a lovely lady with a free-range small-holding). I had some 'breeder bought' (until I knew I could manage a hens care properly and understood how they should behave) and then some ex batts and the ex batts were the best. So friendly and so much fun. XX
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Post by cinoby on Feb 23, 2011 10:02:01 GMT
We had 4 little bantam girlies until some lowlife stole them. They just disappeared. OH went to 'tuck them in' one evening and was chatting away to them until he opened the door to head count and they were nowhere. We thought it must be foxes or some other predator but there wasn't a sign - not even a feather. Surely if it was a predator we would have seen some sign of a struggle. Whether it was coincidence or not our fence was broken at the same time.
Anyway I am in the middle of persuading OH to take on some ex battery hens - he is slightly reluctant as he says we have enough animals 'with issues'! From what I read ex battery hens are incredibly friendly and surprisingly outgoing. I read the link that Jazz put on about the hens in Wales but it would be more practical if I could find some nearer where I live. I have found a rescue in Guildford Surrey who are doing a 'run' or whatever they call it in early March. We have one hen house but would like to get a couple more. So, back on the internet searching for sensibly priced houses!!!!!!
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Post by trea on Mar 7, 2011 16:46:15 GMT
Are they easy to keep, chickens? How expensive are the houses?
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Post by cinoby on Mar 7, 2011 20:12:15 GMT
Yes, chickens are easy to keep. The more time you spend with them the friendlier they are. They take themselves to bed at dusk and you just need to feed them and water them. You do need to make sure that their home is fox proof and you would need to read up on one or two little things such as red mite which is controlled by a powder.
They are great fun and surprisingly calming - don't know why!
The houses come in all different shapes and sizes and at all different prices. We got ours from the internet - can't remember exactly but there are loads to choose from. We have just bought two new houses from a web site with chicken coops in the title. I will post again if I can find it. We are waiting for our 8 ex battery chickens to come. Unfortunately we missed the run on Saturday as the two new houses hadn't been delivered.
Go for it - it is very rewarding and the immense pride you get when you get your own eggs is ridiculous but a lovely feeling!
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Post by cinoby on Mar 7, 2011 20:14:57 GMT
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Post by trea on Mar 7, 2011 20:15:37 GMT
We got permission for the housing people to have..3 I think they said..a little while back. But we need to wait for the rat group to get smaller before we add anymore pets. 22 animals in total is more then enough right now lol
Is three a big enough group for the chickens?
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Post by angela on Mar 7, 2011 23:05:50 GMT
Hello. Just read with much interest. I have only a small garden so would ask if you need a large garden ?. Do you let them wander around or do you just let them stay in a enclosure ?. And like the question above can you have 3/4 or need more for them to be happy. Thank you
Angela
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Post by cinoby on Mar 7, 2011 23:26:55 GMT
I'm not an expert but I think 2 or 3 would be fine. We had 4 and they were very happy together. We let ours just run around loose quite happily and they put themselves to bed! I know some people have them in small back gardens and provided they can peck the ground and have got food and water they should be fine. I think there are some people on here who are experienced hen keepers. Give them a nudge!
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Post by angela on Mar 8, 2011 14:53:20 GMT
Thank you Cinoby. Great advice so kind of you. Could someone tell me who keeps hens please. Thank you
Angela x
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Post by qwokka on Apr 26, 2011 21:55:10 GMT
Hi Angela,my friend has four and are so very happy,and look so good now after being so sad to look at,they are so happy now,it shows!!,she loves them,so go ahead and say YES ,Happy days- qwokka--Irene
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Post by girlytrude on Apr 27, 2011 11:14:16 GMT
3 is a good number. As with any group, one will be 'top hen', so if you only have 2 that can mean one being buillied by the boss. 2 underlings with a boss are always happier. They can be kept penned, so long as they have some good scratching area (you can put down bark mulch which is full of lovely bugs for them to scratch and find if you haven't got lawn), or you can let them out during daylight hours to free roam the garden, and return them safely to their coop at night. Be aware though that if permanently penned on one area of lawn you won't have a lawn left in a very short space of time! These are a couple of my ex batts on arrival: and just a few months later mingling with the breeder bought hens...impossible to tell the difference! and yes, that is a dog in there with them sharing their food! XX
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Post by cinoby on Apr 27, 2011 14:21:55 GMT
We picked up our 11 girls on Easter Sunday? They are ex batts or to be more precise, ex barn. Don't let anyone fool you that barn eggs are kinder than batts. They aren't really. These girls have their beaks clipped so they won't hurt each other so much but it is done without any pain relief and is extremely painful. Goodness knows what state these girls would be in if they didn't do this - I don't advocate it at all but our little ladies are minus an awful lot of feathers and have very sore skin etc.
However, we do have rather a large crop of eggs!! Giving them away to all and sundry .......... Can't eat them fast enough!!
Great fun to have and very rewarding.
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Post by nancy4 on May 5, 2011 11:32:57 GMT
oh im glad i saw this post were looking into getting some chuck's now that we have a mahoosive back garden just gotta convince hubby that its a great idea
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Post by jazz on May 5, 2011 15:24:36 GMT
my neighbours have hens, got some eggs off them the other day, hope they remember us again as they said they have a load. the dogs had flapjacks made with them lol
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Post by misspink77 on Dec 21, 2011 7:45:12 GMT
i know this post is old but are any of the chickens availible still ? reason i ask is my daughter works on a farm and they keep chickens so im sure that her boss would take all of them xxxx
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Post by jazz on Dec 21, 2011 8:14:53 GMT
if you look on the website and give her a call, im sure she will tell you xxxx
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Post by cinoby on Dec 21, 2011 10:28:03 GMT
The British hens welfare trust is having to rehome 500 girls on 29th dec. they are apparently the last ex batt Hens in Surrey because of legislation change. We are getting another 5. It's well worth getting in touch with them as they have collections all over the country.
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Post by misspink77 on Dec 21, 2011 16:06:38 GMT
ty ladies i will tell the boss xxxxx
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Post by Kimberleigh on Jan 9, 2012 14:34:02 GMT
Enjoyed this post immensely! In our house we call non free-range eggs "cruelty eggs" and won't buy them. We do have to be thrifty so we don't always go for organic/fair trade but it's always worth the extra money to buy eggs from chookies that lived closer to how ours lived when I was raising them myself in Michigan! Man, awesome memories... Chickens are such endearing little pets, and hens are the gift that keeps on giving with their tasty eggs each morning! We started them as 2day chicks in a makeshift cardboard-box brooder in my bedroom... I came home from school one day to find they'd all found out how to get out of the box and my room was taken over by 12 little chickies just starting to lose their fluff. Hilarious to watch, they're always so busy and the ladies gossip amongst themselves like little fishwives, meanwhile the males strut around as though they're guarding the royals' gold, chickens are just a scream. Can't wait to have a little more space again so I can keep a couple goats for milking and some fowl for eggs. Never thought to look in rescue for livestock, what a great idea! That'll be our first stop when we are ready to get started some day. Though heaven knows, we're a long way from being ready to be homeowners... but I do keep dreaming!
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Post by amieg on Jan 10, 2012 18:27:59 GMT
I Love my girls they are so inquisitive being stuck in that awful cage, not being able to do a thing must be a living hell
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Post by misspink77 on Jan 11, 2012 22:49:07 GMT
if anyone has any chickens that need rehomeing my daughter works on a farm in hipley ( near denmead, south ) plz give the owners a call on 02392 632363 ( working hours ) x
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