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Yet your very post points to the crux of the issue, regardless of what you read here, there are very few hard and fast "rules" for any aspect of raising chickens. What works well for one, may not for another.
It's a community like any other...
Most of the advice here isn't always black and white, right or wrong, or good vs poor advice. As you've found out you need to pick what best applies to your situation or best follows your ideas of how you want to do things. Everybody here means well, but...