[header] How to properly care for your chicks and older chickens [title] Decide where to get your chicks. [step] You can buy them at a local feed store or find someone who hatches them often. It is suggested that you buy them from a feed store, because those stores sex them (find their gender) and give them vaccinations that will protect them from various diseases later in life. 
Before you get your chicks, have a box or a cage to put them in. [substeps] Line the bottom with newspaper for now and start to introduce hay and straw later.