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Two new rehome dates for 2023

✅🐔 Reservations are now open for 25th February & 4th March 🐔✅
We have lots of collection points open for both of these dates please see below the full list.
Two more dates will be going live shortly with some more collection points coming soon!
🐔Alfreton – 25th February & 4th March
🐔Ammanford – 25th February & 4th March
🐔Aylesford – 25th February & 4th March
🐔Barry – 4th March
🐔Basildon – 25th February & 4th March
🐔Basingstoke – coming soon
🐔Beccles – coming soon
🐔Bedford – 4th March
🐔Boston – 5th March
🐔Brixham **NEW** – 25th February
🐔Burford ** NEW ** – 25th February & 4th March
🐔Burton on Trent – 4th March
🐔Callington **NEW** – 25th February
🐔Chelmsford – 4th March
🐔Colchester – 25th February & 4th March
🐔Corwen – 4th March
🐔Coventry – 25th February & 4th March
🐔Crewe – 4th March
🐔Devizes – 25th February
🐔Durham – coming soon
🐔Eastleigh – coming soon
🐔Evesham – Sunday 5th March
🐔Faversham **NEW** – 4th March
🐔Folkestone – 4th March
🐔Guildford – 25th February
🐔Hailsham – coming soon
🐔Harrogate – coming soon
🐔Heathfield **NEW** – coming soon
🐔Hertford – 4th March
🐔High Wycombe – 25th February & 4th March
🐔Hitchin 25th February & 4th March
🐔Holsworthy**NEW** – 25th February
🐔Horsham – Hens available NOW
🐔Huntingdon – 26th February & 4th March
🐔Ipswich – 4th March
🐔Lingfield – Hens available NOW
🐔Llanidloes – coming soon
🐔Mablethorpe – coming soon
🐔Market Rasen – 4th March
🐔Melton Mowbray – 25th February
🐔Milton Keynes – 4th March
🐔Newark **NEW** – 25th February
🐔Northampton **NEW** – 4th March
🐔Penkridge – coming soon
🐔Reading – 4th March
🐔Selby – 5th March
🐔Solihull – 25th February
🐔Southam – 4th March
🐔Southampton – 25th February
🐔Southminster -coming soon
🐔Spalding – 5th March
🐔St Austell – 25th February
🐔Sturminster Newton ** NEW** – 25th February
🐔Sutton Coldfield – 4th March
🐔Taunton – 25th February
🐔Thanet – 4th March
🐔Whaley Bridge – coming soon
🐔Wisbech – 25th February & 4th March
🐔Worthing – coming soon
Head to the website to reserve and help us save these lovely hens.
All rehomed in line with avian influenza protocols.

WOW, what a busy weekend!

WOW, what a busy weekend!
Started with 3200 hens from The Macs Farm on Saturday morning, and finished with 300 gorgeous khaki Campbell ducks on Sunday, which travelled all the way from Cornwall!
We are now taking reservations for our final rehomings of the year, with LOTS of collection points available, including the ever popular Anglesey & Dolgellau, new collection points at Holsworthy and Burford, and a welcome return of Mold and Garstang 🙂
All farms we are rehoming from have already housed their hens, to ensure they are protected against Avian Flu, and we are taking additional precautions at all collection points.
Those collection points that fall into a DEFRA/APHA disease control zone are being moved so they operate outside the zone and within the rules.
Some of the collection points below do not have a set date, but please feel feel to reserve for them and we will open them on demand 🙂
Alfreton – 29th October
Ammanford – 29th October, 5th, 12th November
Andover – 12th November
Anglesey – 19th November
Aylesford – 29th October, 12th November
Barry – 12th November
Basildon – 29th October, 12th November
Basingstoke – 12th November
Beccles
Bedford – 29th October
Boston
Brecon – 5th November
Bridlington
Bristol
Bromsgrove – 29th October
Burford **NEW** – TBA
Burton on Trent – 29th October, 12th November
Chelmsford – 29th October, 12th November
Colchester – 29th October, 12th November
Congleton – 29th October, 12th November
Corwen – 29th October November
Coventry – 29th October, 5th, 12th November
Crewe – 12th November
Darlington – 19th November
Daventry
Devizes – 29th October, 12th November
Dolgellau – 13th November
Durham – 12th November
Eastleigh – 26th November
Ellesmere Port – 29th October, 19th November
Evesham – 29th October, 5th November
Folkestone – 26th November
Garstang – 19th November
Gilberdyke
Goodwick – 29th October, 5th November
Guildford – 12th November
Hailsham – 12th November
Harrogate -12th & 19th November
Haverfordwest – 5th November
Heathfield **NEW**
Hertford – 12th November
High Wycombe -29th October November
Hitchin – 12th November
Holsworthy**NEW** – 29th October
Horsham – 29th October, 12th November
Holmfirth – 29th October
Huntingdon – 29th October,5th 12th November
Ipswich – 29th October
Lincoln **NEW** – 29th October
Lingfield -29th October, 12th November
Llanidloes – 30th October
Mablethorpe – 29th October
Malvern – 12th November
Market Rasen – 29th October
Melton Mowbray – 29th October
Merthyr Tydfil – 5th November
Milton Keynes -29th October
Minehead – 12th November
Mold – 19th November
Newcastle
Newton Abbot – 29th October
North Walsham – 29th October, 12th November
Northampton **NEW** – 29th October
Nottingham
Pencader – 12th November
Penkridge – 29th October
Petersfield – 12th November
Plymouth
Reading – 29th October & 12th November
Ross-on-Wye – 29th October
Rotherham
Rugby – 29th October
Sandhurst
Scunthorpe
Selby – 29th October, 13th November
Selston **NEW** – 29th October
Sheffield
Solihull – 29th October
Southam
Southampton
Southminster – 12th November
Spalding
St Austell
Stourbridge
Sturminster Newton ** NEW** – 19th November
Sutton Coldfield – 29th October, 12th November
Taunton – 29th October & 12th November
Thanet
Tunbridge Wells
Wakefield – 29th October
Warminster
Watton – 29th October
Witney
Whaley Bridge – 29th October & 19th November
Whitland – 12th November
Wisbech – 29th October, 12th November
Worthing
The photo is of Macy, our youngest volunteer, with the last hen out of the barn on Saturday 🙂

1000 hens still looking for homes- can YOU HELP?

 

Next Saturday (21st May) will be the next rehome and 1000 hens are sadly still without homes 😭
 
YOU can change that by helping us! If you have space in your coop and room in your heart please register.
 
If you can share this URGENT post in groups and friends who maybe able to help 🙏
 
Hens will be available from:
 
Barry
Brecon
Bristol – almost full
Chelmsford
Colchester
Coventry
Devizes
Eastleigh
Evesham (Sunday rehome)
Harrogate
Hertford
High Wycombe
Horsham
Huntingdon
Lingfield (Sunday rehome)
Melton Mowbray
Minehead
North Walsham
Penkridge
Plymouth
Scunthorpe
Solihull
Sutton Coldfield
Taunton
Wisbech
Witney
Worthing

7th May – 3000 hens looking for homes

Saturday saw another lucky 3403 hens rehomed across England and Wales from the Macs Farm. All the hens are now settled into their forever chicken homes.

We are so thankful to our lovely volunteers and rehomers who helped to rescue these lucky hens. Our next rehome will be on the 7th May when 3000 hens are looking for homes. They will be able to reserve from:

  • Ammanford
  • Andover
  • Aylesford
  • Basildon
  • Basingstoke
  • Bradford
  • Colchester
  • Congleton
  • Crewe
  • Dolgellau (rehome on Sunday 8th May)
  • Eastleigh
  • Evesham (rehome on Sunday 8th May)
  • Hertford
  • High Wycombe
  • Holmfirth
  • Horsham
  • Huntingdon
  • Ipswich
  • Lingfield
  • Nottingham North
  • Petersfield
  • Reading
  • Solihull
  • Southampton
  • Watton
  • Whaley Bridge
  • Whitland

Two more dates are being planned which will be 2500 hens on the 21st May & 1500 hens on the 18th June.

 

To reserve some hens please visit our website

April dates – including the Macs Farm!

Lots of hens looking for homes as we are rehoming 8000 hens in August from 2 Organic farms which include the lovely Macs Hens!

 

2nd April – 3000 organic hens which will be available from;

  • Ammanford (Almost full)
  • Andover
  • Anglesey
  • Aylesford
  • Basildon
  • Burton on Trent
  • Chelmsford
  • Colchester
  • Corwen
  • Coventry
  • Devizes
  • Ellesmere Port
  • Hitchin
  • Horsham
  • Huntingdon
  • Lingfield
  • Llanidloes (open on Sunday 3rd April)
  • Merthyr Tydfil (Almost full)
  • Minehead
  • Newton Abbot
  • North Walsham
  • Petersfield
  • Reading
  • Ross on Wye
  • Selby
  • Southampton
  • Sutton Coldfield
  • Whaley Bridge
  • Worthing

The Macs hens will be rehomed on the 9th & 23rd April and there are 5500 Organic Hens looking for homes from;

  • Aylesford (23rd)
  • Basildon (23rd)
  • Basingstoke (9th)
  • Beccles (9th)
  • Bedford (23rd)
  • Chelmsford (23rd)
  • Colchester (9th & 23rd)
  • Congleton (23rd)
  • Coventry (9th & 23rd)
  • Darlington (23rd)
  • Devizes (23rd)
  • Dolgellau (open on Sunday 10th & 24th)
  • Durham (23rd)
  • Ellesmere Port (23rd)
  • Evesham (23rd)
  • Folkestone (23rd)
  • Hailsham (9th)
  • Harrogate (23rd)
  • High Wycombe (9th)
  • Hitchin (9th & 23rd)
  • Horsham (9th & 23rd)
  • Holmfirth (9th)
  • Huntingdon (9th & 23rd)
  • Ipswich (23rd)
  • Lingfield (9th & 23rd)
  • Malvern (9th)
  • Market Rasen (23rd)
  • Melton Mowbray (23rd)
  • Milton Keynes (9th & 23rd)
  • Newcastle (23rd)
  • Nottingham (9th)
  • Pencader (9th & 23rd)
  • Reading (23rd)
  • Scunthorpe (23rd)
  • Selby (9th & Sunday 24th)
  • Solihull (9th)
  • Southampton (23rd)
  • St Austell (23rd)
  • Sutton Coldfield (9th & 23rd)
  • Taunton (23rd)
  • Thanet (Sunday 10th)
  • Wakefield (23rd)
  • Watton (9th)
  • Whaley Bridge (23rd)
  • Wisbech (23rd)
  • Worthing (23rd)

These are truly beautiful chickens who are looking for their new forever homes.  To rescue some hens from any of the dates above please visit our website www.freshstartforhens.co.uk