stock photo — these aren’t my chickens!

We have:

• 1 large cardboard box (recycled, yay!)
• 1 roll of screen to go over the top, so they don’t flutter out and hide under the couch
• 1 heat lamp
• 1 bag of wood shavings
• 1 bag of feed
• 1 waterer
• 1 feeder

Now we just need the little critters, which should start arriving at our local farm stores next week. Based on our city ordinances, I calculate we can have up to six chickens in the yard. I don’t know, though, if we should buy an extra chick or two, just in case? Sad to think that way, but what if they don’t all make it? But then what if they DO? Decisions, decisions.

Is there a reader out there with experience (OMEGAMOM!) who can tell me if I’m forgetting anything direly important?