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Welcome. You are smart to start with 6-8. I highly recommend staying with that number for a year or two. This is why; you do not know which way you are going to go with your chickens. My husband was the one to get chickens for meat and eggs, I fell in love with them, and of course none of them will be eaten and because I have some production hens and lost two to reproductive disease, I now have 6-hens implanted. And, I now have a chicken rescue. 6-8 allows you to be nimble. If you end up wanting them as pets, and you will do nothing but worry when the temperatures are too cold, you can easily bring that number into the house. Just stay away from production hens when you get chickens, it will break your heart. Hens, and their bodies - in nature lay 10-12 eggs per year. 100-years ago, they only laid 40-60 per year. With medication and genetic engineering, we have bred them to lay 300+ per year. As we all know, constant inflammation is the breeding ground for disease and cancer. 62% of production hens will have cancer or reproductive diseases (Oviductal impactions, salpingitis, egg yolk peritonitis) by age 2.
 

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