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- Medieval mischief with a very special support hen
- How do I avoid a muddy chicken run?
- Why does my hen need chicken grit?
- The importance of worming chickens
- How to keep your chickens calm on Bonfire Night
- What happens to chickens in moult?
- Seven egg facts for World Egg Day
- Are chickens bird-brained?
- The pecking order
- How do hens breathe?
- Team Interview: Heather Elven, Director of Operations
- What is bumblefoot?
- Egg Club interview
- Top three chicken crop issues
- The Lady: A gift to remember
- UPDATE: Feeding kitchen scraps to hens
- Euronews: 'Dogs with feathers'. Could your next pet be a chicken rescue from an egg farm?
- Do chickens eat grass and is it good for them?
- WATCH: Hen health videos
- What do my hen’s comb and wattle tell me?
- What to do after a fox attack
- What is wry neck and can I prevent it?
- Sainsbury's Magazine: Size matters
- Keeping hens safe from chicken predators
- The Telegraph: Are posh eggs all they're cracked up to be?
- What are scaly leg mites?
- Ideal Home: Why Mrs Hinch's wholesome new hobby has taken social media by storm
- Vent gleet: what you need to know
- Home remedies for hens
- Period Living: Feathered Friends
- Caring for chickens in hot weather
- Our ultimate guide to red mite
- The uropygial gland explained
- Diatomaceous Earth Powder: What is it and how should you use it?
- Country Life: The upward chicken
- Team interview: Jade Powis, Marketing Officer
- Top tips for dealing with chicken lice
- Creating a hen-friendly garden
- BHWT is shortlisted for the Charity Awards 2023
- The BHWT shortlisted for the Charity Awards 2023
- The Country Smallholder: Create a hen-friendly garden
- Flockdown is over: what next?
- The Country Smallholder: Could you help hens and win £25,000?
- What is egg yolk peritonitis?
- Team interview: Aimee Myers, Rehoming & Online Shop Assistant
- Avian Influenza restrictions to be lifted
- The Country Smallholder: Spring into action and join our egg club
- Tips to help a broody chicken
- My Weekly: The power of pets
- Sponsor a Hen this Easter
- Why do hens eat their eggs?
- Henlightened March 2023
- Is there an ex-commercial hen vaccine?
- Team interview: Megan Holland, Corporate Partnerships Fundraiser
- A guide to UK egg production
- An interview with Egg Club member Alex Ashton
- Vent pecking and how to prevent it
- Chuck Chocs for Chooks
- The Country Smallholder: Adopt some spring chickens
- Can I keep chickens on my allotment?
- Great British Life: 5 reasons why you should adopt a hen
- Hen anatomy: do hens have ears?
- What's in your chicken feed?
- The Lady: Love My Pet
- The ultimate guide to chicken bedding
- The Guardian: Want free eggs? Don’t buy chicks – rescue hens
- The Country Smallholder: BHWT rehomes 900,000th hen
- Is it safe to adopt hens during Avian Influenza?
- What causes a soft shell egg?
- Avian Influenza restrictions 2023: When can I let my chickens out?
- Backyard Poultry: Rehoming chickens, helping the environment
- Do chickens attract rats?
- Chicken boredom busters: keeping your birds hentertained
- The Country Smallholder: boredom busters, biosecurity and beating AI
- Is it safe to feed my hens Christmas leftovers?
- Henlightened December 2022
- What to do with a lonely chicken
- Speciality Food: Farming industry calls for government action on egg crisis
- The Guardian: UK egg shortages to last beyond Christmas, industry warns
- We rehome our 900,000th hen, a world first!
- Caring for chickens in winter: 12 top tips
- Creating a boot dip at home
- Greatest Hits Radio (Devon): Bird flu 'national housing order' comes into force
- Do recovering ex-bats need to wear hen coats?
- The Guardian: ‘They’re not bird-brained’: the joy of keeping chickens – and a quick how-to guide
- Bird migration season and your hen’s health
- Keeping hens happy during firework season
- A<strong>vian flu housing order: top tips to keep your hens happy</strong>
- Henlightened October 2022
- Avian Influenza zones explained
- Happiful: Good eggs - How chickens are changing lives and enhancing wellbeing
- BBC News: Hens near Redruth need rehoming to avoid slaughter
- 6 tips on how to recognise your pet hens
- An interview with Egg Club member Rachel Robinson
- Autumnal hen welfare advice
- Winter gardens for chickens
- A guide to chicken treats; everything in moderation
- The top 6 most common chicken health problems
- How many eggs a day does a hen lay, and how?
- Hens to rejoice following Australian battery cage ban
- Four tips for introducing chickens to dogs and other pets
- Essex Live: How you can rehome rescued ex-caged chickens just like Mrs Hinch
- 5 tips to successfully merge chicken flocks
- Chicken dust bath: The ultimate spa treatment
- Wing clipping – Do I need to do it?
- Adopted hen Lauren stars in fundraising campaign
- The Eco News: Adopted hens at heart of food sustainability project!
- What are lash eggs?
- Country Smallholding: Keeping hens in tip top condition
- People's Friend: Great eggs-ercise - Shani Marshall's Egg Club
- Just Giving: Charity of the year - Past winners
- In Conversation With: Sarah Joseph, on adopting hens and living within the planet’s means
- Olive Magazine: 10 tips for sustainable eating
- The correct way to diagnose Coccidiosis
- Gloria the special dog – er we mean hen!
- Fly Strike
- Red mite and how you can avoid them
- Could you make your lasting legacy by leaving a gift in your will to the British Hen Welfare Trust?
- Adopting two hens
- Fairy eggs
- Country Smallholding: Flockdowns could become an annual occurrence experts say
- Sainsburys: Food hero
- Which hen house should I buy?
- Let them eat cake… all while helping hens
- Why so noisy? What is your chicken trying to tell you?
- How to create a chicken-friendly garden
- Newbury man chosen to be hen charity’s London marathon runner
- Improve Veterinary Practice: Charity and university team offering ground-breaking online poultry course
- The Simple Things: Cluck and collect
- How chickens can enrich your garden!
- Country Lifestyle: Keeping chickens
- Bride Magazine: Pet hen makes guest appearance in couple's wedding photos
- Understanding chicken behaviour; Why does the chicken always want to cross the road?
- Backyard Poultry: Challenging times for the BHWT
- Metro: Why aren’t free-range eggs available in the UK and will they be back?
- Spring clean your way to a happy hen house
- Why can't I buy free-range eggs?
- Volunteer might hate going up a ladder but is taking to the skies for the BHWT
- How do you like your eggs in the morning? Brown, white, blue?
- If it’s got wings, we’ll help it!
- ITV News: Peebles event being run to rehome hundreds of chickens
- Good Organic Gardening: New home, new life
- Coffee with the Chicken Ladies: Interview with Jane Howorth
- How to spot, prevent and treat worms in chickens
- Forget chocolate eggs, this Easter it’s all about fundraising for hens!
- ITV News: Who saw us on TV?
- International reach of the BHWT
- Handling hens 101: The importance of picking them up!
- Vet Record: Knowledge Gaps Must be Filled to Tackle AI
- Poultry News: Vet students get hands on with BHWT hens
- Why you should think twice about hatching chicks
- Could you host rehoming events for hens saved from slaughter?
- News Eggs-tra: How to give a home to a happy hen
- Veterinary Practice: Students and nurses encouraged to apply for research grants
- What is the Hen Helpline?
- In Conversation With: Creating a community chicken With Professor Ben Garrod
- From Britain to Taiwan: Helping hens wherever they need us
- Egg production: How winter and the hen lockdown could affect your hens
- Momentum gathering behind campaign to reduce egg sizes
- Tips on how to keep rats out during hen lockdown!
- Take a Break: Size does matter
- Winter dust baths for your hens
- The little hen that sparked a 96-mile fundraising trek
- Homes & Gardens: Keeping chickens – a guide to keeping hens in your backyard
- All I want for Christmas is… to help the hens!
- Derbyshire Times: Hen welfare charity thanks Derbyshire residents for saving 1,600 birds
- Can hens get zinc poisoning?
- The People's Friend: Healthy hens
- Vet Times: Student vets get hands-on with hens in need
- Student vets volunteer to get hands-on with chickens in need of new homes
- How ‘therapeutic’ pet hens help George with his autism
- Daily Mail: The posh henhouses that laid a £33million golden egg
- Nottingham Post: Chickens on death row help ease Nottingham prisoners back into society
- Grimsby Live: Woman's delight as her photogenic hen to appear in homes all over the country
- Lichfield Live: Lichfield man’s picture of pet hen wins a place in charity calendar
- Adopted hens help probation hostel residents to open up
- Woman’s Own: Our hens make our country life complete
- Trio tackle cramps, fatigue, and postponements to complete fundraising marathons
- Top 5 tips for making your run more fun this season
- Getting your hens to drink medicated water
- Gazette News: Pals take to the skies for fundraiser
- GOV UK: Poultry keepers – Act now to reduce your risk from bird flu this winter
- Portsmouth News: 200 caged hens saved from slaughter at Rowlands Castle get chance to spread their wings
- Church welcomes a whole new type of flock by becoming a hen adoption site
- Country Life: How keeping chickens boomed in the pandemic and the charity helping new keepers do it right
- News 18: UK NGO organises adoption day for chickens, saves them from slaughter
- Mirror: Race to save 50 hens from slaughter as charity says they're 'affectionate' pets
- Turning miles of exercise into money to help our hens
- Cooking The Books: Interview with Orlando Murrin, president of The Guild Of Food Writers, championing our size matters campaign
- Falkirk Herald: Banknock ‘jogfather’ set for marathon around Denny in aid of hen welfare
- Farming UK: Hen bone fractures caused by large eggs, study says
- In Your Area: West Wickham woman's marathon effort to help save hens from slaughter
- Helsingin Sanomat: Battery hens will have a new life as pets in british families: It is lovely to see a hen enjoying her first dust bath
- Veterinary Practice: BSAVA PetSavers partners with the British Hen Welfare Trust to offer new student grant
- BSAVA Petsavers Partners with the British Hen Welfare Trust to offer new student grant
- Looking out for lameness; the ins and outs of your hens' legs
- One woman’s journey from accidental chicken keeper to dedicated volunteer
- Product Spotlight: Our new cosy hen autumn bundle
- Bob Mortimer becomes hen charity’s newest patron
- Why we are pro probiotics
- East Anglian Daily Times: Hundreds of battery hens are rehomed - And you can still help too
- A beginner’s insight to a hen rehoming day
- A virtual marathon for a very real cause
- Product Spotlight: Little Feed Co launches two new products
- Is apple cider vinegar a natural way to good hen health?
- Hen charity leads the way in facilitating first research into pet chickens
- Thankfully amazing volunteers aren’t as rare as hens’ teeth
- How Far Would You Walk to Help Hens?
- Track and trace is also for hens
- BHWT says bonjour to new affiliation
- Our best-selling red mite treatment: Dergall
- What's french for cluck?
- Why is rehoming hens like cycling around the world?
- A tribute to Olive
- Red mites and everything you've ever wanted to know about Diatomaceous Earth
- Farmers Guide: British consumers urged to eat a range of egg sizes
- Good Food Magazine: The truth about eggs
- The Poultry Site: Size isn't the only concern why buying eggs
- Farming UK: Consumers urged to eat a wider range of egg sizes
- People's Friend: Eggs-periment
- Gardener turned fundraiser, Liz Ruddock, sells her prize veggies to raise money for the BHWT
- All in a day's work for team Berkeley in Gloucestershire
- Woman's Weekly: A chicken love story
- Daily Mail: It's cluckingham palace!
- The Telegraph: Forget lockdown – I’m celebrating the end of cluckdown
- South West Farmer: Large eggs bad for hen welfare and farmers says BHWT
- A hen's tale of hope
- Lucy Griffith spends a night in the bath for hen welfare fundraiser!
- From zero to a thousand; How many eggs can three hens lay?
- “Size Matters” our latest hen welfare awareness campaign is underway and gaining steam
- The Courier: Give a hen a home: Why you should consider adopting a feathered friend
- The Courier: Give a hen a home. Why you should consider adopting a feathered friend
- The Telegraph: The hen house and the big house: Prisoners see battery chickens as ‘kin’
- The Times: A beginner’s guide to keeping chickens like Harry and Meghan
- Does Size Matter? – Yes it does!
- In Conversation With: Jane Osgathorp
- An eggs-traordinary lockdown effort!
- Germany to be the first country to ban mass male chick culling
- Verm-X herbal support for hens
- Devon charity explains why hens are squawking more loudly
- DEFRA invites us to their conference on Avian Influenza: "What the spread of AI could look like for backyard birds"
- When Belinda met Pickle; A keeper to volunteer story
- Dr Jennie, Bradley Walsh and Four Bennett Sisters; What else could you want on a sunday night on ITV?
- Smallholder Range
- Around the BHWT: One Woman’s Journey to Save Lives… Including Her Own
- Volunteer of the month: Janet Mason
- Hen Spotlight: Ida, the Little Hen Who Could
- Ex-cage hens find free-range freedom in Cheshire
- Defra-aApproved Nettex virocur disinfectant here to help flocks stay safe from Avian Influenza this winter
- A Healthy Boredom Buster For Your Flock
- The Holistic Animal Therapist; Therapist by day, fundraiser by night
- Who's new at Hen Central? Verity takes the rehoming team by storm!
- Volunteer insights: Dan Mart!
- Volunteer of the month: Derek Rigler
- BHWT volunteer and driver Helen tells us all
- Fleurie: The dynamo hen
- Hen Hotel
- Charity of the month!
- Homemade flock seed block recipe
- From Anthony with love; The boy who wrote to his hen
- Rehoming Is Like a Box of Chocolates… You Never Know What You’re Going To Get!
- From Zero to 10,000! A Big Congrats Goes out to the Cheshire Rehoming Team!
- Volunteer of the Month: Cathy Reeves
- Who's New at Hen Central? "Smiley Kylie" Joins Our Fundraising Team!
- An Amazing Bit of Teamwork: We Saved 900 Hens from Slaughter & Found Them Homes in under 24 Hours!
- In Conversation With: Dr Jane Goodall DBE;
- From zero to ten thousand - Cheshire team rehomes it’s 10,000th hen
- It rained on Jane’s parade but winning a Woman & Home Award can’t dampen our spirits
- October rehoming round-up: Making in-roads for hen rehomings with new free range farms
- Covid-19 impacts donations for hen rehomings and hen welfare
- Special delivery to professor Ben Garrod's community project in Bristol
- Poorly Carers and Foster Homes Needed
- BHWT Devon volunteer rehoming team hits 500th rehoming day
- Fundraising Focus: Making some ‘buck, buck, bucks’ for BHWT!
- Product Spotlight: Dengie Fresh Bed for Chickens
- Beware! Red Kites!
- Featured Product | Verm-X
- Do You Have a Young Chicken Keeper in Your Flock Who Loves Photography? If So, You Could Win a £600 Voucher!
- August 2020 sees over 225% increase in rehomings
- Making Birthdays Even More Meaningful Gets a Big Thumbs Up
- Life behind bars
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- Loo rolls, eggs & COVID-19
- A Smarter and Greener Way to Store Your Hen's Eggs!
- Rehoming days are safer thanks to grant from Support Adoption for Pets!
- Eggs are back on the supermarket shelves, and ex-bats are on their way!
- Community Spirit!
- The Eggs Factor
- Caring for hens in schools during the COVID-19 outbreak
- Hen rehomings during the COVID-19 outbreak
- In Conversation With: Sophie Allport
- Eggs: brown vs. white
- Charities launch new lovebirds matchmaking partnership in time for Valentine’s Day
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- In Conversation With: Harbour & Jones
- And off flies our 750,000th hen
- Avian flu found on commercial farm in Mid Suffolk
- How many eggs is too many?
- Sainsbury's commits to free-range eggs
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- British Hen Welfare Trust named JustGiving Charity of the Year 2018
- British Hen Welfare Trust collaborates with cross-government parties Including DEFRA
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