Martins Wood Farm

12/10/2024

*UPDATE- a home has hopefully now been found. Thank you all so much for the wonderful offers*

Can you help?

Beautiful Emily is the last hen in her flock and is looking to find a new home with another lone hen. She currently lives in Hampshire, but her owners often visit Eastbourne, so there is the chance for her to be delivered to you.

Emily is an Orpington hen, just over 3 years old. She has been laying well, but recently moulted so hasn't started laying again just yet.

If you have a lone hen looking for a companion, please let me know and I'll connect you with her owners.

06/10/2024

Just four eggs today- from 45 hens!!

Nearly everyone is moulting, but we don't mind. Glad they're getting it over and done with before it gets too cold!

And there may only be four eggs, but what beautiful eggs they are!

22/09/2024

*Update* - Milly has hopefully found a new home, as contact details from one offer have been passed on to her owners. Thank you all so much for the lovely offers of new homes.

Can you help?

This sweet hen is Milly, who currently lives in Ripe. She is four years old and the last hen remaining from her flock. Her current owners are not in a position to be able to add in hen friends for her, so she is looking for a new home with another hen to keep her company.

If you can offer her a home, please let us know and we'll put you in touch with her current owner.

06/08/2024

Edit: thank you all for so many lovely offers. I believe this hen has now found a home 🥰

Can you help?

Alice has sadly got one lone hen, and is looking for a new flock for her to live with. If you have a lone hen who would like a new friend, or have the space to offer this hen a home, please let us know and we'll pass on contact details.

The hen 2 and a half years old, and currently lives in Eastbourne.

Thank you :-)

30/07/2024

Although our shop has closed, we are still a collection point for Chickens To Your Door!

Our next collection is the 10th August, and reservations close TOMORROW! So please do pop over to the website to reserve yours now! Over 40 breeds of hens to choose from 🐔❤️🐔

www.chickenstoyourdoor.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/share/dSckCdWoefa9Xvrq/

🌻 Only 24 hours left to place your orders from August collections!

Plenty of Hybrids and Pure Breeds left in stock for our penultimate delivery of 2024! 🌻

24/07/2024

Poultry crates for sale 🐔

We have 6 of these poultry transport crates available.

From Quill Productions, these are the deeper, stackable crates suitable for chickens.

Dimensions measured exactly:
Length 95.0 cm
Width 56.5cm
Heigh 32.2cm

They have a top sliding door (40.5 x 35.2cm)
and an opening front door (37.5 x 26.5cm)

Cost over £60 each new.

£30 each or 2 for £50. Bigger discount available if they all go together.

22/07/2024

As has become tradition, I entered some eggs into our village RHS affiliated Summer Flower Show on Saturday, but this year my daughter also wanted to enter eggs from her hen, Peaches!

It was a strong field, as it always is, and I was chuffed to receive 1st place 🥇 for my Bantam eggs, and 2nd place for my chicken eggs 🥈

However, my daughter absolutely smashed it out the park, not just gaining first place 🥇 for her entry of Peaches' eggs in the Chicken Egg class, beating my entry, but also won the John Carter Cup trophy for the best exhibit across all the egg classes! 🥰🥰🥰

The comments from the judges on our cards were also very lovely to receive 💚🤎💚🤎💚

Peaches got plenty of treats and cuddles too!!

16/07/2024

✨IMPORTANT✨

We are very sad to announce that after many wonderful years of supplying you all with your chicken keeping supplies, we will be closing our gates for good at the end of July.

We have had a truly fantastic time over the last 13 years that we have run Martins Wood Farm, and met some absolutely amazing people, many of whom we now consider friends.

Over the past couple of years things have changed dramatically at the farm, partly due to the Avian Influenza restrictions frequently imposed, and partly due to us reducing our hours post covid lockdowns so we could focus on other projects and our family. But now it is time to fully prioritise our family, and this means making the very hard decision to call time on our lovely little farm shop.

Our children are growing up so quickly, and we do not want to feel that we are missing out on our time with them, or having to hold back from offering them all the opportunities we can. Paula also has an incredibly exciting new job beginning in September and we are ready to take on new adventures.

We will have two more weeks of opening, with our final day being the 26th July. There will be discounts available in our shop on all items, whilst stocks last, including equipment, supplements, cleaning products, health items and gifts (excluding feed, bedding and eggs) for our remaining opening days, starting this Thursday.

We will still remain a Chickens To Your Door collection point and so you can order hens to collect from us on the 10th August and in September too, but we will otherwise be closed.

Our Instagram page will remain active as we share life on the farm, chicken keeping information, and updates on what comes next for us so please do keep following along. We will have some exciting announcements to make later in the year too!

For now, we hope to see as many of you as possible across the next couple of weeks, and we cannot thank you all enough for your support over the last 13 years ❤️

16/07/2024

✨IMPORTANT✨

We are very sad to announce that after many wonderful years of supplying you all with your chicken keeping supplies, we will be closing our gates for good at the end of July.

We have had a truly fantastic time over the last 13 years that we have run Martins Wood Farm, and met some absolutely amazing people, many of whom we now consider friends.

Over the past couple of years things have changed dramatically at the farm, partly due to the Avian Influenza restrictions frequently imposed, and partly due to us reducing our hours post covid lockdowns so we could focus on other projects and our family. But now it is time to fully prioritise our family, and this means making the very hard decision to call time on our lovely little farm shop.

Our children are growing up so quickly, and we do not want to feel that we are missing out on our time with them, or having to hold back from offering them all the opportunities we can. Paula also has an incredibly exciting new job beginning in September and we are ready to take on new adventures.

We will have two more weeks of opening, with our final day being the 26th July. There will be discounts available in our shop on all items, whilst stocks last, including equipment, supplements, cleaning products, health items and gifts (excluding feed, bedding and eggs) for our remaining opening days, starting this Thursday.

If you are concerned about having to find an alternative feed supplier, our current feed stock has a best before date of October, so if you are wanting to come and top up your supplies, we have plenty available.

We will still remain a Chickens To Your Door collection point and so you can order hens to collect from us on the 10th August and in September too, but we will otherwise be closed.

Our website, Facebook and Instagram pages will remain active as we share life on the farm, chicken keeping information, and updates on what comes next for us so please do keep following along. We will have some exciting announcements to make later in the year too!

For now, we hope to see as many of you as possible across the next couple of weeks, and we cannot thank you all enough for your support over the last 13 years.

It has been such a pleasure to help you all on your own chicken keeping journeys.

Wishing you all the very best,

Paula and Tim

08/07/2024

What a perfect trio 💙🤎💚

26/06/2024

Bob has an important announcement to make!

This Saturday (29th June) we will be CLOSED!

We are still open tomorrow (Thursday 27th June), and will be back open as normal on both Thursdays and Saturdays from next week.

Apologies for any inconvenience, but we hope to see you tomorrow or next week instead.

🐔

09/06/2024

It's always great to chat with hen-friends, and this morning I had the pleasure of catching up with the lovely Sue from Chicken Rescue UK - East Sussex

Thank you so much for my beautiful chicken mug! I can't wait to use it 😍

07/06/2024

Absolutely in love with this very first egg from one of our new Devon Sage hens from who has laid the most beautiful olive egg 💚

It is a stunning colour and will add the perfect new shade to our basket of rainbow eggs! 🌈

There are just a handful of Devon Sage point of lay hens available to reserve for the June collection (our date is actually the 6th July!) so do pop over to the Chickens To Your Door website to reserve yours today! 🐔

13/05/2024

If you are interested in rehoming some ex-commercial hens, please do contact Chicken Rescue UK - East Sussex who will have some hens looking for their forever home in June 💜

🎉RESERVATIONS CLOSED - ALL HENS NOW RESERVED🎉

We are still looking for homes for 600 girls that currently have no where to call their own. Please help us get these girls reserved so they can also set sail to meet their new families on the 1st and 8th June along with the rest of their feathered crew. If you’ve got room in the coop please click on the link below to reserve some of these gorgeous girls. No room, don’t worry, sharing the post will also help these girls find new loving homes. Thank you 💜💜💜
www.chickenrescue.co.uk

10/05/2024

The Aurora Borealis! I cannot believe we just witnessed this in East Sussex! Photos taken at Martins Wood Farm. No photoshop or enhancements, just a 4 second exposure.

Absolutely stunning!

20/04/2024

Some of our bantam hatching eggs went to an incubator three weeks ago, and these photos have been sent to me this morning! A selection of the fluffy gorgeousness that hatched! There are 12 beautiful chicks in total with the most amazing range of colours. Thank you Emma for sharing this with us 🥰

If anyone would like hatching eggs, please pop us a message. Available for collection from the farm only.

18/04/2024

This is a nice spot to hang out 🐞