Fowlty towers: Luxury five-star hotel for chickens opens in Kent

Metro [UK] ^ | 9/28/12 | Mark Molloy

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An egg-centric hotelier has turned her passion for poultry into a business after opening up a luxury five-star hotel for chickens.

Julie Smith decided to open the guesthouse for hens due to the huge demand for the service in her rural Kent community.

She was inspired to create the hen hotel, named Fowlty Towers, after being regularly asked to look after her friends feathered pets while they were on holiday.

'A lot of people asked what they would do when they went on holiday with the hens,' explained Ms Smith, who has 13 hens of her own.

'So I started looking after them as a favour and then I thought well it might be a bit of a business and we'll try and get them sorted.'

Free from their chicken coops, the feathered birds can relax in five-star accommodation or roam free in the hotel's fox-proof garden.

The birds are also taken for walks and on trips to the local village pub.

She added: 'Of course the best place for any animal including hens would be in their own home, that's what they're used to, but I try and offer them service where they get as good as home.

'I think that they bring them to me because I give them individual attention, as I say they are pets so I care a lot about them.'

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No choking allowed!

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Western civilization is doomed.

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I say! Very good! Carry on, Brits!

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When you’re going to h*ll in a bucket, at least you can enjoy the ride.

[W/apologies to Jerry Garcia.]

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I trained a chicken once. She was always in a harness and would lead the way on walks.
She had character and the bonus was that she laid unusually big colored eggs.
People tried to tell me it was duck, bah, what do they know.

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Mine are happy with their Skid Row accommodations, and being fed & watered daily. If they aren’t, I tell them the alternative is a stew pot.

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OK. Now we've gone too far.

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Where the heck to you get your large collection of zany pictures? You always seem to be able to pull the perfect one out of your portfolio.

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Wha? R U trying to start come kind of a Chicken coup?

And what R U doing up at this hour?

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LOL I get up and browse the Web in the middle of the night and then go to sleep so that I can be late the next day!

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Tip-tip, cherrio, and so forth.

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They won’t keep the five star rating for long. All of the rooms have a fowl smell...

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