Feel free to post pictures as they develop the show folks can explain the good and bad of your flock so if you choose to improve For type you can... they can also usually help explain genetics. This is one of the breeds I drool over as just stunning... Hatchery birds are what they are but can akways be used to get ones feet wet with breeds and chickens in general... besides you never know my daughter won in showing with Hatchery birds, everyone said it was impossible but she did well. She got lucky with her chicks maybe or maybe the feed store in question just had really good supplier. They did get some very rare birds in from time to time for very special orders and poultry was their speciality.
All my current birds are Hatchery... though I plan to hopefully get an incubator for some hatching eggs next spring for Cornish maybe.
As for predators be pro active, nothing is worse than a yard full of bloody feathers. I know I have come home to it. Here is what I have done and I live in suburbia based on previous suburban experiences of carnage... in my area are creeks which the wildlife including coyotes and mountain lions use to travel unseen through neighborhoods hunting deer and turkey that also use the creeks, so I got it all skunks, raccoons, dogs, cats, weasels, coyotes, possum, fixes, snakes, owls, vultures and hawks... I am very aware of these critters as I have seen them.
I have my backyard fence, then in second fenced in area I have my coop soon to be coops inside of... which sit on floors I made burrow proof, I used loose laid bricks so I can scrub them down and still have some drainage. The coops I have are not the best as they are kits... but they do include a covered with wood roof runs. This means when the birds are locked up nothing can swoop in and get them, my birds free range my back yard making them hawk targets though during the day, but they have lots of coverage, and I open all doors to coop run so the hens have 3 exits in case a hawk or cat tried to attack durring the day.
In a perfect world my coops would be built out of super sturdy wood (which I suggest over kit coop wood if coyotes are threat) with super strong but small opening wire framed/sandwhiched between wood panels to prevent it from being easily pushed in. I would keep the run completely covered with a solid roof and have multiple exits/enterances like I have now for day time free ranging and escape in case a gutsy hawk or other critter gets in during the day... if I could I would hot wire my coops at night, along with camera, door motion sensor and audio monitoring for the night... Maybe even a light that turns on from motion around the coop.
My current system (less sturdy secure) is working but something is trying to gain Night entry... gnawed wood on outside of the coop I just moved is proof along with obvious but failed attempts to dig under coop due to me bricking in the whole 10 x 10 space the little coop with run is in except for the raised beds which now have dug down wire in them. The critters stalking my birds at night though can squeeze through the black fence around this garden chicken coop area... I may need to wire additional fencing to it... I just moved the little coop to build a second, after finding the damage to the wood on it caused by critter teeth I must make sure I burrow proof it's floor as it is going to be placed in an old flower bed and I should add wood to it's base to repair damage so nothing can breach the coops at night.
But in a perfect world my birds would be secured like some dinosaur from Jurasic Park to keep them safe.. not there yet in building skills or budget...
Consider digging wire down and out around your coop and putting bricks, rocks, that sort of stuff on top to discourages coyotes digging under ar night... also real solid latches and locks, critters are smart... hit YouTube to see various critters attack coops caught on film... keep wire openings small as raccoons will pull chickens heads through at nigh and kill them that way. Some folks make sure coop or run roosts are placed in such a way that no animal can pull a sleeping birds head through.
Happy keeping.