- May 10, 2014
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Hello, Pleased to make your aquantance & Thanks for letting us join your site, My name is lee My wife is vonny We live in the middle of Devon... We have a small house & a small back garden that we have just finished making over including building a chicken coup that is just waiting for some beautiful hens.. I am not keeping my hens for meat just for the love and for any eggs if we are lucky enough, We moved to Devon from London nearly 3 years ago where we kept 6 rescued chickens for a couple of years, We loved them dearly & always had plenty of fresh eggs, we stopped keeping chickens about a year before we moved due to a terrible fox attack that wiped all our hens out, At that time They had a large strong airy coup that they enjoyed during the evening & winter times During the day they had a high sided mesh day run just to give them more freedom but unfortunately the day run was not meant for night time & somebody forgot to put the girls away and sadly a fox got in & killed them all, we were mortified as they were more than just chickens. Anyways 4 years have past & now the new garden is finished the coup is built & we cant wait to find some fine hens to keep again, I am a carpenter with disabilities But have built the smallish coup with warmth, natural light good strength & as much usable floor space & branches for the hens as possible & Although we have some limited knowledge of keeping hens We in no way Know enough, so I hope to make a friends that can advise with any advice that have... I have been offered some 18mth orpingtons But although I have heard of them I do not know how hardy or easy to keep they are ect.. Will post some pics of the coup as soon as I learn how to... thanks for reading this, be lucky Lee & vonny x
and Welcome To BYC! sumi gave you some great links to check out the Orpingtons. Sorry about the hens you lost to the foxes. Sounds like you have put together a really nice coop/run project, here is a link for putting up pictures 
