Ex-battery hens rescued and re-homed
On Sunday 18th July, Richard and Adam helped out with the first battery hen rescue and re homing carried out by the British Hen Welfare Trust’s, Yorkshire volunteers. It all sounds a little underhand but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
The British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT) is a charitable organisation whose aim is not only to rescue and re-home hens when a poultry house is depopulated but they are also involved with educating consumers, retailers and food processors alike, of the desirability to use free range eggs. A noticeable success has been Hellman’s decision to source only free range eggs for making it’s mayonnaise
Richard’s wife has recently been appointed as Yorkshire coordinator for the group and last Sunday, their first rescue was carried out. A farm on the Derbyshire-Yorkshire border was having a clear out of some battery hens which had come to the end of their commercially productive life, ready to clean down and disinfect the poultry house, before re stocking. A small team of volunteers met at the poultry farm, with the farmers full permission and collected nearly 200 bewildered hens from the battery cages. They were brought back to Richard’s farm where they were carefully unloaded and placed into a holding pen. For all of the birds, this was to be the first time they could take a few steps, spread their wings and actually walk on a solid, straw bedded floor, rather than feel the cold harsh cage floor they had been used to for the last 18 months.
Throughout the day, people who had previously registered and been successfully vetted by the BHWT, turned up at the farm at their pre-arranged time slots, armed with boxes of all shapes and sizes, to collect the hens and whisk them away to a new free ranging life. At this point, a Paperwise archive box and some paper shredding to put inside, proved a very useful way for many to transport their hens home.
You may think it a drop in the ocean, to save 200 birds from a flock of thousands but it is still 200 birds given a whole new lease of life. The warm hearted people who came to collect the ex-batts, who shed many a tear at the sight of the rescuees, made the whole experience and effort, worthwhile.
If If you’re thinking of joining in with one of the fastest growing hobbies in the Uk and are looking to keep your own hens, don’t dismiss taking on some ex-batts in favour of some ‘posh birds’. To see a poorly feathered, weak legged battery hen develop into a plump, fully clothed bird, confidently strutting her stuff around the garden, can truly be a most rewarding experience.
Ronda is hoping that demand for the Ex-batts will grow and grow as word gets around so it may not be many more rescues before the Paperwise delivery van will be drafted in to help with transporting a greater number of hens back to the farm ready for their new start in life.
New Cost Effective Document Storage Solutions York
An enquiry this week from a current client brought to my attention how cost effective our service really is. The client is currently with a local self storage company, occupying a unit to full capacity and paying £156 a month for the pleasure.
secure document storage york
After a brief consultation, we informed them we can store their boxes for half this cost giving a saving of just under £900 a year. How are we able do this?
Our clients need only pay for the boxes that are stored on the shelf in the secure document store and not for whole self store unit. There is also the added benefit of our full retrieval service so they need not worry about fighting the city traffic when they need to get access to any document.
If you think you are paying too much for storing your documents, we can help you. Call Adam on 01347 879142 or email info@paperwise.co.uk
Welcome to our new website!
Hello all, and a very warm welcome Paperwise’s shiny brand new website!
We wanted a wesbite that really reflects what we do at Paperwise, and what our services are – yes, the website looks and feels great, but the most important thing is that it does what it says on the box, as it were, by clearly explaining to customers new and old what Paperwise does and how it goes about doing it.
So, if it’s Confidential Storage you want for those all-important documents that you don’t have the space to store or the security in place to make sure they stay secure, then you’ll find out all you need to know on the Confidential Storage page.
Likewise, if you want to make sure that you don’t become a victim of identity fraud by making sure that your confidential documents and files are destroyed in strict confidence quickly and efficiently, then visit our Confidential Shredding page, and visit our Recycling page if you’d like to recycle your non-confidential paper or other data in a way that is extremely cost-effective when combined with our storage and retrieval and confidential destruction service.
Once you’ve had a good look through all these pages and are satisfied that we are the data storage and destruction provider for you – and we’re confident we will be – then fill in the Quote Request form on the right-hand side of each of our pages or give us a call on 01347 879 142.
We look forward to doing business with you now or in the future.
All the best from Adam, Rich and all the Paperwise team.
P.S. A big thank you to all the team at Intune Media for designing and building our new website!
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