Welcoming Henrietta to her new coop! 🐔
His Majesty The King has rehomed our ONE MILLIONTH hen at
@HighgroveGarden
in Gloucestershire.
Our millionth hen, named Henrietta by His Majesty, along with 30 feathered friends are settling into their wonderful new home.
@RoyalFamily
Special Announcement! 🙌
We couldn’t be happier to announce
@RealBobMortimer
as our new patron.
Thank you from us and our flocks, Bob – having you onboard will help us to keep raising awareness and improving life for our feathered friends.
#bobmortimer
#newpatron
#bhwt
#tbt
to this ADORABLE clip of little Mimi singing
@AnneMarie
's Rockabye to her little hen Heidi. WARNING: this video will melt your heart.
#throwbackthursday
COVID-19 may have stopped us from rehoming hens but it won't stop us being at the end of the phone to offer support for all hens during the crisis and beyond. Please consider donating to our Hen Helpline fundraising appeal if you can:
Thank you.
Would you like to win a personalised
@sophieallport
Christmas stocking & 2 Christmas mugs? 🎅🎄
All you have to do is:
🎁 Like this post & follow both accounts.
🎁 Retweet this post.
[Competition closes on 09.12.21 at 12pm. The winner will be contacted via DM. T&Cs apply.]
REHOMING EMERGENCY! ⚠️We have 500 caged hens in Northumberland that's never seen the sunshine, tasted grass, or stood on soft ground. We really want to help them but we still have 350 lives that are depending on us. 💔 Please can you help?
It's official folks! It’s all the rage for celebrities to keep hens that they have rescued from slaughter!
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were seen this morning sitting in their chicken coop whilst being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey! There’s something you don’t see every day!
AMAZING NEWS! All 900 hens we got from the farm yesterday have now found homes!!! Thank you so much for opening your hearts and homes to these girls... you're the best supporters out there, we are truly grateful! And so are the girls!!!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
They’re back! 💥 The
@realbobmortimer
Christmas Cards that sold out in 48 hours are now restocked and we also have our new
@sophieallport
Christmas Cards in stock! 🙌
With all profits going to the BHWT, why not get yourself a pack, or two today? 🙏
This is Floppy, a hen living her best life.
"She does chuff-all, lays one egg a month (which she eats) and she disturbs my video meetings by announcing the other hens’ achievements but she’s our total favourite and has earned her retirement times over."
Never change Floppy! 💖
THEY'RE BACK! Comedian Bob Mortimer shows his love for us! Celebs love the BHWT! And to show their love sometimes they create the most wonderful things for us... like these Christmas cards by comedian
@RealBobMortimer
!
Get them while you still can!
Hundreds of hens are in urgent need of homes to go to this weekend. Can you help? If so please register () and then call 01884 860084. Re-homings taking place in Dorset, Hampshire, Kent, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Rotherham, Somerset, Surrey and Sussex.
We've been given the chance to save these gorgeous hens from slaughter in Oxford and Wiltshire on 1 December. There are 650 needing homes - can you help? If so please register at and then call 01884 860084.
This little beauty will be starting her first full week as a free-range hen, thanks to our volunteers, including our lovely Amy Hamilton who posted this photo. We'll be tracking her progress and will let you know when her feathers start growing back 🥰
Heartbreak, absolute heartbreak. This girl hardly has a feather on her, she looks so sad. I hope she recovers.
This is what humans do by eating packaged goods using caged eggs. You're paying for this, people are making money out of treating animals like this.
Make better choices.
Monday morning smiles! Here's Pretty Hen showing off her hen agility skills, thanks to her owner Jen. Pretty impressive stuff... and inspiration for any keen chicken trainers out there?!
#mondaymotivation
#smiles
#agility
#BHWT
Meet Mrs Claus. She came out of her cage this weekend and was so adorable that our founder Jane has taken her home to live out her free range retirement in peace. Merry Christmas Mrs Claus!
#Christmas2017
GOOD LUCK to all of this weekend's re-homing teams, who will be sending over 1,000 hens off to start their free range retirements.
#happyhens
#freerange
We urgently need your help to save over 450 hens this weekend in Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridge and Norfolk. These girls need re-homing or they will be going to slaughter. If you can help please call our re-homing team on 01884 860084
#Herts
#Norfolk
#Essex
#Cambridge
#freerange
Well done to Julie Smith (
@ExBatsforEver
) for promoting the benefits that hen keeping can have on mental health on
@thismorning
! It's something we're passionate about and it's wonderful to see it being talked about on such a high profile platform:
A first taste of freedom! This past weekend our Cheshire volunteer team had it's biggest rehoming ever, with 590 hens off to their new homes! 🥳🐔
A massive thank you to all of the 100 adopters and volunteers up in Cheshire for all your help and support. 👏
#HappyEverAfter
We've found homes for all our Newark hens, thanks to our supporters! That's over 200 hens booked in one day, which makes us very happy. Cheers to the weekend!
It's a Christmas miracle...120 hens were left behind after the slaughter lorry came to pick them up, so the farmer called us and we are re-homing them instead! The hens can be picked up from Rose Ash between 9am and 5pm any day next week! Please call 01884 860084 to book.
It's Transformation Tuesday time! 🤩🎉
This week we introduce the fabulous Florentine.
Read Florentine's story, and submit your own Transformation Tuesday here🐔💪:
Sadly we still have 120 hens left without homes for Christmas. They can be collected anytime from South Zeal in Okehampton - please give us a call on 01884 860084 from 30 December onwards so we can find them cosy coops ASAP.
Lola the little scared hen was adopted in September of 2020. She began her new life sticking to the highest point of the coop, feeling safest on the shoulder of her human. 6 months on she has transformed into the friendliest hen ever known!
Read more:
Whoops, we got carried away and brought home 300 eggstra hens this weekend. We just couldn't leave these beautiful girls behind. So, we need your help - if you're in
#Devon
and have room for these ladies in your life, pls call 01884 860084 to adopt your flock 🐓😍
#BHWT
#exbats
Did you see us? We're very proud to have been part of tonight's episode of
@jamieoliver
and
@jimmysfarm
's Friday Night Feast, highlighting the hidden eggs making their way into our everyday foods.
This is the start of our first and BIGGEST rehoming weekend of 2021! We want to say a big thank you to everyone who is collecting their hens this weekend!
Don't worry if you missed out - we are busy
planning our next rehoming already!
Have lovely weekend and stay safe!
Happy
#NationalPetMonth
! Here's Chicky (the hen!) having a cuddle with Mickey - cuteness overload! Tweet us your favourite picture of your hen(s) enjoying life as much-loved pets ❤️
We've got lots of hens needing homes this weekend in Lincolnshire, Berkshire, Cheshire, Devon and Oxford - can you adopt some in time for
#Christmas
? If so please call Hen Central on 01884 860084.
#happyhens
#freerange
Quasi the hunchback hen arrived with a deformed neck, so she went home with one of our wonderful poorly hen carers for some extra TLC. Vets said she wouldn't last long... That was over a year ago 🥰
#happyhens
#exbatts
#exbatteryhens
Hentroducing our Hen of the Month winner for May - Mrs Overall! This shot was taken by David Neighbour as Mrs Overall inspected the primroses. Like all of us, she thought spring would never arrive!
Well aren't you all incre-egg-able! 🥳
We are now full at our Gateshead rehoming site for this weekend. Yesterday we still had well over 200 hens needing homes but thanks to your response, these lucky girls will all have a cosy coop to call home this Saturday! 💕🐓
Urgent appeal: We've got hundreds of girls hoping to fly free of their cages and start a new free-range life this weekend. Can you help these ladies and find room for them at the bottom of your garden? They might even reward you with an egg or two...
#Coventry
#Cambridge
#Boncath
Happy Halloween to all of you lovely hen helpers and of course, the hens themselves! 👻
How are you celebrating Halloween this year? Are your hens getting in the spooky spirit? Then why not share your pictures with us, or tell us what they are getting up to!🐔
Are you a hen lover in Lancashire? We have 600 coming out of their cages on 9 December but only 300 have homes to go to. If you can save a hen from slaughter this Christmas please call 01884 860084.
LOTS of hens still needing homes in Oxford (Didcot) and Wiltshire (South Marston) this Saturday, 24 August - can you help? Please retweet and help us save these girls' lives 🙏☺️🐔
The results are in for this year's
@JustGiving
Charity of the Year 2018...and YOU DID IT!! There were over 30,000 votes and you got us into the top three! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who voted!
We saved 30 free-range hens from slaughter two weeks ago, yet 30 of them are still waiting to find their permanent homes. They're living in South Zeal in Devon, waiting to be rehomed. Can you help? If so please call Hen Central on 01884 860084.
"Now that all the humans are home and I've got a captive audience, it's time I taught them how to play this thing properly!"
Go on Betty, play us a little tune 🎹 😂
#CharityTuesday
#TuesdayTunes
#BHWT
#ExBatts
And here's Jennifer now! Her wound has gone and, while she's missing a few feathers on her rear end, we think she's looking beautiful. She popped into Hen Central to show off!
We have hundreds of beautiful free range organic hens looking for homes in Milton Keynes, Coventry and Oxford this Sunday, otherwise they'll go to slaughter just like the caged girls. Can you adopt some? If so please call 01884 860084 before 4pm tomorrow.
#happyhens
Calling hen lovers in Devon. We STILL have 18 lovely little hens left from our South Zeal rehoming in December! They're desperate to start their free-range retirements, so please get in touch if you can offer them a permanent home. Call 01884 860084 to book.
Transformation Tuesday
Quite a transformation this week! From completely bald to healthy hen, this little girl has been so strong! Read her transformation story on our website – it’s not one you want to miss!
Introducing our Hen of the Month winner for April 2018 - Jolley sent in by Karl Mortimer! Jolley was re-homed from Derby last month and can be seen warming up with her feline friend Brandy after she was found sheltering from the rain.
Our 750,000th hen winged her way to her new home in Northumberland on Sunday! Thank you to every single one of our supporters who has helped us reach this huge milestone.