Rural Gardening: New to raising chickens, and have questions, help!!, 1 by carminator1

carminator1 wrote:
Hello I just purchased 4 little baby chicks, they are Gold Sex Links, they are very cute and I am hoping to raise them for their eggs and also for their chicken manure. At first I wanted to get the bantams since they are smaller and thought would be more mangeable but the store had males and females all together and so I did not want any males. I live in a subdivition and don't think many of my neighbors would like the noise that a rooster every morning.

My concern is whether the chicks will fligh high and get to my neighbors yards, I have a fairly high fence about 2 feet but I am worried that they might be able to jump to it, so my question is how high can these chickens fly and also what can I do to prevent it and to keep them in my yard?

Here's a picture of the little babies.