The wife has been bugging for a couple years to get some chickens and I think I might finally break down and pull the trigger this year. We have well over an acre fenced in that I can use for them to graze in with a semi-mobile coop/run. I'm sure I'm going to have a ton of questions once we get some people posting in here. We want to start with 3 chickens.

I guess my first question is does anyone here own chickens? What can you tell me about the whole ownership experience?

I plan on building my coop from scraps I snag from my garage, etc. I'm going to have some questions about that too.

So, chicken people, feel free to start posting.