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- "EMPATHY MEETS DETERMINATION” British Hen Welfare Trust scoops national award for Animal Welfare at Charity Today Awards 2025
- “Size Matters” our latest hen welfare awareness campaign is underway and gaining steam
- 5 tips to successfully merge chicken flocks
- 6 tips on how to recognise your pet hens
- A beginner’s insight to a hen rehoming day
- A guide to chicken treats; everything in moderation
- A guide to chickens and sand
- A guide to UK egg production
- A Healthy Boredom Buster For Your Flock
- A hen's tale of hope
- A Smarter and Greener Way to Store Your Hen's Eggs!
- A tribute to Olive
- A virtual marathon for a very real cause
- A warm welcome to our new BHWT Patron, Professor Ben Garrod
- A<strong>vian flu housing order: top tips to keep your hens happy</strong>
- Adopted hen Lauren stars in fundraising campaign
- Adopted hens help probation hostel residents to open up
- Adopting two hens
- Aldi
- All I want for Christmas is… to help the hens!
- All in a day's work for team Berkeley in Gloucestershire
- An Amazing Bit of Teamwork: We Saved 900 Hens from Slaughter & Found Them Homes in under 24 Hours!
- An eggs-traordinary lockdown effort!
- An interview with Egg Club member Alex Ashton
- An interview with Egg Club member Rachel Robinson
- An update on cage-free eggs in the UK
- And off flies our 750,000th hen
- Apple cider vinegar for chickens - a natural way to good hen health
- Are chickens bird-brained?
- Around the BHWT: One Woman’s Journey to Save Lives… Including Her Own
- August 2020 sees over 225% increase in rehomings
- Autumnal hen health advice
- Avian flu found on commercial farm in Mid Suffolk
- Avian Influenza 2025 – keeping your hens safe
- Avian Influenza 2025: the latest
- Avian Influenza restrictions 2023: When can I let my chickens out?
- Avian Influenza restrictions to be lifted
- Avian Influenza zones explained
- Avoiding chicken fly strike
- Backyard Poultry: Challenging times for the BHWT
- BBC News: Hens looking for 'little bit of TLC' in retirement
- Before and after: how a rehomed hen transforms
- Beware! Red Kites!
- BHWT Devon volunteer rehoming team hits 500th rehoming day
- BHWT says bonjour to new affiliation
- BHWT volunteer and driver Helen tells us all
- Bird migration season and your hen’s health
- Bob Mortimer becomes hen charity’s newest patron
- British Airways
- British Hen Welfare Trust collaborates with cross-government parties Including DEFRA
- British Hen Welfare Trust named JustGiving Charity of the Year 2018
- BSAVA Petsavers Partners with the British Hen Welfare Trust to offer new student grant
- Can hens get zinc poisoning?
- Can I keep chickens on my allotment?
- Caring for chickens in hot weather
- Caring for chickens in winter: 12 top tips
- Caring for hens in schools during the COVID-19 outbreak
- Charity of the month!
- Chicken boredom busters: keeping your birds hentertained
- Chicken dust bath: The ultimate spa treatment
- Chicken enrichment: Top tips for making your run more fun
- Choosing the right hen house
- Chuck Chocs for Chooks
- Church welcomes a whole new type of flock by becoming a hen adoption site
- Co-op
- Coffee with the Chicken Ladies: Interview with Jane Howorth
- Community Fundraising
- Community Spirit!
- Cooking The Books: Interview with Orlando Murrin, president of The Guild Of Food Writers, championing our size matters campaign
- Coordinators, this one’s for YOU
- Cosy coops = cheerful chickens
- Cotswold Life: By royal appointment
- Cotswold Life: From rescue to roost: Hens strutting their stuff
- Could love be in the air for our lonely cockerels?
- Could you host rehoming events for hens saved from slaughter?
- Could you make your lasting legacy by leaving a gift in your will to the British Hen Welfare Trust?
- Country Life: How keeping chickens boomed in the pandemic and the charity helping new keepers do it right
- Country Life: The tale of happy hens
- Country Lifestyle: Keeping chickens
- Country Smallholder: The power of a passion for poultry that led to changes for chickens
- Covid-19 impacts donations for hen rehomings and hen welfare
- Creating a boot dip at home
- Daily Express: Highgrove Henrietta is a very clucky hen
- Daily Mail: Coronation chicken! King Charles rehomes charity's one millionth hen - which he has named Henrietta - at his Highgrove estate
- Daily Mail: It's cluckingham palace!
- Daily Mail: The posh henhouses that laid a £33million golden egg
- Deadline approaching to register hens with APHA
- DEFRA invites us to their conference on Avian Influenza: "What the spread of AI could look like for backyard birds"
- Defra-aApproved Nettex virocur disinfectant here to help flocks stay safe from Avian Influenza this winter
- Derbyshire Times: Hen welfare charity thanks Derbyshire residents for saving 1,600 birds
- Devon charity explains why hens are squawking more loudly
- Devon Life: Close encounters of the bird kind
- Devon Life: Jane Howorth: My Devon
- Diatomaceous Earth Powder: What is it and how should you use it?
- Do chickens attract rats?
- Do chickens eat grass and is it good for them?
- Do recovering ex-bats need to wear hen coats?
- Do You Have a Young Chicken Keeper in Your Flock Who Loves Photography? If So, You Could Win a £600 Voucher!
- Does Size Matter? – Yes it does!
- Don’t struggle with Lino
- Double award success
- Dr Jennie, Bradley Walsh and Four Bennett Sisters; What else could you want on a sunday night on ITV?
- East Anglian Daily Times: Hundreds of battery hens are rehomed - And you can still help too
- Egg Club interview with Kat
- Egg Club interview with Liz Pinfield-Wells
- Egg production: How winter could affect your hens
- Eggs are back on the supermarket shelves, and ex-bats are on their way!
- Eggs: brown vs. white
- Ex-cage hens find free-range freedom in Cheshire
- Express: King Charles and Queen Camilla are leading the UK's chicken adoption trend
- Express: King Charles sparks royal fan frenzy as he rehomes feathered friends at Highgrove
- Fabulous fundraisers - December 2025
- Fabulous fundraisers - January 2026
- Fabulous fundraisers - March 2026
- Fabulous fundraisers - November 2025
- Fabulous fundraisers: April 2026
- Fabulous fundraisers: June 2026
- Falkirk Herald: Banknock ‘jogfather’ set for marathon around Denny in aid of hen welfare
- Fancy Becoming a Runny Egg?
- Farming UK: Consumers urged to eat a wider range of egg sizes
- Farming UK: Hen bone fractures caused by large eggs, study says
- Featured Product | Verm-X
- Feeding chickens kitchen scraps
- Fleurie: The dynamo hen
- Flock Star: meet Egg Clubber Victoria Hearsey
- Flockdown is over: what next?
- Fly strike in chickens
- Forget chocolate eggs, this Easter it’s all about fundraising for hens!
- Four tips for introducing chickens to dogs and other pets
- From Anthony with love; The boy who wrote to his hen
- From Britain to Taiwan: Helping hens wherever they need us
- From Zero to 10,000! A Big Congrats Goes out to the Cheshire Rehoming Team!
- From zero to a thousand; How many eggs can three hens lay?
- From zero to ten thousand - Cheshire team rehomes it’s 10,000th hen
- Fundraising Focus: Making some ‘buck, buck, bucks’ for BHWT!
- Gardener turned fundraiser, Liz Ruddock, sells her prize veggies to raise money for the BHWT
- Gazette News: Pals take to the skies for fundraiser
- Germany to be the first country to ban mass male chick culling
- Getting your hens to drink medicated water
- Give as You Live
- Gloria the special dog – er we mean hen!
- Good Food Magazine: The truth about eggs
- GOV UK: Poultry keepers – Act now to reduce your risk from bird flu this winter
- Grimsby Live: Woman's delight as her photogenic hen to appear in homes all over the country
- Gro-ing in Confidence
- Handling chickens 101: The importance of picking them up!
- Harvester
- Heat: Life hacks
- Hello: King Charles makes surprising adoption at country home - royal fans react
- Hello: King Charles' designer house for latest additions at Highgrove revealed
- Hello: The King counting his chickens - including one-in-a-million Henrietta
- Help Us Build A Nest Egg With Regular Giving
- Help us win a donation - it's free!
- Helpful hens
- Hen anatomy: do hens have ears?
- Hen charity leads the way in facilitating first research into pet chickens
- Hen Friends: The Harebell Hens Story
- Hen Hotel
- Hen housing set ups for winter
- Hen leg health: what to look out for in your flock
- Hen rehomings during the COVID-19 outbreak
- Hen Spotlight: Ida, the Little Hen Who Could
- Henlightened, July 2026
- Hens to rejoice following Australian battery cage ban
- Higgidy + the BHWT – celebrating a dozen years in partnership
- His Majesty The King rehomes national charity’s ONE MILLIONTH HEN at Highgrove Gardens
- Home remedies for hens
- Homes & Gardens: Keeping chickens – a guide to keeping hens in your backyard
- How ‘therapeutic’ pet hens help George with his autism
- How chickens can enrich your garden!
- How do hens breathe?
- How do I avoid a muddy chicken run?
- How do you like your eggs in the morning? Brown, white, blue?
- How does my hen produce an egg every day?
- How Far Would You Walk to Help Hens?
- How many eggs is too many?
- How to create a chicken-friendly garden
- How to keep your chickens calm on Bonfire Night
- How to set up a JustGiving page
- How to speak chicken – what are they trying to tell us?
- How to spot, prevent and treat worms in chickens
- If it’s got wings, we’ll help it!
- Improve Veterinary Practice: Charity and university team offering ground-breaking online poultry course
- Improving your experience with your vet
- In Conversation With: Creating a community chicken With Professor Ben Garrod
- In Conversation With: Dr Jane Goodall DBE;
- In Conversation With: Harbour & Jones
- In Conversation With: Jane Osgathorp
- In conversation with: Kat Shovlin - Henfluencer
- In Conversation With: Sarah Joseph, on adopting hens and living within the planet’s means
- In Conversation With: Sophie Allport
- In Your Area: West Wickham woman's marathon effort to help save hens from slaughter
- In-ovo sexing gains momentum
- Independent: King adopts British Hen Welfare Trust’s one millionth hen
- International reach of the BHWT
- Is it safe to adopt hens during Avian Influenza?
- Is there an ex-commercial hen vaccine?
- Is this the chicken-iest wedding ever?
- It rained on Jane’s parade but winning a Woman & Home Award can’t dampen our spirits
- ITV News: Who saw us on TV?
- Iweekend: Henrietta, Hen in a million is fit for the king
- Jane awarded MBE in New Year's Honours list 2016
- January: henrichment, hen health boosters and muddy runs
- Join our Egg Club!
- Keep unwanted visitors at bay
- Keeping chickens: what to expect from your new arrivals
- Keeping hens happy during firework season
- Keeping hens safe from predators
- Kent Life: Give a feathered friend a new home
- Learning Disability Week: how rehomed hens bring joy to neurodivergent students on Somerset farm
- Leaving A Gift In Your Will
- Leg catching policy 2025
- Legacy giving for tax efficiency
- Let them eat cake… all while helping hens
- Lichfield Live: Lichfield man’s picture of pet hen wins a place in charity calendar
- Life behind bars
- Loo rolls, eggs & COVID-19
- Lucy Griffith spends a night in the bath for hen welfare fundraiser!
- Making Birthdays Even More Meaningful Gets a Big Thumbs Up
- McDonald’s
- Medieval mischief with a very special support hen
- Metro: Why aren’t free-range eggs available in the UK and will they be back?
- Mirror: Race to save 50 hens from slaughter as charity says they're 'affectionate' pets
- Modern Gardens: Here to help!
- Momentum gathering behind campaign to reduce egg sizes
- Morrisons
- My Weekly: A million hens rescued by love
- Newbury man chosen to be hen charity’s London marathon runner
- News 18: UK NGO organises adoption day for chickens, saves them from slaughter
- Nine-year-old Benjamin takes on global biscuit brand
- Nottingham Post: Chickens on death row help ease Nottingham prisoners back into society
- October rehoming round-up: Making in-roads for hen rehomings with new free range farms
- One woman’s journey from accidental chicken keeper to dedicated volunteer
- Osterreich: König Charles holt ein Huhn in den Palast
- Our best-selling red mite treatment: Dergall
- Our July fundraiser update…
- Our ultimate guide to red mite
- Plan to ban cages for laying hens by 2032
- Poorly Carers and Foster Homes Needed
- Portsmouth News: 200 caged hens saved from slaughter at Rowlands Castle get chance to spread their wings
- Poultry News: Vet students get hands on with BHWT hens
- Pret A Manger
- Prima: We've given a million hens happy homes!
- Product Spotlight: Dengie Fresh Bed for Chickens
- Product Spotlight: Little Feed Co launches two new products
- Product Spotlight: Our new cosy hen autumn bundle
- Red mite and how you can avoid them
- Red mites and everything you've ever wanted to know about Diatomaceous Earth
- Registering with Defra
- Rehoming days are safer thanks to grant from Support Adoption for Pets!
- Rehoming Is Like a Box of Chocolates… You Never Know What You’re Going To Get!
- REMINDER: all hens now need to be registered
- Runny eggs declared safe for 'vulnerable' people
- Sainsbury's commits to free-range eggs
- Scotsman Magazine: Pecking order
- Seven egg facts for World Egg Day
- Smallholder Range
- Somerset Life: Ladies in waiting
- South West Farmer: Large eggs bad for hen welfare and farmers says BHWT
- Special delivery to professor Ben Garrod's community project in Bristol
- Spring Chickens – top seasonal tips for hen owners
- Spring clean your way to a happy hen house
- Student vets volunteer to get hands-on with chickens in need of new homes
- Suitably Qualified Person
- Susan Hughes: forever helping hens
- Take a Break: Birds of a feather…
- Take a Break: Size does matter
- Team interview: Aimee Myers, Rehoming & Online Shop Assistant
- Team interview: Andy Hill, Senior Marketing & Communications Officer
- Team interview: Francesca Mapp, Joint Head of Operations
- Team interview: Gaynor Davies, Head of Welfare
- Team interview: Jane Howorth MBE, Founder & CEO
- Team interview: Laura Elliott, Trust Fundraiser
- Team interview: Meg Conibere, Online Shop Manager
- Team interview: Rachel Jenkins, Rehoming Team Leader
- Thankfully amazing volunteers aren’t as rare as hens’ teeth
- The BHWT shortlisted for the Charity Awards 2023
- The complete guide to caring for a broody hen
- The correct way to diagnose Coccidiosis
- The Country Smallholder: Birthday to celebrate
- The Country Smallholder: Cage-free eggs: an update from the BHWT
- The Country Smallholder: Eggs around the world - an industry update
- The Country Smallholder: Spring clean your hen house
- The Country Smallholder: What links a hen charity and dinosaurs?
- The Country Smallholder: What uses are there for cockerels?
- The Courier: Give a hen a home: Why you should consider adopting a feathered friend
- The Eco News: Adopted hens at heart of food sustainability project!
- The Eggs Factor
- The Holistic Animal Therapist; Therapist by day, fundraiser by night
- The importance of worming chickens
- The little hen that sparked a 96-mile fundraising trek
- The pecking order
- The Poultry Site: Size isn't the only concern why buying eggs
- The Simple Things: Cluck and collect
- The Standard: King adopts British Hen Welfare Trust’s one millionth hen
- The Sun: ROYAL FLOCK King adopts 31 rescue hens and gives them a new life at his royal mansion – including one named Henrietta
- The Telegraph: Forget lockdown – I’m celebrating the end of cluckdown
- The Telegraph: The hen house and the big house: Prisoners see battery chickens as ‘kin’
- The Times: 15 biggest food myths debunked
- The Times: A beginner’s guide to keeping chickens like Harry and Meghan
- The Times: All the King’s hens: Charles welcomes rescue chickens to Highgrove
- The top 6 most common chicken health problems
- The ultimate guide to chicken bedding
- The uropygial gland explained
- This England: Hen Hero
- Tips on how to keep rats out during hen lockdown!
- Tips to help a broody chicken
- Top three chicken crop issues
- Top tips for a fox-proof chicken coop
- Top tips for dealing with chicken lice
- Top tips for keeping chickens as pets
- Top tips on handling chicken bullying
- Trio tackle cramps, fatigue, and postponements to complete fundraising marathons
- Turning miles of exercise into money to help our hens
- Understanding hen behaviour
- Vent gleet: what you need to know
- Vent pecking and how to prevent it
- Verm-X herbal support for hens
- Vet Times: Student vets get hands-on with hens in need
- Veterinary Practice: BSAVA PetSavers partners with the British Hen Welfare Trust to offer new student grant
- Veterinary Practice: Students and nurses encouraged to apply for research grants
- Volunteer insights: Dan Mart!
- Volunteer might hate going up a ladder but is taking to the skies for the BHWT
- Volunteer of the Month: Cathy Reeves
- Volunteer of the month: Derek Rigler
- Volunteer of the month: Janet Mason
- Waitrose Weekend: Lessons from the good life
- WATCH: Hen health videos
- We rehome our 900,000th hen, a world first!
- We're going global! World Hen Welfare is LIVE
- Welt am Sonntag: Ein huhn
- Western Daily Press: King adopts the millionth hen saved by chicken charity
- Wetherspoon
- What are fairy eggs?
- What are scaly leg mites?
- What causes a soft shell egg?
- What do my hen’s comb and wattle tell me?
- What happens to chickens in moult?
- What is a lash egg?
- What is bumblefoot?
- What is egg yolk peritonitis?
- What is the Hen Helpline?
- What is wry neck and can I prevent it?
- What to do after a fox attack
- What to do with a lonely chicken
- What's french for cluck?
- What's in your chicken feed?
- When Belinda met Pickle; A keeper to volunteer story
- Why can't I buy free-range eggs?
- Why chickens sunbathe, plus hot weather tips
- Why do hens eat their eggs?
- Why does my hen need chicken grit?
- Why is rehoming hens like cycling around the world?
- Why we are pro probiotics
- Why you should think twice about hatching chicks
- Why you should think twice about hatching chicks
- Wing clipping – Do I need to do it?
- Winter biosecurity in the age of Avian Influenza
- Winter dust baths for chickens
- Winter gardens for chickens
- Woman's Weekly: A chicken love story
- Woman's Weekly: The British Hen Welfare Trust celebrated rescusing and rehoming one million hens
- Your News: Giving hens a new home
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