Ex Battery hens / Rescue hens
Ex Battery Hens
We use a different system to most. In most cases you join a list ready for the clearing of a battery building. The suppliers dont have the buildings available to store them, and think people wont pay the extra pence it costs to feed them for a few weeks until they come along. It seems a shame to us, not being in farming all our lives, to let these hens die for such a small difference in feeding, watering and housing them for a few weeks, espescially when we have buildings available here anyway, and we have found most people feel the same way.
So we rescue enough to supply people here until the next batch is due to go from a local battery farm. Like all battery farms they tend to have a company come and dispose of thousands per visit at certain times of the year, paying a nominal fee because they use the meat in animal products, but clearing the buildings quickly and efficiently.
We go in just before this company and buy as many as we think we can re-home.
We have been doing this since moving here, just at certain times of the year, and are hoping we can now rescue loads more because of all the fantastic media attention recently.
These hens need a little extra TLC than normal hens for the first few weeks, but the rewards are great. We’ve raised lots of ex battery hens over the last 3 years just for fun, and our first hens are still going strong!
We also supply drinkers, feeders, starters books, powders, feeds and all the other bits you need to get started.
Price £5.00
Customer Reviews
by Rachael Ashton on 23 Apr 2012 at 16:41
Picked up two ladies yesterday afternoon, Peggy and Mabel seem to be settling in, so well in fact we have an egg already!
Great girls, lovely company!
by Mrs Helen Holl on 23 Apr 2012 at 13:39
Over the last three years we have had many hens from Happy Chicks but I have to say that the ex-bats are by far the most 'characterful' and they never cease to amuse us, the eggs are just a bonus!
by Jo Gibson on 15 Apr 2012 at 09:39
Collected our two lovely hens yesterday lunchtime - and had an egg by teatime! 'Gertie and Gwen' have obviously been well looked after since they were rescued and are now settling in well to their new home. Thank you!
by Alec Milner on 26 Mar 2012 at 10:11
Collected 4 ex-batts on Saturday. They are in lovely condition and we had 2 eggs Sunday morning. Wonderful service thank you.
by lindsey on 17 Mar 2012 at 23:29
hello i would like a hen what is exbattery mean do you have to keep them in a small place to layy there egg or can they run around the garden like normal chickensn