I hope you do adopt some ex battery hens, if you do for the eggs get 2 now 2 next year then 2 the year after (or something like that) otherwise they will all get old and stop laying at the same time. Also lock them up at night, foxes get everywhere. After the intitial culure shock ex battery hens settle down to enjoy freedom. We signed up both petitions.
Fantastic
(and sound advice too)