Hi Steelsy!

I think your hens are beautiful! May I ask where you got them from?
Are they lavender pekins? I like pekins but particularly buff or lemon cuckoo. I would like to get a buff bantam orpington too! I like the large buff orps - but I've seen them in the flesh & they are big scary fluff balls to a soon-to-be chicken keeper!! I've read that bovan goldline (meadowsweet ranger) are friendly birds and want one of those as well as a wheaten maran!

I am keen on the idea of table chooks too! The only place I think they are available for reasonable prices are :
cotswoldchickens (County gold table birds)
One day old – 2 weeks old ~ £1.75 each
2 weeks old – 4 weeks old ~ £2.00 each
4 weeks old – 6 weeks old ~ £2.25 each

cyril bason (Day old Ross/Cobb meat chicks)
12 chicks ~ £18.50 AH / £19.20 COX / £18.50 PX
I don't know what the difference is with AH/COX/PX

I think you keep meat chicks separate to the big girls as I've read you'll only make 'em go broody...