All this talk of chickens, I actaully went out and bought 6 baby chicks. They are only a few days old at this time, and are very very tiny. For the next 90 days, we have to keep them in a small container with a heat lamp on them so that they will stay warm and grow, what my electic bill would generate will be another story from keeping this 250 watt heat bulb on them, cant be any worse then this past winter where I at one month had to shell out $723.00 for Feb's bill. Once they get bigger, they can live outside, so this weekend I am gonna build a chicken coupe. I did my homework on caring for them, and look forward to having my own eggs in the future. fortunatly you need a million chickens to make money off of them to sell their eggs, also nned to have them fda approved, perhaps your buddy dave the egg tycoon can give me some pointers?