A student's posted an update on Facebook advertising 10,000 chickens for sale. Ellie Seels, 18, put up the ad, which was shared more than 3,000 times. Unfortunately the sale has now ended, and - brace ...

They've led happy lives and helped put eggs on breakfast tables across the country – but now 12,000 free-range hens destined for slaughter tomorrow have been given the chance of a last-minute rescue.

The owners of Happy Hens are asking the public to help find new homes for their 5,000 egg-laying chickens before they close their farm for good. Beryl and Roger Hosking were plunged into debt after ...

About 10,000 live chickens have been put up for sale to the public to stop them from being slaughtered. Babthorpe Hall Farm, near Selby in North Yorkshire, said the free-range hens had come to the end ...

Third generation egg rancher Luie Nevarez and his wife Chloe are committed to pasture raising their flock of 7,500 chickens, letting them run free across their farm in Ramona to improve egg quality.