It is harder to raise a lot of chicks if you have no room/facilities, but it can be a good thing to have a few more... Then you can keep the ones you like best and absorb any accident/illness losses that might happen on the way... I have an order coming from My Pet Chicken this week, and yeah, I paid more, but they will sex them and I can order pullets and not wind up with huge numbers of roosters, which is what happened with the spring order I placed through another hatchery. Most places will only sell rarer breeds straight run. I don't know how much I spent raising all those roosters, but they were not very meaty and obnoxious to sort out and take care of and they ate a lot... and took up a lot of room. Fewer chicks are less work, that's for sure. My straight run chicks this year had 2 x's the roosters as hens!