Where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today, it’s Neil Bennett, co-CEO of H/Advisors and proud chicken owner, with the Notebook pen For the past 25 years and more, we have kept a few chickens at the bottom of the garden, like an impressive 1.3m other families in Britain. Chickens have been pecking around our village since Anglo-Saxon times, they produce wonderful fresh eggs and eat the scraps from the kitchen.