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Chickens

Low maintenance and high yielding, this chicken gift will produce eggs and chicks, helping to provide families with income for essentials.

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Give chickens and training to look after them and you're helping a family feed, thrive and survive. Low maintenance and high yielding, these vaccinated little cluckers produce eggs, and chicks for rearing into other chickens, helping to provide families with income to pay for essentials.

You can choose an alternative occasion image for the front cover image of your gift card at checkout.

This gift supports our livestock (LS) projects.

Delivery & returns

All gifts are sent by 1st class post within 3 working days of when you place your order.  An optional delivery contribution of £1.70  per order for deliveries within the UK will be suggested during checkout, to help us cover costs. You can pay the suggested amount, increase or decrease your contribution, or pay nothing at all. You choose.

If you're in a hurry you can also send a gift E-card, at no extra cost, which will be sent as soon as you place your order. 

Please note that Oxfam Unwrapped gifts count as a donation, so our no quibble returns policy does not apply, and under Charity Commission rules, we are unable to give you a refund.

You can find out more about delivery and returns in our help section.

Giving this gift

When you buy an Oxfam Unwrapped gift you can be confident that the real gift will be sent to where it's needed most.   

We will send you (or your friend or family member if you prefer) a gift card that tells them what they've been bought and how it will help to improve someone's life.  You can add little extras during checkout, which are posted at the same time.

You'll be given the opportunity to customise your gift card or E-card during checkout and specify your delivery details. 


Chickens

This gift in action

Food security used to be a big issue for people in Cap Rouge and La Montagne, Haiti. Now Madame Ulrick Avril keeps herself out of poverty by playing chicken. In 2008 Oxfam Unwrapped bought 300 laying hens to establish a chicken colony – meaning plenty of nest eggs for the ‘plucky’ local people. As well as the chickens, we funded feed, hen houses, water troughs, veterinary services, drugs and treatment, plus training for the whole community in managing and maintaining their animals, all backed up with a campaign to raise awareness about food security and nutrition. The project will help vulnerable people in these communities to develop sustainable livelihoods, with the bonus of supporting the wider community by strengthening local organisations, and increasing the production of food locally. It’s amazing what you can get out of a chicken, isn’t it?

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