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I think you got the numbers a little wrong--common advice is 4 square feet per hen in the coop, and 10 square feet per hen in the run. So the numbers you gave are right for 4 hens, but bigger than needed for each hen. (More space isn't a problem, but it's nice to know what's the minimum and...

If you had asked her first, I'm sure it would have been very different. Either she would have raised the chicks, or she would have told you why not. But because she just found the chicks in her yard, she figured that someone irresponsibly dumped them there, and no longer wanted them. And she...

This is a fine spot to ask for information. People are just being rude because they don't like what you did with your first set of chicks. I agree with them that it's best to learn about what an animal needs, before you get the animal. But the past is past, and you cannot go back and change...

The biggest ones sold at Tractor Supply might work for 4 chickens. The smaller ones will not. Check what number of chickens each says it is for--they are giving numbers for bantam chickens (extra small chickens.) So plan on half as many chickens as the coop description says. That goes for most...