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Welcome to Mother Hens Poultry
Healthy chickens, bantams, waterfowl,
rare breeds and hatching eggs for
backyard keepers and experienced breeders.
We are a small, family poultry business near Pangbourne in Reading, Berkshire, with a long history in helping people keep healthy, happy birds.
We supply hybrid pullets ready for laying alongside pure breed chickens, ducks, geese and guinea fowl, with straightforward advice to help customers choose birds that are right for their flock.
Mother Hen’s Poultry also stocks practical poultry essentials, including feeders, drinkers, feed, grit, poultry supplies and health care products, making it easier to find the everyday items needed to care for your birds.
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Our purpose
Our aim is to help poultry keepers across Berkshire and the UK find healthy birds, hatching eggs and practical poultry supplies with friendly, experienced guidance. From our base near Pangbourne in Reading, we welcome new keepers, families, smallholders and experienced breeders looking for poultry suited to their home and flock.
We value good husbandry, careful bird selection and straightforward advice. Whether you are looking for chickens, bantams, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, point of lay hens or hatching eggs in the UK, we want every visit to Mother Hens Poultry to feel personal, useful and dependable.
Learn More About Us →Welcome to the Mother Hens Poultry shop, where you can explore healthy poultry, hatching eggs and practical supplies for keepers across the UK. Browse our current ranges, discover breeds suited to homes, gardens and smallholdings, and find clear product information to help you choose with confidence.
Find healthy chickens for homes, gardens and smallholdings, with laying hens, chicks and traditional breeds offered as availability allows. Explore the current range, compare breeds and choose birds suited to your flock and poultry keeping plans.
Explore our distinctive game birds and speciality poultry for experienced keepers, breeders and smallholdings. Browse the current selection for breed details, availability and practical information to help you choose with confidence.
Discover guinea fowl for farms, gardens and smallholdings across the UK. Browse available colours and age groups, learn more about these active and characterful birds, and check the latest availability before ordering.
Start your next hatch with hatching eggs from selected poultry breeds when available. Explore our current selection for home incubation, compare breeds and read the individual listings for useful information before placing your order.
Explore our distinctive game birds and speciality poultry for experienced keepers, breeders and smallholdings. Browse the current selection for breed details, availability and practical information to help you choose with confidence.
Keep your flock well cared for with practical poultry supplies for everyday use. Browse feeders, drinkers, health products and useful equipment selected to support poultry keepers from first set up through to established flock care.
Explore our turkey range for homes, farms and smallholdings, including poults and started birds when available. Check the current listings for breed information, availability and everything you need to choose suitable birds.
Browse ducks, geese and other waterfowl for UK homes and smallholdings. Explore available breeds, learn what may suit your space and flock, and check individual listings for current availability and product information.
Availability can change throughout the season. Products marked in stock in the shop are currently available to order; unavailable birds remain easy to identify.
2014 marked an important chapter in the journey of Mother Hen’s Poultry. By this time, our passion for poultry keeping had developed into a family poultry business serving customers in Berkshire and surrounding areas.
Our DEFRA registration in 2014 reflected our commitment to responsible poultry keeping, good husbandry and the health and welfare of the birds in our care. These principles have remained an important part of the way Mother Hen’s Poultry approaches poultry keeping and customer service.
From chickens and hatching eggs to traditional and rare breeds, our focus has always been on helping poultry keepers find healthy birds alongside friendly, practical advice.
Our passion is keeping and breeding quality poultry for homes, gardens and smallholdings. Over the years, Mother Hen’s Poultry has worked with both new and experienced keepers, with an emphasis on healthy birds, good husbandry and practical advice.
We have experience with pure breed and traditional poultry as well as dependable laying birds. When selecting breeding stock, our priority is strong, healthy birds with the characteristics expected of their breed. We believe good poultry should be enjoyable to keep, whether your interest is fresh eggs, breeding, showing or simply having birds around the garden.
Our background in poultry keeping, farming and bird care means customers can ask questions before choosing their birds. We would rather help you find poultry suited to your circumstances than simply make a sale.
Keeping poultry can be straightforward and rewarding when birds have the right housing, feed, space and daily care. Mother Hen’s Poultry aims to help customers understand the essentials, from choosing suitable housing and feeders to establishing sensible routines for feeding, cleaning and general health.
Our website is being rebuilt with practical information drawn from many years of keeping poultry. As the advice library grows, it will cover subjects such as housing, feeding, rearing young birds, incubation, biosecurity and everyday poultry care.
Hatching and rearing poultry has long been part of Mother Hen’s Poultry. Where available, information about hatching eggs and young birds will be shown clearly on the website, together with practical guidance for incubation and early care.
Availability varies through the year and between breeding groups, so current stock should always be checked before making plans. If you are unsure whether hatching eggs or young poultry are suitable for you, please contact us and we will be happy to offer straightforward advice.
Plan your poultry order
Chick and poultry availability naturally changes through the year. Different breeds and species have different hatch periods, so the best time to reserve birds depends on what you are looking for and our current breeding schedule.
Our seasonal guide helps UK poultry keepers plan ahead for chicks, bantams, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, quail, point of lay hens and other poultry. Hatching eggs and young birds are offered when available, with current stock shown in the shop.
Use the months as a planning guide, then browse our poultry for sale in the UK, chicks for sale and hatching eggs to see what is currently available from Mother Hen’s Poultry.
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