Food: Ask the suppier what he feeds and get a sack at the time of purchase - you need to take it slow to change food, it can upset them!

Suppliments: Bit of personal choice here, I don't generally. Others will give advice on this!

Bedding: I use dust extracted wood chip, straw is often used in nestboxes, I don't anymore as it can harbour redmite.

Lino: YES! I use lino on the floor of the coop - it is amazingly easy to clean and you can lift it out and scrub it if you have to. It also adds a layer of insulation come winter.

Breeds: If you want eggs followed by boiler fowl afer the first year then you need what is known as a dual purpose or utility breed - examples of this would be Marans or Sussex in pure breed. You could also look to get comercial hybrid table fowl and hybrid layers - but I understand that they need slightly different feed/treatment in that the table fowl need growers pellet rther than layers pellet - so that might not work.

If you are planing on getting a few point-of-lay (POL) enjoying the first flush of eggs and then culling for the table as required I would go for a heavy hybrid such as Maran cross or Sussex cross as they still display the utility conformation of heavy breast development combined with reasonably good egg laying.