Hi all,

I'm in the process of building a chicken coop and enclosure (lucky my husband's a builder) for 6 ex-battery hens
and have got some reserved for me from the BHWT April lot. I know nothing about keeping chickens but have done a lot of research on them over the last 6 months or so. I'm so looking forward to giving some poor chickens a nice free range life! I'll let you know how I get on.

Michelle.

thats fantastic i'm sure theyll lay you some lovely eggs.

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Thanks

To get some free range eggs would be lovely but as long as the chickens are happy and free is all I care about.

If there happy they wil lay

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You never own a cat unless the cat owns you!

Thats great I have told my mum about this and when we have the money coming in she said she would love to do it

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I think its a brilliant idea. If I had the space id do it myself.

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This is something that I have always wanted to do. I want a huge plot of land next to a nice wee cottage that I can have a nice big chicken...coop...house..run...thingy...with lots of land for them to run around on.

thats brilliant! my aim is to rehome some ex battery hens and also save some from slaughter.



i bet they will be amazed at the space they will have and the care you'll give them

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Thats great, good for you poor things they will get a nice life now, i had one that fell off a lorry in front of my car, i picked her up put her in my shopping bag and home she came , hubby built a big outdoor run and a chicken coop, she laid me an egg every day i had her till she was old and passed on peacefully her friend was a ferel cat that befriened us and never left the garden and they both slept in coop.

I had some ex layers once,not battery they are all housed in barns at night and run free during the day in several acres,so i guess they would be classed as free range,however when they are about 18 months old they all get packed off for dog food! so even though they get a better life than free range,they still end up dog food.anyway the ones i rehomed were all bald and had their beaks clipped! their feathers grew back and they layed well.