{"id":1669,"date":"2026-05-12T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:29:09","slug":"hens-adopted-by-the-sanctuary-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/?p=1669","title":{"rendered":"Hens adopted by The Sanctuary Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

13 new rescue hens from the British Hen Welfare Trust <\/a>join our existing pair. They are settling in and it will take a while before they get used to freedom and the outside world. They should also be back to laying eggs soon as the move is rather stressful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re feeding them organic henfood, it’s good for them and makes the eggs taste great. It does cost \u00a327 a bag compared to the standard feed which is less than \u00a315.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their henrun is great for chickens but no so good for people, to get in and out. We’re looking for funding to get a new hen house<\/a>. These houses have roll-away nesting boxes so the hens have difficulty eating their own eggs. It’s a real problem, at one point I had about 40 hens and was collecting about 5 eggs a day instead of 35… These henhouses are also much easier to clean and maintain, stand up in and just generally better designed. The current hen house was built in a rush because a storm trashed the previous houses, no hens were hurt, just a little bit wet and unhappy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Hens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Storm Damage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inside existing hen house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Existing hen house and run<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

13 new rescue hens from the British Hen Welfare Trust join our existing pair. They are settling in and it will take a while before they get used to freedom and the outside world. They should also be back to laying eggs soon as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}