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Sounds like a nice way to earn some extra money.
My girls are going to do this in a couple weeks (chicks are due on the 28th). They (and others) were given $10 each by our church and were told to try and invest the $10 for a women's charity in India. My 2 girls ordered 25 EE chicks from MPC and are going to raise & sell about a third of them ($20 worth) after 6 weeks (money's due back Nov. 8th) and then they'll finishing raising the rest of the chicks for some extra spending money for themselves.
You must have a lot of space to keep 100 chicks - 25 is a lot to us - especially once they start growing. Do you have a large yard or a lot of room? We have almost 1/2 acre and keep our chickens in chainlink dog runs.
My 11 laying pullets have a 7 1/2 ft x 18 ft. area (open coop & run), while the 7 younger pullets currently have a 6 x 10 area (we plan to sell a few and go down to 14-15 hens once the younger ones get to laying age). The two runs connect to each other, so once the 2 flocks get integrated, they'll share the coop & both runs. I have a separate 6 x 6 run for the new chicks - should be big enough - we'll be selling them off as they grow and need more space.
I hope our new chicks don't come in any new & unique EE colors - that would make us want to keep a couple of them.
So far, even though we bought them at 2 different times, all our easter eggers (7 of them) have only had two types of coloring - either mostly red with lacing or brown with gold necks (like a welsummer). They all have names and we can tell them apart by their combs, body size, or beard color/type.
