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Thanks everyone! Free ranging definitely sounds like a good idea. I will be selling my eggs just for eating, unless someone just wants to hatch a few mutts. I wanted to get breeds that were good egg layers, were pretty, and give me a variety of colored eggs. With the breeds I chose I should get...

I was thinking about getting EE's, RIR's, Barred Rocks, Brown Leghorns and Wyandottes.

Thanks Qi chickens! That actually seems like a very good idea! We do have plenty of Red Tailed Hawks in the trees around here, which worries me. They have snatched up quit a few of our homing pigeons which are about the same size as my three bantams. So if I were to expand their cage, how much...

Thank you. I am still unsure about all this. Why do you say if I want to sell the eggs that they should not free range?

I will be getting about 12 chicks this Spring for future egg production and pets. The pen my current chickens live in is not big enough for all of these birds, so I have two choices. I can either expand their cage or let them free range. I worry about keeping them cooped up because the cage...