Little Hen Rescue©

Volunteers needed to help us on rescue days!  Please contact us stating you would like to volunteer emailing subject as 'volunteer' to littlehenrescue@aol.com

You contact us via our 'adopting hens' page, we will reply to your email with our question email followed by acceptance email and a little information you'll need to read.

We will then send you out an email to 'book in', this will show the dates and days we are re-homing, offering you an option of which day and a preferred time.

This 'booking in' email is not a confirmation but simply lets you know of times available.  This will be sent to all on the list and the first people to reply will get booked in first.  We can sometimes re-home up to 4000 hens in one weekend, so the sooner you reply the more likely you'll get the time you wanted. 

Everyone will get a confirmation email of your time and day, declaring an exact time.  This means you are booked in and we will expect to see you unless you cancel.

At the farm

After we find good homes, we make an agreement with the farmer, we catch the hens, we crate them, and we transport the hens to our safe collection point details of the address can be found on our 'find us' page.

Once back at Little Hen Rescue, we check the hens over for any signs of illness or injury.  We trim their nails and settle them with food and water.  Hens are given time to cool down and calm down before their new owners come to collect.

You will pay your donation, sign contract and receive a receipt for your booked hens. You will read and sign an adoption form, and I will need your full address for our data base.  We will then discuss your set up at home, and help chose you suitable hens to join your family. 

We will have a stall out which sells the important things we use at 'LHR' for the rescued hens, what are available to buy below;

• Layers mash £7.50
• Mixed corn £7.00
• Garden blend £7.50
• Apple Cider Vinegar £6.00
• Purple Spray £4.00
• Leg rings 50p
• Coxoid £8.00 
• Bed down bedding (dust free shavings and chopped straw)

• Pay your donation
• Sign our contract to adopt a hen
• Bring your own suitable carriers/crates/boxes to transport your hens home.

What will happen in the future

• Any problems you can call us and we will do our best to help and advise you also try looking at our 'Medical advice' page.
• After a few weeks we will ask for you to email to let us know how they are getting on
   

It is the same system for all the types of poultry we home, although the circumstances in which we get them will vary.  

 We have the right to refuse you hens if we believe you will not meet the standard of care we expect to be provided.   Our poultry are re-homed to PET homes only, and will have future check ups.