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About 2-4, 2 for the amout you have, put if you plan on getting more i would put in 4.. 4-6 hens per 1 nesting box. but hens seem to like to use the same box.

yes, have a well vented coop..

3-5 hens per nesting box, all 6 of our hens use 2 boxes. (some days one)

Yes, make sure they have room outside aswell:)

now if they are free range, you could probably do 2-3 square feet per chicken..

chicken coop 4 square feet run 8 square feet bantam coop 2 square feet run 6 square feet Ive read this in a book, and on many websites. About the pine, I have never used pine, ever seince i have had my chickens ive always used straw in the coop, with pullets/chicks , ive always used pine...

they free range alot though.

8, will have 14 in there soon.

from what i have heard You will have to introduce new chicks to the hens at about 10-12 weeks.

How do you put that bottom message Listed below, Sorry im new "I don't get better with age, only more confused(ing)."

I rake their droppings out every day usually, my bedding is about 3-6 inches, we have a 8x8 coop. i take all the hay out ever month usually, and replace the nesting hay about every 2 weeks..

Yes, we built a small coop on wheels so we could move them outside in the day time, we put screen on the top because they would fly out, never again, we will have to keep our chicks in the garage again for 12 weeks, so we can move them in with the full grown hens and roosters....

Last year at TSC we saw ChickDays. We have always wanted to have a small farm, garden, chickens, fruit trees, bees, we have all of thoes now. So last year we got 6 hens, 2 bantam roosters, we biult our huge chicken coop, we call it the chilton. So we fell in love with our flock, this year we got...

We put our Chickens in the coop at about 12 weeks, we had to wait to finish building our coop so we built a small coop in the garage to keep them in until the main coop was finished. but I've read about 4-6 weeks..