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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 in the evenings from 6.30pm to 8pm. We are closed during the day from Mondays to Fridays.

On Saturdays we are open from 11am to 6pm.

We are closed on SUNDAYS and BANK HOLIDAYS.

Boarding in and out is between 6.30 and 8pm each weekday evening and 11am to 6pm on Saturdays.

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 £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.

Incubators for Sale

We have ex-hire Smart incubators and ex hire RCOms for sale. They are fully automatic and are in good working order. They are £100 each.

W6MUM


I am selling my number plate, which is on retention, and hope that it finds another Mum who will love it as much as I did! It is £999 and is great value. It is listed on a number plate website for £1,650 and the difference is their commission.

Contact me by email if you are interested, contact details at the bottom of the page.

Brooders for Sale

We have ex-hire Brooders for sale. They are in good working order and take up to 6 chicks comfortably. They are £30 each.

Testimonials

29th Sep 2009

Hi Alison

Just wanted to thank you for an excellent course on Sunday.

I have learnt so much, and the chance to handle the chickens and have a go at wing clipping which can be nerve-wrecking for a first timer has instilled so much more confidence.

I can't now wait to own some chickens for myself and look forward to dealing with you again in the future.

Any aspiring chicken keeper should attend this course!

Best wishes for your ongoing success.

Please feel free to use this testimonial.

Kind Regards

Samantha Tanner

Chicken Keeper Book

Chicken Keeping is a joy. You will have a constant supply of the most yummy eggs you have ever had and the fun of watching your hen’s personalities develop as they go about their day, chatting to each other whilst looking for tasty morsels in the ground. I want to encourage every one who is considering keeping a few chickens in the garden to take the plunge and go for it. You will be amazed at how friendly and tame the chickens become and how much fun they are to have around.

I originally wrote this book to accompany the Chicken Keeper courses I run, but it has now grown to a point where it has become a book in its own right and I hope it will both inspire you to order your hen house now and reassure you that you will be able to cope with all eventualities in this most rewarding of hobbies.

The book is £9.50 with free P&P or collect from Hook Farm for Alison to personalise it to you. If ordering for postage, please send a cheque, payable to Hook Farm, to Hook Farm, London Rd, Hook RG27 9EQ.

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About Incubator Hire

We have an exciting incubator hire service. You can have the magic of watching chicks hatch at school, nursery or 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!

Schools and Nurseries have the choice of hiring a high visibility, fully automatic incubator for the full 3 weeks with chicks set to hatch on a school day, or, for smaller children, just have the incubator the last week when the chicks are due to hatch.

We have found that the residents in care and residential homes love the experience of watching chicks hatch. It is a real community activity with residents sharing stories of keeping chickens as children as well as sharing the exciting news as the chickens struggle out of their shells.

For schools, nurseries and care homes we provide the fertile eggs and colllect the chicks when we collect the incubator, so there are no problems with having to find homes for the chicks.

Whichever hire service you choose, watching a chick hatch is pure magic!

We also have purely practical incubators for those who do not need high visibility, but need an incubator in an emergency because theirs has broken down with eggs in it, or a broody is no longer available.

Click on the hire options on the left hand side to find the right one for you.

Watch a chick hatching