Chicken and Chicken Coop Talk

If you read our Welcome blog you know we will soon be moving to our starting homestead. We plan to get chickens but what kind? At first we wanted to get just meat birds and fill our freezer. While I was reading up on our county/township codes and for owning chickens in our area I found out we can only own 6. Also our county says our chickens can not be free range they must be in a fenced in area with a top cover so other birds and animals can't kill our chickens. While this saddens me greatly we do not have the funds to fence in our entire front yard with top covering for chickens.

Lets talk coops.. The plan is to have our chickens clear our garden areas so something mobile is a must. I was thinking something like this



Does anyone have anything like this? If you do PLEASE comment below I have some questions!

Our long term plan is dual purpose chickens but what kind? If anyone has any input or think maybe we should change out a few with something else let me know! I'm open to any suggestions as this is very new to us.
Here are the top contenders we have chose:

Plymouth Rock



Brahma



Australorp



And of course our girls want a....
Silkie Bantam



😂😂😂 a Silkie would definitely bring us some joy every day!

Those are the ones we are considering more than likely we would purchase 2 Australorp, 2 Plymouth Rock, 1 Brahma, and 1 Silkie. For all my chicken people out there reading do you normally purchase a day old chick that has the Marek's Vaccination? I follow a few blogs and youtubers who say they do and some who don't. Any help is appreciated!

Have a blessed day!