Corwen Fresh Start for Hens

20/01/2025

****📣 Any chicken people who are also horse people, please complete and share if you can! 📣**** 🐔 🐴

I am conducting research into management of laminitis as part of my veterinary degree at the University of Liverpool and I would really appreciate it if anyone who has any experience of caring for a horse with laminitis could complete it and share 🩺 ✅ . We want to hear your experiences and opinions - this is a great chance to raise what you felt was good and bad about your vets management or advice, and who else you found most helpful when your horse or pony experienced laminitis! Hopefully this research will be published and presented so please share your feelings/experiences if you feel able to!

I am trying to collect as many responses to help our future understanding of this terrible disease. Even if you can’t complete it, sharing would help massively 🙏🏻.

If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch with me directly 📩 or alternatively you can use the contact details in the survey if you’d prefer 📑.

Meg x

Has your horse or pony ever had laminitis?

Horse owners and carers - we're inviting you to take part in our survey investigating approaches to treatment and rehabilitation of laminitis in horses and ponies. The study is being undertaken by undergraduate student Meg as part of her University of Liverpool veterinary degree. As every case of laminitis is different, we are keen to hear about your experiences of laminitis and its management. If you would like to participate (the questionnaire is completely anonymous), please click on the link below or scan the QR code in the image and read through the information sheet before completing the online survey.

Survey link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/liverpool/approaches-to-treatment-and-rehabilitation-of-laminitis

Thank you in advance for participating - it really helps improve our understanding of this important area of equine health.

06/12/2024

One of our followers is looking for a home for these 3 beautiful boys. They are gold laced Barnevelders and are around 3 months old. These boys have been hand reared, are very friendly and would make a lovely addition to any flock 🐔. Please get in touch if you think you could offer any of them a home 📧 📱.

Meg x

18/11/2024

📣WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOLUNTEER? 📣

We have hundreds of ladies arriving this weekend who are thankfully off to their forever homes 🫶🏼. We are reaching out for someone who would be able to pop along and help us on Saturday 23rd November. We will be unloading the girls from crates, feeding and watering them and then loading them into crates and boxes when their new rehomers arrive.

We will be rehoming until it goes dark but don’t have an ETA for the van arrival yet (usually around 11am/midday). We will provide tea, coffee, biscuits and cake! Any help would be fantastic, even if you can only be here to help unload the van and feed them which would take about an hour.

If you think you could help, pop us a message across or send a message to 07446068644 📱.

Meg x

15/11/2024

Bart is, now at his new home 🥰 Are you sitting comfortably.

This is the story of a little lad called Bartholomew. Bart lived with his friends, and slowly, they passed, leaving Bart alone.

Bart is a little sweetie and was cared for by his owner, who is now moving and cannot take.him, so he was taken to the vet to be put to sleep. Thankfully, the vet knows us well and gave us a call, and Bart is now with us at Huntingdon, and we are taking great care of him until we can find his new forever home. 🤍

Great work by Elizabeth Smith Veterinary Practice Ltd

Now, if you have space for little Bart in your flock, please get in touch, and we can talk you through the process. Email us [email protected] or message us.

Come on, you know you want him.

15/11/2024

****📣 RESERVATIONS 📣***
Corwen Fresh Start for Hens have had hundreds of reservations for our rehome on 23rd/24th November but unfortunately lots of those people have fully completed their reservation 🥺🐔.

If you’re wanting to collect your lovely ladies next weekend, please make sure you have:

Completed the reservation form ✅
Sent in photos of your coop ✅
Donated ✅

06/11/2024

📣📣 CAN YOU HELP US? 📣📣

There are still hundreds of hens looking for homes on 23rd November. These girls will only be around 72 weeks old when they leave their farm, many still lay really well and they deserve to go to lovely forever homes 🏡 🐔. Even if you can just take 2, every little helps! We are based in Bryneglwys between Corwen and Llangollen. If you think you can help, please get in touch with us directly 📲 or reserve via the website 💻 www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

Donation required is £2.75 per hen and there are also lots of other collection points out there if you are not local to us!

02/11/2024

📣📣***Hens and roosters looking for homes***📣📣📣

We have some lovely hens left from our rehome last weekend who are still looking for homes. These ladies are from a caged farm so are really enjoying being able to scratch around but are ready to find their forever homes!

We also have some lovely boys looking for homes too. Biscuit, Bourbon, Ginge and Horace are all bantams and have all been with us for over 12 months. These boys have been living together very peacefully and have never shown signs of aggression towards us. We took these boys in as a group of 17 and these are the last 4! They’ve also been with ladies as well and are a great size because they are a bit too small to bully or overwhelm the ladies!

We have been asked to take in another 5 big roosters before our next rehome on the 23rd November so if anyone is looking for a big boy we can absolutely help with that too.

If you would like to reserve hens or roosters, either get in touch with us directly 📩 or go to the website to reserve 💻🐔 , minimum donation is £2.75/hen ☺️ www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

We are based between Corwen and Llangollen in North Wales but there are lots of other collection points too (boys can possibly be transported to collection points nearer to you 🫶🏼).

06/07/2024

These lovely boys are looking for a home 🏡. There are 8 of these bantam boys looking for homes as well as 3 bantam boys already with us at our collection point.

We think bantam boys can be the perfect roosters for ex-layer hens as they aren’t too big so less likely to be rough with your girls! Please get in touch if you think you can give any of these bantam boys a home. Our next rehome for ladies is the 20th July! 🐔

01/06/2024

Some girls from one of our rehomes living their best life 🫶🏼.

Anyone wanting to visit the area, this is a lovely place to camp with access to some beautiful walks, a local village shop to buy from, pub on site 🍺 and spectacular views too 🏕️☀️

01/05/2024

We’re collecting upto 80 organic free-range hens from a local farm this weekend and we really need your help to find them 5* retirement homes please 🙏

We only have a couple of days to arrange this so please share to help us find these girls a home 🧡🐔

29/04/2024

Just 2 beautiful boys left ✨

28/04/2024

We’ve had a surprise on the van this morning! 5 beautiful boys desperately looking for their forever homes 🏡. Rehomers if you have any space 👀 look out for some of these these lovely lads today at our CP 🫶🏼

27/04/2024

Hello to all of our lovely followers,
I know this is a long shot but I don't suppose anyone is local-ish to the LL21 area and would be able to help on our rehome day tomorrow (28th April) in Corwen? My helpers are all injured and I have approx. 140 ladies arriving tomorrow morning to unload! Meg x

14/04/2024

Anyone wanting to reserve to collect from Llanfyllin Fresh Start for Hens on the 28th April, make sure you get your form 📄 photos 📸 and donation in ⬇️ so these girls can have a happy retirement 🐔🫶🏼

We're hosting a collection point here this coming Sunday (28th)... reservations will be closing soon so do register if you can give some lovely ladies a home x
https://freshstartforhens.co.uk

11/04/2024

****📣 RESERVATIONS 📣***
Corwen Fresh Start for Hens have had over 160 reservations for our rehome on 28th April but unfortunately less than half of those people have fully completed their reservation 🥺🐔.

If you’re wanting to collect your lovely ladies on the 28th April please make sure you have:

Completed the reservation form ✅
Sent in photos of your coop ✅
Donated ✅

04/04/2024

🐔🧡 700 sweethearts are looking for a home on Sunday 28th April 🧡🐔

We have lots of collection points open in North Wales too!

Anglesey Fresh Start For Hens
Corwen Fresh Start for Hens
Dolgellau Fresh Start for Hens
and a new location Llanfyllin Fresh Start for Hens

🙏 Please help if you can 🙏

https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/1-registration-form/