What you need to know: Starting off

                 

1)  One of the most important things you need, besides chickens, is space.  Before we moved here we lived in a good sized home without much of a yard and were in a neighborhood, and were unable to even think of having chickens.  But now, after moving here, we have around 6 acres and enough flat ish ground to build a coop and a run.

2)  A coop.  Coops are very important too.  You can build them yourself, buy them off the internet, get kits, or transfer an old outbuilding into a coop.  You will need to make sure you have a big enough coop to suit the needs off all your chickens.  A coop that is too small could mean sickness for your chickens.  Basically, try to make a bigger coop and your chickens will be better off, even if there is lots of room to spare.  Anyway, maybe you will want to get more chickens in the future!   I'll put a few pictures of coops at the end that I got off Google. 

3)  An incubator!  Your eggs won't hatch without one!  This is ours:

4)  Eggs or chicks.  VERY important.  We have buff Orpington eggs.  You can get chicks from places like Tractor Supply and even off the internet.  Here is a pic of our eggs (and my cat): 

5)  A temperature reader and a humidity reader.  Store bought incubators usually have the temperature thing but you may have to buy the humidity reader from someplace like Amazon.

  You will need other stuff too but this will hold you for now.  I will do a post later on about what you will need with chicks.  I hope this was a good start!!

                                                 

I just love this one.  It reminds me of a Hobbit Hole!!  (I am a huge Hobbit/LOTR fan)