Ashington Fresh Start for Hens

31/05/2025

Another fab day rehoming 119 hens and 1 beautiful cockerel 🐓 thankyou to all our lovely rehomers, we hope your hens settle into their happy new forever homes 🥰

16/03/2025

Thankyou to everyone who rehomed all 160 hens yesterday our biggest rehome yet!
If you missed out this time and want to add some beautiful ex commercial hens to your life get your reservations, photos and donations in in plenty of time to the admin team via our website 😊

14/03/2025

Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for our next rehoming. Please check junk/spam folders if you’ve not replied to our email to confirm your hens yet. Only confirmed hens will be brought to us so don’t miss out!

16/02/2025

Just a quick post to reassure everyone that rehoming is still very much allowed and going ahead... please don't let this put you off reserving hens.
We have unfortunately seen lots of people cancelling their reservations due to understandable confusion around what is and isn't allowed! This is unfortunately resulting in lots of hens potentially losing out on their forever homes and being sent to slaughter instead.
The bird flu situation is ever changing but the current rules apply to birds being brought together from multiple sources and then dispersed again, such as shows or poultry auctions. As the rescue hens are all coming from a single source farm, this does not constitute a gathering. Movement is only completely banned in the circles on the DEFRA map, the darker mauve areas are subject to a housing order (birds to be contained in a covered area) and the lighter pink area is subject to enhanced biosecurity such as use of boot dips and ground sanitizer. Screen shot attached of the map as it stands now, for reference.
Please just get in touch if you have any questions

15/02/2025

Thankyou to all our lovely rehomers today, 135 hens and 1 enormous cockerel are snuggling up in their new coops and will be waking up to their fresh starts tomorrow morning in their forever homes 🥰
We will be open again on 15th march so be quick with your reservations on the website if you’re wanting to give some hens a fresh start in your coops 🐓

15/02/2025

Stunning birds today! Free range organic, well feathered and a really good weight.

We are returning to this farm next week to collect more of the 6,000 bird block, and there is still time to reserve some. We've got a great range of collection points to choose from

Aberdare
Aylesford
Basingstoke
Bury St Edmunds
Callington
Carmarthen
Coventry
Durham
Evesham
Faversham
Folkstone
Guildford
Hailsham
Harrogate
Hastings
Herstmonceux
Haywards Heath
High Wycombe
Holsworthy
Horsham
Launceston
Lincoln
North Walsham
Northampton
Petersfield
Romsey
Selby
Solihull
Tenterden
Thanet
Watton
Worthing

Visit our website to reserve, www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

30/01/2025

Is anyone looking for a lovely friendly cockerel to look after their hens? This poor boy was abandoned in a community garden in Newcastle and is looking for his forever home.
If interested I will put you in touch with the lady who has him.
Many thanks ☺️

25/01/2025

Thankyou everyone who rehomed from us today we had a lovely time chatting to you and we hope you enjoy your new hens (and mr cockerel) our next rehoming will be in February so if you missed out this time be quick to book your hens on the fresh start for hens website.
Www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

25/01/2025

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21/01/2025

We are looking forward to seeing everyone who has hens reserved for this Saturday 25th, our first rehoming of the year 😊 if you missed out you can reserve your new flock members for collection 15th Feb through the website

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28/12/2024

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28/12/2024

Merry Christmas 🎄 we hope you’ve had a wonderful time!

We are open in the new year and lots of other collection points are opening too, so get reserving your new hens for the new year 🐔