Help with breed please

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Hi Everyone. I'm pleased to have just joined your forum

I live in South Devon and want to keep a couple of hens. I am looking at buying a good size house and run for them. When I’m home I intend to let them have the run of a small but totally enclosed shrubby garden about 10m by 5m with a small area of grass. My main concern is that I have two nervous cats and whilst I’m sure this won’t matter to the hens I am concerned the hens may chase the cats!

Please can I have some suggestions for a suitable breed that for two hens would provide a good supply of largish eggs, are friendly, will not ruin the garden too much and not chase the cats :D

Any help would be appreciated
 
Hi and welcome to the forum, this is a dificult one.If you need good suply of eggs most hybrids will provide this,but tend to live a short live.Ligth Sussex,silver/grey Dorking have also good laing abilities.If you buy chicks and grow them together with cats-they should torerate eachother,but then you have to worry that cat's natural instinct can kick in and they kill the chick.If you get adult hens they propobly will be affraid of your cats anyway.If the cats really nervus I would get the chicks and raise them together.Maybe other members with both species can give you a better advise,good luck :) If you go on YOUTUBE and type chicks and cats,or hens and cats you can see some few videos,maybe this will help.
 
Helllo and welcome to poultry keeping.
If you want bright, loving, chickens who lay large scummy eggs, and totally ignore the cat, choose Warrens (hybrids).
Light Sussex also fit the bill, and are gentle, tame and mostly stunning to look at, also like Warrens, hearty and healthy generally. Hope this helps you choose. If have a little more room and also want a couple of lovely chatty companions add a couple of Pekins to your little flock, they lay loads of lovely little eggs, and are great to have in the garden.
 
Howdy,

White Leghorns are known to lay three hundred eggs a year and sometimes lay two eggs a day. Even during molting, they lay. This is our first year raising them and they have just recently started laying. The only con with having them is they are high-strung and picked our other chickens' feathers out when cooped up too long.
I have a Rhode Island Red who laid very well, even during the winter. She is really friendly and talkative too.
We've also had two New Hampshire Reds, which were very good layers of large eggs.I don't remember if they laid well during the winter. They can't tolerate the heat very well, so you if you live in a hot area, you will have to keep them cool. They ,too, were very friendly birds.

I hope this advice help!
~Chicken Chaser :D
 
Just had a look at the youtube clip mentioned, and if there are any dog/cat lovers out there (as well as chicken lovers of course!!) have a look at youtube.com/texasgirly1979 this is linked to the cat with the chicks. They have a pit bull and the clips are absolutely amazing! What wonderful animals they have. There are several clips, one with the pit bull and hens and lots more. Worth a look.
 
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