Hello,
Thank you for all your really helpful replies we are off to visit a lady who breeds chickens on Sunday to get an idea of which we prefer and get some advice. We have also booked on to a chicken keeping course which we are really looking forward to, I think this will go through everything from handling the chickens to advice on coops etc!!
Do you all have wooden coops?
Thank you for the advice on the dogs Dogmother, our boy doesn't really have much of a prey drive, as long as he has a ball he's not really interested in much else!! But of course we will make sure the hens are safe and undisturbed, like anything it will take time for him to get used to something new being in the garden....he doesn't mind the wood pigeons on the bird feeder