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Run entirely by volunteers, we rehome ex commercial hens and ducks throughout England and Wales.

11/11/2024

A new date for Biggin Hill Fresh Start for Hens 🥳

Sunday 24th November - hens from South Wales in need of homes 🥰

If you can help, please register on the website https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/

06/11/2024

There are still a few hens available for 9th November.
Please message the page if you can help ❤️

05/11/2024

01/11/2024

It’s Chickmas Eve ❤️

Vans are loaded and our volunteers are battling Friday evening traffic to the hotel, ready for a 04:30 start tomorrow..

Drivers take: clean crates, cat carriers for poorly hens, first aid (for chickens and people), puppy pads to line the cat carriers for poorly hens, cockerels that we've managed to find homes for, farm kit (including head torches, ffp3 dust masks, gloves and snacks), barriers to help us section off the hens in the barn, water and a variety of miscellaneous 'useful items' :). My van always resembles a very badly organised junk yard 😂

It always starts spotless on a Friday and by this time tomorrow it will all be absolutely filthy and need washing and sanitising ready for next week!

We do still have hens available for our upcoming dates so if you want to be part of the big rescue story, please visit our website, www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

27/10/2024

There are still a few of these wonderful hens looking for their forever homes.

They are here at Biggin Hill collection point.

Can you be their future ❤️❤️❤️

12/10/2024

We REALLY need help with finding homes for some lovely girls on 9th November ❤️

All the lucky girls at Biggin Hill Fresh Start for Hens right now have found homes but these new girls are will be so grateful for a forever home ###

Please can you share this post to anyone and anywhere you can think off . Thank you so much ❤️🐓🐓

To register go to www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

12/10/2024

We have lots of 'working girls' leaving their farms in November, all looking for new coops to call home, where they can happily live out their retirements as pets

06/10/2024

These hens really are beautiful and so friendly ❤️❤️❤️

We had a wonderful day yesterday at Cornhill Farm, and our drivers are absolute troopers for doing the long journey.

The hens were in amazing condition and everyone who rehomed from us was delighted with their incredible feather coverage

We collected just under 2,000 hens yesterday and we still have a handful available at Huntingdon & Peterborough Fresh Start For Hens, Selby Fresh Start For Hens, Holsworthy Fresh Start for Hens and Biggin Hill Fresh Start for Hens , so if you are looking to increase your flock ASAP, please get in touch with either of those and arranged to pick up in the next day or so :)

We've been busy at work behind the scenes and have just added LOADS of collection points to our November dates, so pop over to the website and help us save even more hens ❤️

www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

And of course, there is the obligatory empty barn photo 😊

05/10/2024

And this is why we do it ❤️❤️❤️

These girls are living their best life now.
They came from a very small commercial flock of just 95, but without wonderful rehomers they would not have a future 🥰
These five went to their forever home today but there are still 40 waiting 🥰
Could you give some a home?
Available from Biggin Hill and Horsham ❤️
Message the page or apply online at https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/

04/10/2024

4am start for the team ❤️

After some VERY long journeys, the farm team have all checked in and are tucked up in bed, ready for our 04:00 start tomorrow catching beautiful hens at Cornhill Farm

Looking forward to meeting our rehomers tomorrow ❤️

29/08/2024

We're putting the final plans in place for our 3700 hen rehoming this weekend :)

If you are collecting from one of our 39 collection points, you will have received your email with collection details by now :)

PLEASE ensure you have suitable carriers to take your hens home in.

Our volunteers go to great pains to ensure the hens reach the collection points safe and well, and it is very disheartening when we have to refuse them the onward journey to their new coops because the carriers for the hens are unsafe, despite all the advice in our emails.

If you would like to reserve some hens, please visit our website, www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

26/08/2024

Hi everyone
Biggin Hill Fresh Start for Hens has a new date !!!!!!

Please get clicking and book for 14th September to give your hens the retirement they deserve.

To register for your little garden helpers please register on the website. We ask for photos of set up and a donation of £2.75 per hen.
www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

24/08/2024

If you have booked hens for the 31st August BUT not sent your picture or donation, you only have a few days left to do it !

…… you know what to do!

19/08/2024

3,700 hens all in their forever homes yesterday ❤️

It was a bit of a mad day yesterday, with TWO farms on opposite sides of the country and over 3700 hens saved! Beautiful hens from both farms - a credit to the farmers!

We are blessed with an amazing volunteer team who really do go above and beyond to save these girls

08/08/2024

I love seeing everyone’s photos of their hens in their forever homes ❤️❤️❤️
Feel free to comment a photo……….

This gorgeous hen arrived at Biggin Hill Fresh Start for Hens in the early hours of this morning 💖

She is one of 300 stunning hens who just won a golden ticket 🎫

If you have a place in your home and in your heart for a special hen or two please register.

They are ready to meet you now 💖

https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/1-registration-form/

02/08/2024

These wonderful hens are URGENTLY looking for their forever homes.
*** Biggin Hill Fresh Start for Hens ***

❤️31st August 3,700 hens ❤️

They are Warrens from a Free Range Organic farm in Kent.

Lots other collection points
too 🥰
If you can give these lovely hens a future please go to the Fresh Start for Hens website and register.

Thank you 💖💖💖💖💖

https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/

02/08/2024

If you are wondering about the hens we're rehoming on 31st August, here they are!

They are warrens, coming from a free range organic farm in Kent and will be about 76 weeks when we re-home them.

To reserve some of these hens, please visit our website, www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

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And this is why we do it ……

And this is why we do it ❤️❤️❤️ These girls are living their best life now. They came from a very small commercial flock of just 95, but without wonderful rehomers they would not have a future 🥰 These five went to their forever home today but there are still 40 waiting 🥰 Could you give some a home? Available from Biggin Hill and Horsham ❤️ Message the page or apply online at https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/

Meet Bertha the Dorking hen, an older hen showing classic star gazing behaviour. Star gazing is a type of wry neck and is caused by a lack of vitamin B1 and E (and selenium). It usually responds to vitamin supplementation but recovery can take weeks. Other types of wry neck (twisted neck) may have causes such as viruses, fungi, bacteria and toxins. *** Don’t be alarmed by the video, she is responding really well to treatment so it took a while to get a good video of her behaviour *** In comments there is a video showing her walking normally. The reason she came to stay is that she also has a crop problem but she has responded to treatment and she will go back to her foster mummy soon 🥰 https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/