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Welcome. I am so happy you joined before getting chickens...I wish I had. So, I am going to focus on your coop and run. Do not buy a pre-fabricated coop...don't even think about it. All of them grossly overstate the number of chickens, are poorly ventilated and are not designed well. Either modify a shed (what many of us do), or build. Think of it this way...if you have inclement weather and the chickens have to stay in the coop, could they be in there all day? Can you walk in there to give them food and water and remove poop, and can you sit in there with them. Also, losses are not a "given" unless you free range. You can have the best of both worlds if you make a large chicken yard run, and cover the sides with 1/2 inch hardware cloth with an apron (running the hardware cloth from the bottom on the outside on the ground about 18-inches to prevent digging predators from getting in) and then hard covering some of the run for rain, and high quality avian netting for other parts. One of my areas that has 15 hens (I have three areas - the others have one rooster with three hens, and the other has two roosters), but, the one with 15 hens is 40x60 foot chicken yard. It doesn't have to be that big - but no one here will ever say their secure coop and run is too big.
 

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