Please Note: Collection of hens strictly by appointment. We can not give you any hens unless you have been booked in and confirmed. The 'please book in' email is NOT confirmation, it simply giving you the times and dates of collection weekend. If you do not reply in time, you will be offered first for the next rescue.
Ex freerange hen rescue - Collection day 14th March
10.30am - 1.30pm in 15 minute time slots
97 ex freerange hens to be rehomed
Collection days strictly by appointment, confirmation of your exact time will be sent so please do not turn up with out getting a definite booking
From our Cambridge/Peterborough collection point.
NO planned collections at Cambs for at least 4 weeks, please contact Mel below if you wish for more information.
Past Rescues..
A large thank you to all the volunteers that work so hard on rescues. Not only do we have to collect and crate the hens at the farm, but the hens then need to be checked and re-caught once at the yard, ready for their new owners.
October-December 2009 ex battery collection days
Rehoming has been slow, as usual for winter months. Hens have been moulting, but are now coming back into lay. Homes still needed for the last few girls. 4 boys need homes too.
October 10th/11th 2009 ex battery hen rescue
1245 hens picked up, half have been rehomed the rest waiting for lovely new owners to collect them. Big, strong, healthy hens that are beautifully feathered laying the biggest, brownest eggs LHR have ever seen!! Homes still needed.
October 2nd/3rd 2009 ex free range hen rescue
1000 ex free range hens caught and crated for their journey to their new life. Nice little hens almost all rehomed.
September 2009 ex barn hen rescue
400 ex barn hens received from another rescue that didn't have enough homes. A late night but a good one. Thank you to all that helped, and all that are to rehome them.
August 2009 ex battery hen rescue
500 ex battery hens collected. Excellent little rescue, went very well. Beautiful hens that were very pleased to experience our August sunshine, and are continuing to enjoy it. Thanks to my catching team that travelled with us on our long 3 hour journey to catch, crate and bring them home!
Thank you to all our volunteers patiently waiting for our return, who worked top speed at getting our hot girls out of crates and into our fields of buttercups!
Thank you to everyone that came to collect them.
May - June 21st 2009 ex battery hen rescue
7500 ex battery hens collected. Exhausting work, every weekend was spent inside a battery farm, but worth every second. Thank you to the farmer who was closing down his battery farm to trust us and let us take all of the hens over a period of time. Thank you to everyone that waited patiently for their girls, and my reply to their emails!!! Snowed under was not the word!! Thank you to all that helped and rehomed! Every hen that was able to be rehomed has been rehomed to wonderful homes!
April 16th 2009 ex battery hen rescue
820 ex battery hens collected. Excellent little rescue. Thank you to all that helped and rehomed! Lots of bald hens all resting and warming under heat lamps!
April 9th 2009 ex battery hen rescue
1570 ex battery hens collected. 60+ hens were found to be 'off their legs' and have been kept back to recover and re-coop. Thank you to those who have taken hens to be fostered until they are walking again. All the other hens have now been rehomed and seem to be settling well. Sorry to those who were postponed by a week. We have limited space at LHR and can not house all the hens safely over night when there are over 1200. If large numbers are needing treatment we have even less space.
March 14th 2009 ex battery hen rescue
545 ex battery hens collected and rehomed. We lost 3 to unknown causes during the night, but the others are all lovely little hens, I'm sure all new rehomers will be pleased with them. Thank you to all that have waited for them.
February 6th & 7th 2009 ex battery hen rescue
3655 hens collected and nearly all rehomed. A fantastic response to our appeal. Some girls in our hospital wing, others feathering up nicely under heat lamps and some girls fostered out. A very busy weekend, not without its hiccups! Thank you to all involved.
December 18th 2008 Ex freerange Amberlink rescue
800 Amberlink hens collected and all have been rehomed. We were originally only taking 500 but we then pushed our luck to 800! This went well, despite it being a late night Rescue finishing at 1am. All hens were happy and healthy. Thank you to all the extra re-homers that came last minute to collect the extras.
November 29th 2008 rescue barn hen rescue
350 barn hens collected and almost all have been re-homed. We sadly lost 12 to the dog attack. All remaining hens (15) are receiving treatment and soon will be looking for homes in small numbers with families without dogs.
November 24th 2008 Free range rescue
200 free range lohnham hens collected and re-homed. We sadly lost four hens in 48 hours and then lost 5 more to a fox that got in the stable the second night!! So in all not our best rescue. All the others are doing well, and happily laying lots of eggs.
October 12th 2008 Rescue
Another great battery hen rescue, all went really well. We took around 460 hens. We didn't lose any! Hen rehomers UK took 2000 hens!
July 26th/27th 2008 Rescue
In July, our local team rescued 460 hens from a battery farm. The farmer concerned is sympathetic to the rehoming of his spent hens, and kindly gave access to a number of organisations which are involved in this work, including the Battery Hen Welfare Trust, Swindon and District Animal Rescue and North London Hen Rescue. The rescue went well and took place over several days, with different organisations going in at different times. On our part, it involved many trips to the farm and back to get out all our girls. Altogether, around 3,000 hens were rescued by the various organisations involved, but even so, some were still left behind.
We hope in future with your help the next shed could be empty!!