Fresh Start For Hens Reviews 4

TrustScore 4 out of 5

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  1. Animal Rescue Service

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We are a long established, non profit organisation, consisting entirely of volunteers who are dedicated to rehoming ex commercial hens into pet homes, and saving little feathery lives. Egg laying hens are sent to slaughter at 72 weeks. We offer the farmer an alternative to slaughter and find vetted homes for hens to live out their retirement. We rehome free range, barn and caged hens (previously known as battery hens or ex batts) and cover the majority of England and Wales.


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4.0

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Picked hens up from their Harrogate…

Picked hens up from their Harrogate location on Saturday 3 Jan. I was originally down for three but took four. Given a time slot to arrive and otherwise well organised right down to somebody running the car parking. Drama-free and efficient. A couple of the hens are a bit tatty but this is to be expected of ex bats. Whilst I have ex free range now, I have had ex bats before and they are certainly no worse than they were and in fact two of the four are a lot better.

3 January 2026
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A Charity that Really Does Care

The ONLY people who were understanding and extremely helpful when we found an abandoned cockerel being attacked by foxes. Other animal rescue charities including the RSPCA did not want to know! Vets only wanted to euthanise and charge for it, and one particular vet argued stating that a cockerel/rooster or hen is a wild animal - really? That is extremely worrying! Fresh Start for Hens was a last chance phone call as we tried so many charities and people who sold poultry. We were guided and helped and these amazing people arranged to take this poor badly injured cockerel into their loving expert care, they are doing so much to help and rehabilitate poultry - something many people (including myself) have been completely ignorant about.

23 June 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Rescue hens

The fact that these people care enough to rescue poorly treated hens from death. People take them to be pets and to live out their days with room to roam and enjoy their retirement. Have got hens from them before. They do a magnificent job.

15 November 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A Company Doing Excellent Work & Wonderful Volunteers

I have re-homed hens from FSFH on several occasions from the Coventry collection point.

The company does excellent work and the volunteers at the Coventry collection are absolutely wonderful ladies, who couldn't be more helpful.

Thank you FSFH so much for continuing to rescue hens who have had a traumatic life until their re-homing and thank you to the volunteers who are simply wonderful people.

26 February 2022
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