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@teddyjames I meant that if you order chicks from Murray McMurray, you'll have to provide them heat. When we got dirty grain and beans they came out of the combine harvester at the farm, the fellow who worked and maintained it would bag some for us. If a person was near a mill, they might be...

I'm afraid if the power goes out randomly for four or five days at a time, you won't be able to raise day-old-chicks. They need heat. Your best bet may be to put up an advert at feed/pet stores and on craigslist saying you take unwanted chickens. Eat them unless they seem likely to be laying...

@CliftonQuail I've seen quite a few of wooden shipping crates with one side hinged, a pop door and ventilation and a tarpaper roof added. Roosting bar and maybe a nest box, perhaps in the form of an actual cardboard box, inside. A neighbor had such a setup. It's not too bad looking and works...

@teddyjames You can have a village of tiny coops instead of one large one. Wooden shipping crates are sometimes free. Up on legs with boards across the back two they can form part of a wall for the run.

I dunno. Dooryard chickens were certainly common among all the hobby-farms and real farms I remember from childhood in the late seventies. They had a shed or a place in a barn to roost, and ran around eating spilled grain and kitchen scraps and bugs, maybe got scratch and a little layer-mash...

Yikes! Folks, please do not suggest poaching. Rabbits, by the way, also have a season (Nov - Feb) and require a license. @teddyjames -- Around here there's a lot of streambeds choked with willow-wands and I could make a lot of wattle for the cost of my time. Just remember that anything worth...

@teddyjames Like people said, they free-ranged poultry. And might actually have set a child to watch the birds all day, like the goose-girl in fairy tales. But the answer to your question of what'd they use instead of wire mesh, is: wattle. It's woven willow-whips or branches. There are some...