warrens or magpies (breeds) are good chickens and will produce a good amount of eggs for a long time. feed them on maze, layers pellets and scraps/leftovers from the kitchen. 5-6 chikens is a good place to start and you will need quite a large hutch. give them a dust bath and put some big logs in yopur garden and turn them over every week or so. this will let your chickens have a nice scratch aroung for beatles and worms. fence off any flowerrbeds or veg patchs though! you will need a pen at least 12ftx7ft for 5 chickens