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Directory of animal rescue web sites mainly in the UK. Grouped by location and animal. Pages for lost and found pets and pets needing new homes. All the notices and directory entries are completely free.
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Hen and Chicken Rescues
Directory of Hen and Chicken Rescues in the UK. Mainly places that rescue and rehome battery hens. These are good places to start if you are thinking of getting any chickens, most battery hens have lots of life left if they are given the chance. They also tend to be good egg layers.
THIS PAGE LAST CHECKED FOR BROKEN LINKS ETC. 10 MARCH 2010
- Cambridgeshire Hen Rescue: March, Cambridgeshire: http://www.cambshenrescue.com Rehome ex-battery hens, caged birds, and farm birds. Cover Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and surrounding areas.
- Ex Battery Hens: http://www.freewebs.com/exbatteryhens: A website about some battery hens that were due to be slaughtered before we adopted them as pets. Come and see how they are doing now!
- Ex Battery Hens Forum: http://www.exbatteryhens.com For people interested in Ex-Battery hens, hen rescues and rehoming Battery Hens
- Ex Battery Hen Forum http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ex-Battery-Hen-Forum/: Forum for anyone wishing to rehome ex battery hens and offering advice and answering questions for people who've already rehomed these lovely pets.
- Hen Rehomers UK http://www.henrehomers.net: Hen Rehomers UK (previously North London Hen Rescue) operates nationally to rehome ex-battery hens which are past their commercial usefulness. They are legitimately purchased from farmers, and distributed to centres from Harrogate to Cardiff to Dover and many in between.
- Lincs Little Hens: Lincolnshire: http://www.lincslittlehens.co.uk: Working in conjunction with Norwich based Little Hen Rescue and giving a Lincolnshire rehoming point to anyone wanting to give a home to retired battery or barn hens who suffer terrible cruelty in the commercial egg producing farms. These hens make lovely pets and still lay eggs.
- Little hen rescue: Norfolk: http://www.littlehenrescue.co.uk
- North London Hen Rescue - www.northlondonhenrescue.org.uk A small, independent group of volunteers who come together for the purpose of rehoming hens who would, otherwise, be slaughtered.
