Urgent Plea - Battery Hens Needing Homes

Tim

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I had an email from Jo Barlow, a friend of mine last night:

"I have just got back from rehoming 700 hens today. Biggest rehoming in Cornwall. Amazing amount of girls. With last weeks 450 and next weeks 300-400 we are almost at 1500 in December.

Still thousands going to slaughter but it is an impressive number."

Due to the barren cage ban coming into force in January 2012, there are literally thousands of battery hens throughout the country needing homes this Christmas.

If you have room in your homes and your hearts for these wonderful girls who will not only provide you with free range eggs but unconditional love then please contact the British Hen Welfare Trust here

http://www.bhwt.org.uk/cms/index.php/contact-us/ to find out about rehomings near you.

You can read the original plea from Jo Barlow here: Poultry News

Please feel free to copy all or part of this message as far and wide as you can to others. The more people hear about this, the better.

Thank you for reading this. Happy Christmas to you all.

Tim
 
most of my birds are ex batts but i am totally full and cannot rehome any more until mine have all gone to chicky heaven via old age only and not illness :( if i had the home i would have booked my next lot in already .
 
i would love to give a home to some more exbatts, but my area hasnt been confirmed a date yet, i will keep checking though!
after new year i will definitely be interested in getting more! :D
 
i cant wait to get some more :D i could take on another 5 or 6 now but whats the point of over crowding them again shame i'll have to wait :( but at lesat i have done my part and rehomed about 25 in my 3 or 4 yrs as a chicken keeper i know its not many but some is better then none . recently i have had quite a few people mention to me that they are very tempted to have chickens in thier gardens and i have always mentioned getting ex batts :D
 
i only have 3, im really slacking!
unfortunately (for me) i doubt i can over crowd mine..

i also have a semi relevant question, it mentions speading the word on facebook, there was i believe a bhwt group, but i can not find it, as i want to spread the word!
 
Tim,
I'll have 2 0r 3 - would love to. Have sadly lost 2 of mine plus 2 Light Sussex, and my terrorising but georgeous Whitestar killed my RIR eventually - plus a couple of bantams she harried to death.
she is now apart from everybody. I made up my mind to replenish numbers in the new year, would be very glad to help out and take a couple of girls, I live in NW Surrey. Will get on to it, regards, Val B.
 
Tim,
I have been in touch with BHWT, and the good news is all the hens for my area have been re-homed (Guildford). There may be a cancellation, or there may be more available in January, so heres hoping. VB.
 
I know Cornwall has thousands of hens that won't be seeing the New Year :-(
May be worthwhile trying adjacent areas that aren't too far to travel too if there is a shortage...

The more people that can spread this message by posting on Facebook / Twitter / Forums or wherever the better. I've done just about all I can with it on the website, forum and facebook - it's only for a few weeks as they need the people to come forward now.

Thanks for all of your support guys.
 
ohh val sounds you are going though hell at the mo losing that amount of girls :( but well done on homing some ex batts .i use the guildford branch as well :D when i picked up my last 8 birds i told the woman they are all called lilly poos and she thought it was very funny .
 
Hi Karminski,
All in all it has been a rotten few weeks hen loss wise, did'nt think it could happen to me. I also lost my original hen, Sally, who was so tame, nosy, busy, entertaining, and downright cute, beautiful and bright. She learned to use the cat flap in a nano second when the door to the utility room slammed shut on her and she was on a cat food hunt!! She was one of my original two Warrens, and I did shed some tears when I found her lifeless but still warm one morning last week. She used to try to nick cigarettes from my daughter when she was smoking, she gave us so many laughs at her antics, she will not be easily forgotten. You could not teach a creature be as loving and funny and entertaining as Sally, or to have such a sweet nature, she was a rare and wonderful little hen and is sadly missed.
 
Marigold,
thanks for your note and sympathy; I'm sure a lot of people cannot shed tears over a mere hen (especially a hybrid), but what a character. Small, neat and more than memorable, she will always be part of our hen lore, and absolutely irreplaceable. Thanks again, Valerie.
 
she sounded so wonderfull :D :D we all shed a tear when we lose our chocks even my mum has and she cant go near them in case they bite her :roll: i know she dont hasnt got it that they dont have teeth .

god rest your soul sally 0:-)
 
Valeriebutterley , dont be silly, well put it this way if you don't at least feel like shedding year then your heartless and cold, normal people grow attached to there baby's, I have 3 little baby's I care so much for them I would be heart role. If anythin happens to them I dread the day if it comes prematurely , you sound like you lost your little mate, feel so sorry for you....
Z
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Tim it's so sad I wish I had a farm I would take as many as I possibly could it's such a sad thing happening. Good for future but very sad right now and it upsets me so badly I feel really down,
 
Thank you all so much for you response. Today we rescued and rehomed 400 hens in Cornwall (making a total of over 1500 in Cornwall in the past 2 weeks). Tomorrow we are going into the farm to rescue the last 1200 hens. Some will be housed at Camelford in Cornwall until we can find homes and some will be off to Devon/Hampshire etc for rehomings there. The main thing is that they have escaped the slaughter lorry.
I appreciate it is a bad tim eof year for rehoming but if you or anyone you know can take in a few more hens then we will be forever grateful. Also if you could tweet and facebook about it, it is amazingly productive. Please email [email protected] if you can offer a home to a Cornish ex-batt or contact http://www.bhwt.org.uk/cms/index.php/contact-us/ if you are elsewhere in the country.
Thank you for your help and support and especially to Tim
Jo xxx
 
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