Hen Day!!!!!
My collecting time was 1pm and my mum and I set off for Hatfield at midday.
Unfortunately when we got there we found out there had been a delay and the hens wouldn't be arriving until 3pm at the earliest. The hens were coming from a farm in Leicestershire and it obviously took longer than expected.
We decided to do some shopping so drove back to Potters Bar, where the only supermarket location I know is, unfortunately, Tesco. (I have not willingly shopped in Tesco after the way they treated Hugh Fernley Whittingstall over the Tesco AGM incident)
We had a coffee, did some shopping and sat in the car reading the paper until 3pm. I called Deborah (the Hen Rehomers UK coordinator) and she said they were on their way and should be there at about 3.30ish.
We drove back to her stables and found the field/carpark full of people all waiting to collect their hens.
The van with hens arrived at about 3.45 and they were all unloaded from crates and let out into the (empty) stables. We then had to take our baskets or boxes and the helpers put our hens in.
Then it was just a case of getting them into the car (thick plastic sheet on the back seat with 3 hens in 2 cat baskets and my Mum keeping them company).
We set off to their new home.
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