- Check your local regulations about raising chickens and obey them.
- Plan how you want to raise your chickens and layout the area to grow them in.
- Set up a proper henhouse with power for heat and cooling, and easy to clean.
- Set up a large enough and safe area for your chickens to walk around
- Keep all the area that the chickens use or live in clean and remember to sanitize them.
- Sanitize your own clothes and shoes and keep them from polluting the house as much as possible.
- Get with your local farm supply to get a feed mix that works.
- Get your chickens from a friend or a feed store, (That way you know they are safe to start).
- Get multiples of one type of chickens to raise together, so they can socialize.
- Protect them from the local animals and this includes securing the henhouse at night.
- Follow all steps in butchering and follow all precautions.
- Research everything you do, before you do it, planning and knowledge make great chickens.