The Wonderful Experience of Re-Homing Commercial Hens with Jane Howorth MBE - Episode 62

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We’ve covered the joys of looking after feathered friends on the podcast before, but what’s lovely about this week’s guest is that she’s shined a light on adopting ex-commercial hens as our coop-companions. Founding the British Hen Welfare Trust in 2005, Jane Howorth has earned an MBE of her services to hens, and joins us to share the inspiring initiatives the trust has created, why former battery hens are a lovely pet to adopt, and how to keep them healthy & happy. In this episode, disco...

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0:00.0	You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the, Arthur Parkinson and my good friend, Sarah Raven.
0:26.3	This week Sarah is with me and I am joined by a guest. She's an absolute heroine of the British
0:32.9	ex-commercial hen, Jane Harworth of the British Henn Trust, and she founded this trust quite a few years
0:42.0	ago now, before battery hen rehoming became something of a quite trend-setting thing to do if you
0:49.4	want to start keeping chickens. And today, the Hemp Welfare Trust has rehoming days all over the country of
0:57.0	birds that are from ex-commercial enriched cages, so they're indoor birds, and also birds from
1:04.5	free range farms. So it's all about encouraging people to give homes to hens that have reached the end of their commercial
1:12.5	lives but will go on laying lovely eggs in people's gardens and small holdings for years
1:18.0	afterwards and these hens make very friendly and lovely chickens to have in your lives so i'm
1:24.1	really excited to talk to jane today about her life and how she has helped.
1:29.3	Thousands, if not millions of hens, have a happy retirement.
1:38.9	Hello, Jane. How are you?
1:41.6	Okay, thank you. Yeah, on this drizzly Monday afternoon. Yeah, you're in Devon, aren't you? I'm okay, thank you. Yeah, on this drizzly Monday afternoon.
1:45.5	Yeah, you're in Devon, aren't you?
1:48.1	I am in Devon.
1:49.2	It's dreary Devon today, unfortunately.
1:51.1	But yeah, I am in Devon.
1:52.3	It's a beautiful part of the country.
1:53.8	I'm very happy to be here.
1:56.5	So when did your life with chicken start?
2:00.5	It depends how far back you want to go.
2:02.5	It started when I was probably, well, 19 actually.
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