Windy Brook Hen Rescue

Ex battery hens make excellent pets. By rehoming some (usually at least a trio to begin with), you are saving them from certain death and giving them a chance to live as chickens should do.

In a battery farm, they only ever see artificial light. They live in cramped cages and often only have the space of an A4 sized piece of paper to stand on throughout their lives. They stand on wire mesh which is painful and don't have any roosting perches. They are on the farm purely to produce eggs and when their supply lessens, they are outed in favour of new birds. These hens are only around a year old and have much more life left.

When you rescue ex batts, you'll be surprised how they instinctively know how to enjoy a dust bath, even though they've never seen soil before. They'll peck in the grass for worms and look up at birds and aeroplanes flying overhead as they've never seen anything above before (except more and more cages)

In weeks, these hens grow back beautiful plumage and are trusting and friendly family pets.

We hope you will consider some of your own. They do still lay tasty eggs, just not enough of them to be commercially viable for farmers.

Please help put a stop to the cruelty of caged hens and ALWAYS buy free range eggs if you are unable to keep your own hens.