Five breeds, one flock, built on purpose.
Cheshire Park runs a heritage poultry breeding operation — Japanese Bantams, Silver Sebrights, Buff Orpingtons and both Standard and Phantom Sussex, kept as distinct lines rather than one mixed backyard flock.
Poultry is one of the liveliest corners of Cheshire Park, and one of the most deliberate. We're not keeping a general-purpose flock for eggs on the breakfast table — we're breeding five distinct lines, each kept true, with the aim of building toward a flock of around four hundred birds over time.
That's the target, not where we are today. We're staged rather than rushing to get there all at once — bringing in breeding stock, building out infrastructure, and letting the numbers grow as the systems around them are ready to support them properly.
Kept separate, kept true.
The flock is built from five heritage lines: Japanese Bantams, Silver Sebrights, Buff Orpingtons, and both Standard and Phantom Sussex. Each has its own reason for being here — size, temperament, colour, or simply being a breed worth keeping true rather than letting the lines blur.
Running five lines properly means space, and the birds are currently split across two large runs and a chicken tractor, with more infrastructure planned as the flock grows.
Chicks and hatching eggs, not just eggs for the table.
The commercial side of the poultry operation is built around selling day-old-to-one-week-old chicks, rather than running purely as an egg enterprise. It's a model that suits heritage breeding — it puts good stock into other people's hands early, and it means the flock earns its keep well before any bird reaches the table.
We hold a Property Identification Code and are building this out the same way we're building everything else here — properly, and in stages, rather than promising more than the flock can deliver yet.
Room to grow into four hundred birds.
As the flock builds toward its target size, we plan to bring hatching-egg and chick availability, breed-by-breed detail, and enquiry details onto the site. None of that exists yet — we'd rather build it once there's a flock worth showing in that kind of detail. If you're after any of it now, get in touch directly.