Hi everyone, we are in Garland, TX and it is a east suburb of Dallas. Our home does not have hoa and the city openly allows for up to 4 hens. YEAH! So, our source of day old chicks has been the local craiglist. We keep 4 pans of RIR in the last 4 years often from straight ran pen. 2 of them were destroyed by racoons overnight and one we sold to my friends as meat for they will not stop eating their own eggs. The current 4 are doing great and we are enjoying the eggs everyday. My boys and i are venturing into the egg hatching portion of their life cycle this month by building an igloo chest cooler incubator. So more info to follow. Stayed tuned.