The Blog of our Rescue Hens

This blog is to show how easy and fun it is to keep hens, as well as saving ex battery birds from ending their poor short lives in a can of cat food.

We collected our six hens on Sunday 2nd May from a charity that saves ex-battery hens after they have 'given their best' as egg laying machines for the first 17 months of their lives. They are usually a Rhode Island Red hybrid, as these as super egg layers.

Once we got the girls back to the garden, we kept them in a fold out pen, not with our other two hens at first. We already had a bantum Rhode Island Red and a New Hampshire Red, who are getting on a bit at about five years old.