Contact Hook Farm

Hook Farm
London Road
Hook, Hampshire
RG27 9EQ

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Incubator Hire

We have an exciting incubator hire service. You can have the magic of watching chicks hatch at home with our high visibility, fully automatic incubators. The day of hatching can be arranged to suit, so why not plan a birthday surprise!

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Opening Hours

We are open weekdays from 6pm to dusk. On Mondays and Fridays we are open mornings from 10am to 1pm. We are closed all day on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

At weekends we are open from 10am to dusk both days.

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

Learn Humane Culling Technique

Alison is a DEFRA registered poultry slaughter woman and we run courses to teach you how to humanely kill a chicken. It could be because the chicken is injured, an unwanted cockerel, or a chicken destined to be the next meal.

You will be taught to kill a chicken quickly and humanely in a way that you will be able to use easily at home.

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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 no cost to the new owner. 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.

Courses

Testimonials

17th Nov 2009

Alison, just a note to say thank you very much for your pluck and gut course today.

I feel a lot more comfortable about despatching in the future, and as I have 16 boys to do within the next month, it has made me more confident on all aspects of killing and preparation for the table.

A great 3 hours, very informative and beneficial to me.

Kind Regards

Sarah Killick

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Courses and Events

The Chicken Keeper Course is aimed at anyone wanting to keep chickens for the first time and will give you the confidence to start on a very rewarding hobby. With simple and thoughtful care your chickens will be a pleasure to keep, with the wonderful bonus of all those delicious eggs. Even if you have kept some hens for a while you will also benefit from the course as it provides helpful tips on making hen keeping easier and answers to those questions which inevitably crop up. The objective of the course is to provide you with all the information you need to keep your chickens happy and healthy.

For those who have had hens for a little while and want to know more about chickens in more depth we have the Advanced Chicken Keeper Course.

During the school holidays we run Children's Chicken Keeper Courses to encourage children to keep chickens and enjoy cooking with their own fresh eggs.

We also run Kill, Pluck, Gut and Bone courses, which are very hands on and much better than the very descriptive title sounds. If you are considering keeping meat chickens, then this course is a must. You will take home two chickens, one of which you will have boned ready to stuff and roll. Remember to plan your stuffing for a really special meal. The other chicken will be plucked ready for you to gut at home to reinforce what you have learnt.

All the course and event details are on the links on the left hand side and the course dates will be found by clicking on the Course Dates tab above.