Coop is currently in work. Sometime in the fall (I think) I had planned to order my chicks. Was thinking about 15 mixed breed, egg layers, day old chicks. During a conversation with an "Old Time Chicken Farmer": he suggested to get half the flock and then at a point in the future get the other half. He reasoning was that you only had half your flock going through their phases of life not the whole flock.