Thank you all for your input..helpful indeed!! Still working on the coop and it's coming out GREAT. We don't have a lot of space here so I'm thinking we'll start with three and see how we do. I have a few friends who own in town and some have heat lamps(for their full grown hens) and some don't...
The building of our coop will start tomorrow..We are repurposing our wooden playset that my kids have outgrown. I have been researching as much as I can in the past few weeks getting ready to pick them out. We're going to try to start with three, even though most local stores only sell a minimum...