- Aug 1, 2009
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Hi. my name is Nigel, Nige to most people and my wife and I live in Norfolk in the east of England. We own a Post Office in a rural village and are just starting out with chickens. We have a hen house and intend our chickens to free range in the garden. We have a cat called Lolly who is going to get on fine with the chooks when we get them.
I like the look of the Buff Orpingtons or some of the Sussex breed. They look like 'proper' chickens if you know what I mean. However, what I really need to know is whether or not some chickens scratch the ground up a lot less than others. Though we want the chooks to have free range over all the garden we would rather they didn't completely destroy the grass so if some breeds were less prone to turning grass into dust they would be preferable. What I really want to hear is that Buff Orpingtons fit the bill
Within our Post Office we are moving into poultry supplies as there are a number of people in the village who keep hens, many of them rescued from battery farms. We have sold bird seed for a long time and when we were asked if we sold chicken feed we said Yes and contacted our feed supplier; It has just gone on from there to the point where we thought we might as well keep chooks of our own so we would have experience to let us help our customers more.
Nige
I like the look of the Buff Orpingtons or some of the Sussex breed. They look like 'proper' chickens if you know what I mean. However, what I really need to know is whether or not some chickens scratch the ground up a lot less than others. Though we want the chooks to have free range over all the garden we would rather they didn't completely destroy the grass so if some breeds were less prone to turning grass into dust they would be preferable. What I really want to hear is that Buff Orpingtons fit the bill
Within our Post Office we are moving into poultry supplies as there are a number of people in the village who keep hens, many of them rescued from battery farms. We have sold bird seed for a long time and when we were asked if we sold chicken feed we said Yes and contacted our feed supplier; It has just gone on from there to the point where we thought we might as well keep chooks of our own so we would have experience to let us help our customers more.
Nige
