Katriona Shovlin speaks about her hen hotel

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00:00 Everybody kind of walks along, they walk their dogs, their children come home from school.

00:04 And yeah, they just love buying the eggs. And that's how I'm referred to as the chicken lady

00:10 or the egg lady, whichever one comes first, who knows? A lot of people have chickens as pets.

00:20 You would always associate it with farms or farmyards. And as rescues are becoming more and

00:28 more popular, obviously it's nice to see that more people are having chickens and ducks as pets.

00:36 So I offer an all-inclusive hotel stay. So that includes food, depending on what food they're on,

00:44 an afternoon treat of corn. It includes all the bedding, everything that they need really to be

00:52 happy and safe away from home. I like to go away and I thought to myself, who's going to look after

01:01 my chickens? Who do I trust? And a friend started doing it for me. But I thought to myself that

01:07 there's obviously a gap in the market somewhere as chickens are becoming more and more popular as

01:13 pets. So I thought of hen halls, which is like kennels, but for hens. So here I am. I think if you

01:23 look at chickens or you spend time with the chicken, they are very endearing and they're

01:31 quirky. They've all got characters the same as a cat or a dog or a goat or whatever you might have.

01:40 So they're very addicting. I think that, I don't know, I think it's just catchy. People

01:45 will fall in love with them.