The former commercial layers in Redruth are at the centre of an urgent rehoming appeal by the British Hen Welfare Trust.

Hundreds of hens need new homes to avoid slaughter. The British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT) is urgently appealing for adopters in Pembrokeshire, Bristol, and Warwickshire to come forward and rehome the ...

The former commercial layers in Redruth are at the centre of an urgent rehoming appeal by the British Hen Welfare Trust.

AN URGENT appeal has been launched to find new homes for hens in Warwickshire. Over 150 caged hens are without a home in the ...

Animal lovers are being urged to open their coops — or back gardens — as a charity scrambles to rehome hundreds of caged hens ...

Britons are inviting ex-battery chickens into their homes in unprecedented numbers, according to the British Hen Welfare Trust. The charity has been inundated with reservations for chicken keeping ...

By C.W. SINCE 2006 British hens have laid roughly 100bn eggs, enough for about 150 per person, per year. Most of the eggs came from caged hens, which for most of that period were boxed up in tiny ...

A chicken in Cambridgeshire, England, shocked its owners when it seemed on the verge of a natural sex change. Owner Jeanette Howard and her husband began noticing the changes after the hen, Gertie ...

The British Hen Welfare Trust has been running for 20 years. The chickens are rescued from factory farms with about 60,000 rehomed each year to places including people's gardens, schools and prisons.