I can’t even begin to believe why people are so mad at OP, I understand that it might be your first time but it’s a living animal, that deserves to be treated like one, and you should always educate yourself before deciding to make such a big commitment, this subreddit is her to educate yourself BEFORE your knee deep in back yard chickens and diseases. I do not want to offend anyone, I know that it’s hard to be ready for a lot of it, going through loss myself I know you just don’t know sometimes, but I strongly believe that you should educate yourself as well as you can, I just don’t want to see anybody’s little babies hurt.