About this listing

Ruffles Hen Hotel offers a home-from-home eggs-perience for your feathered friends on the edge of the small village of Kingsdon, Somerset and can offer your hens, along with their chap if they have one, the ultimate Bed and Breakfast egg-scape to the country.

If you have a holiday booked, but are still unsure the best option for ensuring continuity of care for your chickens we offer your hens their own dedicated Eglu coop with securely fenced grass run at our home.

This listing is for “Rory’s Retreat” which is a Purple Eglu Cube (Mark 1 if that means anything to you!) with a good sized custom-built walk-in run for your hens to enjoy safe outside time.

Rory’s Retreat can cater for up to 12 bantams, or 8-10 regular sized hens.

Bex runs her hotel with great attention to detail, ensuring that there is plenty of fresh food and water available at all times. She’s got years of chicken keeping experience and really loves to hear them “chuckling” around their run. She keeps 5 hens herself, with plans to increase her own flock in due course.

Cleaning practices

• Before your hens visit and at the end of their stay, hotel quarters are jet washed and disinfected to ensure it is 100% clean and sanitised for your ladies.
• Your hens personal "chambermaid" will ensure that their sleeping accommodation is kept in tip-top sparkly clean condition during their stay.
• In addition to topping up bedding Nettex ground sanitiser is used to keep it fresh.
• The Silver Service waitressing ensures that your hens will never want for food or water. As standard all our guests are offered mixed corn and Smallholders soya-free layers pellets. They will also be able to access the free entertainments provided by the local ant population. If your hens have different or additional tastes please ensure you provide us with their personal delicacies so that they get that "home-from-home" eggs-perience.
• Your hens will have access to a weld-mesh enclosed run which includes a full roof to provide both shade and protection from the worst of the elements and to prevent the local hawk population trying their luck.
• The run is sited on old railway platform slabs to provide protection from Roland and cronies as much as possible.
• We ensure that enrichment is provided in the form of additional fresh greens, litter (Aubiose hemp bedding) for scratching in and a climbing frame for daytime snoozing.
• With security being of utmost importance, all hens are shut into their hotels at night to further reduce any chances of any losses.
• When it comes to your hens health, if your hens have specific health needs please ensure we are aware of these and any treatment regimes you need us to maintain during their stay.
• Please note, if there is a "flockdown" in place we may be unable to have your hens to stay but would still be able to offer a visiting service with good biosecurity measures observed.
• Our runs are flockdown-ready so should one be announced while your hens are staying they will be cared for properly and according to Defra/APHA guidelines.