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First welcome to the world of purebred animals. This is a long and some times frustrating road. With that said here is my 2 cents.
Do not buy alot of chickens from many sources. Stay away from big hatcheries there stock will not breed true. Have coops built before bringing in chickens. Work only with 2 breeds max to start. You are new to all this and it is a big learning process to learn about the breeds you want to work with. Join the breed clubs and talk to those breeders already working with the breed you wish to work with. Buy the SOP and study it. Each breed has it own shape, stuctrure ect. Now for true pure breeding you will have to keep hens separte and not in a flock. That way you can put best males with hens that they would work best with and not with just any hen. Flock breeding will not improve stock very fast only pairing will do fast upgrading. Think now of what you will do with all your cull stock. Since you will be raising hundreds of chicks and not keeping most. Selling them is not considered a good idea since they are culls from a breeding program. Reason why you are trying to improve a breed why sell your culls that are no good to the public. How does that improve the breed, that harms it. Not too mention gives you a bad reputation at the start that you will not over come for years.
Now on to feed. Corn is not what you want to grow. It is too low protien and too fatening. Look too some else like field peas, armanth, beets something that they can thrive on. You will need tons of it too since you want alot of chickens. You are looking at 5 or more acres tied up in feed just for one flock of 30. That's too feed for whole year. This is putting into figures of spoilage and bugs ect. You will not get the whole 5 acres to be good feed. Heaven forbid that you have a bad growing season and loose it all. Then what?
So plan ,plan and plan some more before jumping in. Good luck.
With my cull stock, I sell them to an Asian lady and her friends, she buys all that I don't want, young chickens like around 3 months old and up and my old roosters and hens, and I make some money off them to cover the expenses, which I thank God.
The feed- I already plan to grow armanth, flax, garden rice, sunflower, german fox tail millet, broom corn, pumpkins, and open pollinated corn which have higher protein then hybrid corn. I only grow heirloom crops, and save the best seeds for next years's crop. I will welcome any more advice on this. I have about roughly 15 acres to plant crops.
Unfortunately I already got 10 chicks from Ideal, but if I do not like their strain, I will buy a few dozen eggs from you. Thanks for posting the pictures!
