Soham Fresh Start for Hens

03/08/2025

⚠️ We are opening on the 30th August ⚠️
🐔 Reservations for this date will open soon, keep an eye on https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/ to reserve your beautiful girls 🐔

22/07/2025

🐔 Reservations are still open for the 9th August, go to https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/ to reserve your girls 🐔

21/07/2025

🐓 Yesterday we said goodbye to these 2 handsome cockerels as they head off to look after their own flocks 🐓

18/07/2025

🚨 We're opening 9th August 🚨
🐔 2200 hens are looking for their forever homes. Reservations will open soon so keep an eye on https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/ 🐔
⭐️ In more exciting news every collection point now has their own QR code to use on rehoming days! Let's be honest, there's a high risk of chicken maths happening on rehoming days 😏. Instead of having to remember to donate for your additional hen(s) when you get home you can simply scan our QR code and it'll take you directly to our donation page, all you need to do is enter your name and payment details. We are still happy to accept cash ⭐️

11/07/2025

Our final offering for today is Huey, Louey and Douey. Three very happy some.boys that get along fine and need a new home.

Can you make room for them?

[email protected]

Come on you know you want to.

11/07/2025

We would also like to introduce you to George and Mildred a very happy married couple that need a new family to share their love with

Email us at [email protected] if they could be part of your family

11/07/2025

It's duck time again .... we have a selection of boys and girls that are desperate for a forever home.

Let's start with two boys Laurel and Hardy.

A year old and very sweet.

Can you give them a home? Email us at [email protected] and se can introduce you

28/06/2025

🐔 Unfortunately we're unable to open for any of the July dates due to personal commitments, however there are plenty of collection points opening all over. The girls are definitely worth travelling a bit further for!! 🐔
⭐️ Please go to https://freshstartforhens.co.uk/collection-points/ to see who's opening and when. Keep an eye on the website as all of the July dates will be added shortly ⭐️
❤️ We're looking forward to hopefully opening again in August ❤️

14/06/2025

🐔 50 beautiful girls from a free range organic farm have gone to their forever homes. Some with fewer feathers than other and all very vocal about being caught! 🐔
❤️ Huge thank you to our wonderful rehomers and the FSFH team ❤️

13/06/2025

🐔 Emails sent ✔️
🐔 Replies recieved ✔️
🐔 Holding pen set up ✔️
🐔 We're ready and waiting for the beautiful girls to arrive tomorrow and to welcome you into our garden 🐔
📦 Please make sure you have your boxes prepared and ready to load your precious cargo 📦

09/06/2025

🐔 A lovely update about the hen with the toe ball 🐔

08/06/2025

🐔 I don't even know what to say about this one 😞 Thank goodness the amazing FSFH volunteers discovered her (and all of her sisters!) and were able to remove the ginormous toe ball! 🐔

Fresh Start for Hens are proud of our policy of never leaving a hen behind.

If you've ever kept poultry, you'll know hens are the most inquisitive of birds and frequently go places they shouldn't be!

Once we had visibly emptied the barn yesterday, we could still hear some gentle clucking. Cue pulling up the flooring, where we found a number of birds who had clearly been living down there for a while, surviving on broken eggs, spilled feed and drops of water.

With a barn full of noisy hens, the farmer would not have known they were there!

It was only the silence that we had created that let their little voices be heard.

A mixture of dry soil and wet faeces/spilled egg/dripped water in a confined space (difficult to preen) had caused quite a build up around some of their feet and legs! We have seen this before, but nothing as large as this!

Volunteers got to work with pliers, an adjustable wrench and a very large tree pruner and freed this little one of the build up that hampered her movement. Needless to say, she delighted in tucking into EVERY tasty snack she was offered on her journey back to our volunteer, Sarah's house, where she's being pampered and living the free life she deserves ❤️