The best thing to do is talk to your FFA teacher. They've got the expertise you are looking for and I'm sure different counties do things differently. Where we are from, we are given 30 broilers to cull down to 3 to show.
I just got my first chicks in February. I did all my research and made sure there was hardwire cloth over every inch of my run and added chicken wire just for security. After falling in love with my RIR, barred rock, my beautiful rooster that had just started crowing the sweetest crow, and an...