I want a chicken farm

Right he ho.

Dr Phil says that the difference between a dream and a goal is a timeline. Well I dont have a timeline for my chicken farm. It is purely a dream that I will never be able to do. If I cant sleep at night (as I've been having trouble lately), I think about my chicken farm. There are a number of reasons why I want to farm chickens. I'll explain.
People take advantage of their stupidity. They cant fight back. I loathe the thought of buying battery hen eggs but thats pretty much the main market unless you want to pay double the price! As far as I'm aware, the eggs that I generally do buy are from a battery farm. I've seen them on tv a couple of times - only a couple but the images are burned into my memory.
Poor defenseless chickens caged unable to do anything, except eat what they're given, cluck, and lay eggs. That is no life.

I want to be a hero one day. I cant fly, I have no super powers, I cant stand the sight of blood so I'm no good in a hospital - maybe my being on this earth is to be a hero to chickens.
I dream of buying a battery hen farm, and the land next to it..(in my dream, the barn that they're in is surrounded by land used for cropping). I want to open the doors, let the sun shine in and let the chickens run outside.

I fear that they wont be able to run, therefore making my entire plan fail.. but I want them to run free. I dont think there would much of a better feeling than seeing the chickens run free for the first time breaking a tradition of torture.
I have a bit of an idea as to why they dont do this currently. I think its all down to money. If it was a viable business option to use MORE space and make more money, then I'm sure they would.. but currently I guess they make enough money and use little space squashing them up.

I would be thinking outside the square. Maybe there are ways of cutting costs to enable the income to remain high. What if the feeding bill came down? Rather than feeding grain after grain after grain.. (which is increasing anyway as they can now make biofuel with it, and there are more buyers for intensive farming eg dairy), then why not let the local community support your business? People *could* use worm farms but many dont. What would happen if I, as a business owner, handed out buckets for food scraps, kind of like the council containers that people sort their paper and plastics into.. and sent round a vehicle (hybrid) to pick up these scraps at a set time. People may not like this idea but there could be insentives, such as, per kg of food scrap given could go toward a voucher of eggs.

I also plan to change the roof and use skylights to decrease the lighting bill of the barn where they will be laying their free range eggs. My Grandad used to have a chicken coop and had a couple of rows of wooden boxes filled with fresh straw. I'd do the same.

I would also attach a water heating system which would work by solar power. I have thought about setting it up specifically so its only heated to a small amount - just enough to provide enough warmth over winter so it could be trickled into the lengthy thin troughs.

Chickens dont make good companions, they have an annoying 'bock'. They arent cuddly, and despite what most little girls think.. they dont like being dressed up in clothing. I am aware of all of this, and all I want to do is save the chickens.

Sometimes its a pity I'm a dairy farmers wife.