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Ex Battery Hens - Ex Battery Hens for Sale
Help the sites listed below re home battery hens. With your support you can find out the facts about battery hen farming and help the ex battery hens for sale.
| British Hen Welfare Trust We find caring homes for thousands of commercial laying hens destined for slaughter each year and have hen collection points all over the country. We do not make a charge for the hens or their adoption, but we do welcome donations which go towards covering what we pay the farmers, vet fees, petrol, phone bills, trailers, equipment and feed as well as supporting our ongoing and very successful campaign work for a free range future. The average donation we receive is £3-4 per hen but any donation will be gratefully received. | |
| The Battery Hen A farming method which is changing - slowly. What can we do? There are 30,000,000 chickens in this country - 85% of these are 'living' in Battery Farms. 70% of the above are kept in sheds containing 20,000 birds or more, some up to 100,000. The minimum legal requirement of space for one bird is just under three quarters the size of an A4 sheet of paper. Most farms have 4 or 5 birds per cage. The cages being approx. 20 inches x 20 inches (500 x 500) visit site to find out more | |





