Chicken Rescue UK Biggin Hill

09/12/2022

💕💕💕 As you can see, Biggin Hill will be rehoming on 14th January too 💕💕💕

We have our first rehome date for 2023! Please share with your friends and family even if they are not local. As you can see, we have Collection Points all over the country so please spread the word and help to change the lives of these gorgeous girls 💕 🐓💕

20/11/2022

Vaccination makes sense to me 💜💜💜
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/628041?fbclid=IwAR36SORlrer8Jo_cfpazq4laz5SJ7p4AsdhrpMBI8ygEXEybQ82fe37WYYU

Currently the vaccine is limited only for use in very specific cases (zoos) and within England only. Avian influenza (AI) could now be classed as endemic. It has spread throughout the UK in wild and captive birds. The vaccine should be allowed for use in captive birds.

27/09/2022

*** CAN YOU HELP FIND HOMES FOR THESE AMAZING HENS ***

This is such an exciting new farm, these hens have been well cared for by the farmer.
Can you help find them a future?
http://www.chickenrescue.co.uk

If you can’t have hens, please share ###

24/09/2022

**** RESCUE HENS looking for their forever homes ****

Some lovely Lohmanns Brown hens will be looking for their forever homes on 15th October.
If you can give a home to some of these beautiful hens, please register at http://www.chickenrescue.co.uk
Collection points include Biggin Hill, Brands Hatch and Swanley.

30/08/2022

Can anyone give the little chap a home ?
Transport south should be possible 👍👍👍

26/08/2022

It's 'posh' rehome time again!!!!!!

**** COLLECTION POINTS NATIONWIDE ****

Check out the website for details !!!!!

We are doing our lovely pure breed farm on September the 10th. Hugely high welfare farm. Mix of breeds.

If you would like to add abit of colour to your flock, please go to chickenrescue.co.uk. Usual donation.

These girls went extremely quickly last time so if you would like some, register sooner rather than later.

Rescuing and rehoming ex-commerical hens

02/06/2022

Absolutely Fabulous 🥰

31/05/2022

This is sooooo much better than school hatch

27/05/2022

Some of the 4th June hens will also be available from Biggin Hill and Swanley.
And there are a few hens awaiting forever homes in Brands Hatch

22/05/2022

No, of course I haven’t just swallowed another one of your earrings 😳

12/05/2022

FINALLY 🥳🥳🥳

I have finally finished adding the red pvc to all the nest boxes and the area underneath for timid hens to hide.
Thank you Lou Scannon for sourcing the pvc, I’m now ready for lots of hens to arrive on the 21st to await their forever homes in safety 💜💜💜💜

09/05/2022

How sad is this 😞

https://www.economist.com/international/2019/01/19/how-chicken-became-the-rich-worlds-most-popular-meat?fbclid=IwAR1gCNtGD0OncO-XIdcqHN5KKCdc6UguYS-ImQfcJNPoGpre8n7iARBwHzs

04/05/2022

Now that the hens can free range, please be extra vigilant. The fox cubs are hungry and the parents will be on the lookout for an easy meal.

03/05/2022

Who is your naughtiest hen ????? ……..

This is Henny Penny, free 13 months, I didn’t see her nip past me until I walked into the kitchen and found her about to destroy the seedlings 🤦‍♀️

01/05/2022

THIS IS A DESPERATE PLEA FOR HELP - These hens need you !

We really need to find homes for the remaining girls. If we don’t then the whole flock may end up being sent for slaughter, even the ones that are reserved and have loving homes already lined up. Please don’t let that happen 😔😔😔😔

Hens can be reserved at www.chickenrescue.co.uk 👈🏻 just click on the link

Lots of collection points:
Hastings
Hailsham
Biggin Hill
Brands Hatch
Cowden
Swanley

Also with the Avian Influenza restrictions being lifted from midnight tonight, with correct bio security measures your hens can go back to free ranging again, so it makes keeping hens so much easier.

Please share and tag friends and family and ask them to do the same. The more shares we get, the more hens will be saved. Just by hitting the share button, an action that takes you seconds, you could help save the lives of these gorgeous girls. Please, please help us save them. Thank you

30/04/2022

Just 14 days until our next rehome
Really looking forward to seeing everyone and giving these gorgeous hens a future 🥰

https://bit.ly/3MKqbaB

29/04/2022

🌽 🌽 Maize Alert 🌽 🌽

DID YOU KNOW:
Maize/sweetcorn is very heating.
It doesn’t actually raise a hen’s body temperature and it’s fine to feed in the evening in winter when it’s cold BUT its high calorific content fuels their metabolism when fed in the warmer weather.
If you are seeing feather eating, more squabbles or even cannibalism in your hens do consider this as a contributing factor, especially when introducing new hens to your flock.
I’ve actually thrown away the remains of a sack of mixed corn today for this reason. Mixed corn can be given at the end of the day from October to February. From March to September this should be replaced by whole wheat.
I will replace my mixed corn with a bag of whole wheat to use as a treat at the end of each day.

27/04/2022

Flockdown will finally be over on May 2nd, so why not treat your hens to some new sisters!!!!!!

We have 1,700 little ladies looking for forever homes on May 14th!!!!
Adding to your flock is so much easier once they are able to free range.

These ladies have spent nearly 14 months working tirelessly for the commercial egg industry and deserve a loving forever home.

Local collection points are:

Biggin Hill
Brands Hatch
Swanley
Cowden

Other points available across England. Please go to the website to register chickenrescue.co.uk

https://chickenrescue.co.uk/adopt-some-hens-and-give-them-a-loving-and-forever-home/

Any problems, please pm me.

26/04/2022

A health check for your hen when you think you have a problem

25/04/2022

At last some good news ❤️❤️❤️

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/avian-influenza-bird-flu -situation

How to spot avian influenza (bird flu), what to do if you suspect it, and measures to prevent it.

25/04/2022

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Now is your chance to give these lovely hens a forever home.
AI lockdown should end soon ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

It's freedom day on 14th May for 1700 commercial laying chickens who we will be helping to find new homes. If you'd like some feathered friends reserve yours now on our website https://bit.ly/3MKqbaB

22/04/2022

😢

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been confirmed at a premises near Ilkeston, Erewash, Derbyshire. More information is available on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/bird-flu

22/04/2022

Bless him, he didn’t know how to fend for himself when he was dumped 🥹

So he ate a load of marble sized snails, completely filling his crop. His digestive system could probably break one or two down provided they didn’t obstruct his gizzard.
But with this number he would have starved to death before he had broken them down as there was no room in his crop for proper food.
Surgery to remove them will save his life provided one isn’t obstructing his gizzard already.
A mad dash from Lincolnshire to Kent and back for surgery will hopefully save his life.

22/04/2022

Hens are available from Biggin Hill, Brands Hatch, Swanley and Thanet

😪😪😪 May 14th.... YOU CAN SAVE HER and her sisters!!! Please share!!!!

Chickenrescue.co.uk

Lots of love. ###

18/04/2022

And I can bring some south to Kent on 14th May if anyone in my area would like one 👍

15/04/2022

SUCH EXCITING NEWS !!!!

June 18th....
CHERRY VALLEY DUCKS!!!!!

We will be rescuing 350 beautiful girls from slaughter.

They will be a minimum donation of £5 each as we pay the farmer a lot more for them than the hens.

Our collection points will be:

Sussex
Brockenhurst
Salisbury
Southampton
Wareham
Waterlooville
Wi******er

So looking forward to getting ducks again!!!!!!!

14/04/2022

Today is National Gardening day 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱
Chickens love helping in the garden:
Pulling up all newly grown weeds (and plant seedlings 🌱)
Dust bathing turns the soil nicely
Fertilising with chicken p**p (especially on paths and decking)

Photo from this time last year

13/04/2022

And another case 😭😭😭😭

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/avian-influenza-bird-flu

13/04/2022

Really bad news and something I’ve suspected would happen 😢

Experts say highly pathogenic variants of avian flu now appear to be endemic in wild birds, creating a risk of infection all year.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/25/the-end-of-free-range-eggs-year-round-bird-flu-outbreaks-may-keep-hens-inside

Highly virulent variants of avian flu now appear endemic in wild birds, making farms prone to outbreaks all year, experts warn

11/04/2022

Hens just like Poppy are also available in Biggin Hill, Brands Hatch, Cowden and Swanley on 14th May.
As it says
💜❤️💜 BE A HEN HERO 💜❤️💜❤️💜

REHOME APPEAL 14th May

This is poppy. Poppy is a hen who we saved from a commercial farm in April. Poppy has been laying eggs for people her whole adult life. Her insides are tired and she’s broken.

We will try to fix poppy and are determined to give her the retirement she deserves.

If you can help a hen like Poppy, please get in touch. We are opening our doors on the 21st May for another day of rehoming these beautiful girls

Be a hen hero 💜💜💜

05/04/2022

Lots of hens can be reserved for 14th May but still a few lovely girls available right now 💕💕💕

02/04/2022

Cages are supposed to end in 2025 but I don’t trust it to happen.
Please sign this petition to keep the pressure on. Politicians are bound to make an excuse not to enforce the change 😭

Yesterday The Humane League UK, Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation and Henry Smith MP and the RSPCA held an event in the Houses of Parliament in support of 🐔🥚📜 Add your voice to show the Government we need a ban on cages for laying hens in the UK: https://bit.ly/3IUQpnu

https://chng.it/wsRwSnnKH5

UK Governments: end cruel cages for hens!

01/04/2022

31/03/2022

We have just a few needing homes right now but there are lots in need of a forever home on 14th May.
To reserve to collect at Biggin Hill, Brands Hatch, Cowden and Swanley register on the website or ring me on 07762758388.

https://chickenrescue.co.uk/adopt-some-hens-and-give-them-a-loving-and-forever-home/

Can you fit in any lovely ladies?

You guys have been immense with the rehoming. Thanks so much. We have decided to relieve one of the other banks of 50 hens as we are doing so well in Brockenhurst. It's not a huge amount but that's still 50 hens that have not yet met their forever families. If you can offer any of these beautiful girlies a loving home, please pm us or go to chickenrescue.co.uk to register.

Please share to anyone you know that might be able to help.

Thanks again for all you support. The next rehome is May 14th and live for reservations. Love you all so much. ###