SAR01 wrote:
I want to have my own laying hens only I be scared of chickens! (not like snakes.. but still scared!!!!) I could never go check the nests!!!

if you get those chickens like we have, they are called cochins, they never get very big, and can't "spur" you like the bigger brands of chicken can. As for snakes in the nests, we have never seen one, but you get around this, by poking in the pen with a stick first, before retrieving the eggs.