Ever thought of keeping Garden chickens?
We are a chicken breeder in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Our home bred friendly chickens are suitable to satisfy the needs of garden keepers, allotmenteers and smallholders. Hedgerow Henporium are also pleased to be official agents for the famous Black Rock ® chickens. We have these delivered to us directly from the Muirfield hatchery in Scotland.
Hedgerow Henporium is based in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, not far from Wirral and North Wales. Our Cheshire chickens have found homes from as far away as Newcastle in the North East and Kent in the South East because chicken people like to travel to get the best birds.
If you are looking for chickens for sale then you have definitely come to the right place.
Important News regarding Avian Influenza!!
You may have heard about the escalation of bird flu in the UK. If you are planning on starting to keep chickens, we have a page on Avian Influenza with more information. This will allow you to prepare for any restrictions that may happen in the future. Forewarned is forearmed as they say.
The Benefits of Keeping Chickens
- Chickens like to be cuddled – FACT
- A chicken loves to chat – FACT
- Chickens are always pleased to see you – FACT
- Having garden hens is a wonderfully calming influence on you , especially when you feel stressed – FACT
- What other pet sorts out your breakfast by providing the most delicious breakfast eggs – yet another unmistakable FACT
- These beautiful creatures are the gift that keeps on giving
- By keeping hens in the garden, you will begin to see and appreciate all birds in a whole new light
Keeping a few garden hens has lots of benefits. Chickens are even kept as therapy for the elderly and people struggling with mental wellbeing these days. People on the autism spectrum also find a great deal of value in keeping chickens. They give the lonely a purpose and offer great companionship. Chickens are definitely a force for good things to happen.
If you think you can’t keep hens in the garden or allotment – think again – you’re missing out. You can keep hens in almost every garden, however large or small. Keeping garden poultry has become one of the fastest growing hobbies in the UK and with good reason. That was even before Covid arrived, but now more people are realising the benefits of keeping garden chickens. It’s not until you start to keep chickens that you realise that they are a lot more fun than you ever imagined.
Hens can be kept in Smaller Gardens too!
How much space do hens need? Well you do not need a farm to be able to keep hens successfully. As long as you can provide a minimum of 2 square metres of outside space per hen they will be perfectly happy. Ideally it should be more. Their night-time home needs to be big enough to contain them safely overnight. They will not use the coop during the day except to lay their delicious eggs.
What sort of chicken breeder are we?
Hedgerow Henporium is a chicken breeder of various types of lovely chickens for sale in Cheshire. We handle them regularly to ensure that they are socialised and, therefore, make perfect pets. No Rocky Balboa moments required here!!
If you are already a hen breeder and want to refresh your breeding cockerel, we often have roosters available. We breed our cockerels to the correct breed standard.
We can supply all ages from cute and fluffy day old chicks up to 18+ week point-of-lay chickens. This does depend on the time of year as stock fluctuates with the seasons.
If you want to witness the magic miracle of new life, we can supply hatching eggs, or even incubators for hire if you don’t have a broody hen. Our fully equipped incubator hire and brooder hire packages are very reasonable and removes all the guesswork.
We offer a hatch-to-order service if you have sourced your own hatching eggs.
All our girls receive care notes appropriate to their age. This gets the new adoptive chicken parents off to a good head start.
All our birds come with LIFETIME AFTERCARE support too.
Once you have hens, you may wish to consider our hen boarding service so your holidays become stress free. Details on our Holiday care for chickens page.
What we don’t Breed
We didn’t used to keep bantam sized chickens but we got introduced to USA Silkies in a moment of madness. These moments of madness do happen when you start to keep chickens! Check our blog page here to find out 8 reasons why we feel you might be short-changed with them. We can hatch any bantam sized chickens for you if you provide your own eggs, but otherwise they are not what we stock. Large fowl that lay proper sized eggs is what we are about. So, apart from USA Silkies we don’t keep anything that is bantam sized.
Need more info? Ask us for more details
If you are unsure about whether you are able to keep hens in the garden, give us a call today on O1244–646~o26. We never need much prompting to talk about chickens.
Not sure whether Chicken Keeping is for You?
We also run very popular courses for keeping chickens to give you plenty of practical confidence. It’ll give you the perfect head start you need in order to keep these adorable (and frankly addictive) chickens in the garden. A course is ideal to let you see what is involved before you put your toes in the water. Details here on our Courses page.
Check out the chicken breeds pages to see what chickens for sale we have at the moment. Or even a quick phone call to O1244_646~o26 if you are unsure what to choose. We can help.
If you are worried about what to do with your chickens when you go on holiday, then we have got you covered. We now offer holiday boarding for hens. Book through our shop.
Why not give it a try and join the fastest growing hobby in the UK. Call or message us today!
We hope to meet you very soon.
