Total Newbie looking for some basic advice

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Lybsterharbour said:
Hi,
My wife and I have just retired and moved to a most beautiful house in the far north of Scotland. We have decided to keep chickens for pets/eggs.
I have an area in our garden that was originally used for ponies. I have cleared an area approx 10 yards by 4 yards that was basically covered in weeds.
The ground is very good , plenty of worms etc but it is now just soil. I want to sow grass if that is the best for the chickens. I have just purchased an Omlet Chicken Coop that's states it can house up to 10 Chickens. With the size of the land I would like to keep max 6 free range chickens.
We are not total newbies to bird keeping as we kept parrots and ran a parrot boarding service for 10 years. However I understand that keeping Chickens is different.

What I would like to know is:

We are in Scotland so

1. What is the best grass/ground for Chickens
2. What is the best quality premium food we can give them
3. We want good egg layers but without sounding shallow , we want GOOD looking Chickens as well :) What types would you recommend.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post and hopefully it won't be my last.
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Welcome, i have yet to find any grass, or even ground cover that a chicken won't have down to bare earth in a couple of weeks. Enjoy your hens. I call mine pets that give me eggs. Once more welcome to back yard chickens. I live in Port Orchard, WA, U.S.A. I raise Novagen Browns, Sexlinks. Color pack layers, and Dominic Coppers fron Jenks hatchery located in Oregon, U.S.A. They always send me fantastic hztchling. I pay to have them inculcated for Salmonella, merecks, cocu. Best of luck, just becareful of chicken math. lol
 

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