find someone near you that already has chickens. Either buy a few from them or most will hatch ya a few chicks if ya want to go that route. They can also tell ya about how many you will need from their stock.

The neighbors and my dog look after his chickens. He does not know what he has though had them given to him by clients he has worked for and they are all sorts of different colors and some have hatches=d last year under the brush hog of his that prevented him from mowing for a while. His run around free 24/7 and thanks to the dogs he has not lost one since we got here just over a year ago. A couple of the white ones come over to visit now and then and thats what put the chicken bug in the bosses head. My dog just like hearing them. It looks funny when he does that when I am over at the neighbors place or when he goes over there by himself.

Vicious Roosters

C’mon scuba surely you have heard of fighting cocks?!

You got to get some Guinea hens also.

A mean rooster can be a lot of fun around the right people. If someone runs from them it’s hilarious. I know, I have a warped sense of humor.

I'm Telling you get Delawares...gentle , And layBrown big Eggs

Meanest rooster I ever had was a big barred rock.

Us Too Bruce....I just sold him and 11 Brock hens ....never again

We had a couple of mean Araucanas. I probably spelled that wrong but the hens layed blue eggs. They knew my wife’s stepmothers car and wouldn’t let her out. It was great. Lol

The gentlest rooster I ever had was a cross between a black australope and black giant that I hatched out myself in a incubator. I was gone to work at a union job and my wife you hates hearing roosters crowing all day shot him

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Got me so mad at the time I sold all my chickens.Buying some more come this spring time as I have sure missed having chickens this last few years.But just buying laying hens.I might just sneak a rooster in the order .....dang honey they must have made a mistake.

No if its not yourself it's super funny

I have had several different breeds of chickens. The most reliable layers were leghorns. white eggs almost daily. Dominicks being a real close second. Lay large brown eggs. All other breeds were not as proficient and very few were much good as broilers. The austrolopes layed well but were very easy to get sick and fought all the time with other breeds of chickens. They were nasty birds IMO

this year I am going to try the Bielafelders. A large, colorful, auto sexing, german breed known for their x-tra large brown eggs. They also frequently lay dbl yoked eggs. Gentle and supposed to be able to take care of themselves well. A little more expensive to to buy though. I think McMurray is at 8 bucks for day old females.

Meanest rooster I ever had was a rhode island red. At least once a month I had to give that thing a boot or it would attack any body got near it. I don't know how it survived my boot as many times as it did. Didn't survive the shotgun though.

Andrew already asked the questions I had. Eggs or meat or both? Also the security issue has been discussed. Easier to do it right as you go than to have to redo.

We raised meat birds and kept some hens for eggs as I was growing up. We would buy around 150 hatched chicks each year and start them out in a heated coup. Young birds do not tolerate cold and wet. If they get cold, they will pack up so tight that many of them will get smothered. We would usually lose a few anyway but would butcher the majority (all of the males) but would keep a few as replacements for hens that quit laying and found the stew pot. It was just the three of us but we ate chicken a couple times a week. We also had eggs for breakfast every day plus what was used in baking and other cooking. Excess eggs got sold at our little country store. IIRC. Rhode Island Reds were our breed of choice.

And one thing I do not recall seeing was security from the air. Hawks and owls will do a number on them if the pen has an open top.

Thats Exactly why my Chicken run is Covered Top to bottom.
Hawks got l our first ducks n chickens

We don't free range but they have a good life here ...pampered

Yep got the new chicken pen all built with a netted top.

ask any young lady without the good sense to carry a stick to smack the rooster with.

why do you think c-0-c-k fighting works

haven't you heard of Pecking order , it really is a thing dominance decided by brutal and even deadly picking and pecking

a dozen is a nice number because and they will fit in a 4x8 night coop a nesting box per every 2 chickens is recommended but a few more isn't a bad idea

I think your going to want them 10 yards from the house or so they get an odor

Very good^^^