Contact Hook Farm

Hook Farm
London Road
Hook, Hampshire
RG27 9EQ

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Opening Hours

We are open weekdays in the evenings from 6.30pm to dusk. We are closed during the day from Mondays to Fridays.

At weekends we are open from 10.30am to dusk both days.

Boarding in and out is after 6.30 each weekday evening and after 11am at weekends.

Rehomes

We know that circumstances change and from time to time we get rehome chickens in. Our policy is to take hens in free and we rehome them at £5 to the new owner to cover their keep here. Unfortunately we get an overriding number of cockerels, and whilst we don't charge the new owners for them, they are usually here for a long time. We therefore charge £5 to take in a cockerel to cover our costs.

Contact us from the tab below if you are interested in taking some rehome hens or a cockerel for free, or need to find a new home for your hens.

Chickenalia

By popular demand we now have a dedicated site to all the wonderful things chicken related. You can browse and order online and pay with Paypal, or shop at the farm when you come over.

Click on the link to go to the Chickenalia site and see what we have for you! Chickenalia

Weaners available in September

We have Gloucester Old Spot piglings born on 1 July. Our piglings are weaned at 8 weeks and are then ready to go to their new homes. At 8 weeks old they are £50.

Contact us by email to alison@spottypiggies.co.uk or from the Contact button at the bottom of the page to reserve them. They are popular, so reserving one (or two or three) is best if you can.

Testimonials

29th Sep 2009

Dear Alison,

Your book has been invaluable - I just read it and made a list of what we needed and could buy what we needed with confidence. So I just wanted to say a big thank you for opening up our world to chickens!

Sheridan Edwards

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About Me

I am Alison Wilson and I have been keeping chickens since 2002. I started with three hens and the magic of that first egg is what inspires me to spread the word and encourage everyone to keep a few hens, just for those fabulous eggs. The fact that they are fabulous pets as well is a bonus!

I had no experience with chickens and knew no-one else with any, so my initial experience was 'hands on' and what I could gather from a book. My flock of three were planned to have the run of the garden with a free standing house in a corner, but that lasted a week. A riot from my family resulted in a hen pen being built down the long fence of the garden, so that hens had the run of the bushes down the side and left the main lawn for the children to play on, once it was returned to its former chicken poo free state.

As so often happens, and you will smile as you read this, my flock mysteriously expanded from 3 to 11 over time. As I came across chickens for sale another 2 would appear in a box in the car and suddenly appear in the pen a little later. At least that is what I told my husband. I just couldn't resist buying new chickens; chicken keeping became addictive. I also started reading as much as I could and found that there wasn't a completely comprehensive book, so had to pick up bits and pieces as I found them.

In 2005 we moved to Hook Farm and moved the chickens with us. Our new neighbours gave us four building site fencing panels to house the chickens until we could build a pen for them and the fencing panels worked so well that we have used them for the hen pens ever since. Word spread that we had chickens and I started to be asked if I sold them. So I ordered some in and I haven't looked back. From buying the hybrids in batches of 10 at a time, I now get them in in batches of 100 at a time.

I was, and still am, selling chickens to first timers, just as I had been once, so I started putting together Information Sheets to give to customers who bought chickens. As I sold more chickens my husband suggested starting Chicken Keeping courses, which I duly started in 2006. They are a huge success and I enjoy the interaction with the delegates who come on the courses. The numbers are limited to 6 on a course to ensure personal attention, but also to allow the interaction as we bounce ideas around and deal with some urban legends to do with fox deterants.

The Information Sheets were very well received and so I have done a lot of research as well as recording practical solutions to common problems. I am a keen photographer and keep a camera in my farm coat pocket to record events as they happen. I have combined my research, my practical experience and my photographs into a book, Chicken Keeper, which I am very excited about and which has now been published. I am passionate about chickens and about passing on as much information as possible, so I have put the Information Sheets on the website under Support and will add more over time.

I love meeting people and discussing chickens, so I really hope to meet you soon.

Best wishes, Alison