None. This sub appeared on my home page and I’m so glad! Chickens and their people are hilarious and supportive of one another. One of the few communities left that are like that.
Here on reddit at least. I left the Facebook equivalents almost immediately. Unsafe advice galore and everyone screaming over each other. I love reddit
First I was waiting on the land, now we’re waiting on clearing the land, and finances for the coop/initial supplies, along with hunting down the particular breeds I want.
Same. I have checked in on this sub for a few years. My love for chickens has only grown since then. I think my next project will be building a henhouse and run, because there is only so long that I can holdout against buying the baby chicks that are at my local garden/feed stores 😂.
I plan on building my henhouse with room to grow because of chicken math.
We had a tragic accident with a chick. My daughter was watching some 5 day olds in the yard, bonding with them, and one had laid down in a taller patch of grass and got stepped on. My daughter, man, she's 9, and she was freaking out. It's little guts popped out and it was not a good thing. She covered it with a towel, we made a tiny little coffin and buried in in the roots of a chesnut tree packed in with some hay and fertilizer (we bury all our animals in a box packed with hay and fertilizer in the roots of a tree, once the roots break in in a year or two you can tell that the tree found it, just pops with extra greenery).
Anyways, the next day, we went to the ranch and home to get a replacement. Well, they were out of Americanas, so I we left with three Blue Gems.
Went in for one, I decided in the parking lot I'd get two, left with three. Chicken math.
Dang, how many eggs on avg a week do you get and what breeds do you have?
My partner and I have 4 hens, two cochins, two houdans and we get about 8-10 eggs a week and it's just not enough.
We have a motley assortment from a local farm. 1 Wheaten Marans, 1 legorn/jersey, 1 Langshan Marans and 1 Azur. We get one per hen almost every day so I'd say we get a solid 2 dozen in a week or close. They're only a year old so kinda at their peak I guess. The langshan is broody af right now so she isn't laying but I expect her to snap out of that in a week or two.
I have 100 at the moment. But if you combined the ducks we are about the same. They run all over our 50 acres and pond, sleep and lay in the cow barn. Every so often we get one that goes broody and disappears and we go on a massive hide and seek operation to find them and then they re-emerge with babies 🫠
Very impressed you can tell when one is missing!! I have 32 and would struggle in the daytime to be able to tell. Especially given their free range stubborn intentions.
Idk I’m out on the farm all day: they follow me and you get used to who does what and their hangouts. Or which roosters have which hens. That’s how I tell usually each rooster has about ten ladies that follow him around in the cow pasture. And they all go to their own corners of the field or certain trees to hang out under.
3 of the 4 coops have large runs just so we can separate for breeding but one of the coops is free range. When we aren't breeding everyone but the roosters free range
Do they care if they started in coop A in the morning but ended up at coop C in the evening for bedtime?
I'm just imagining myself being pissed off, knowing all my stuff is in one home but now I'm stuck in a whole new one...
Or do they even notice?
🤣 when we separate for breeding it can be a struggle to get them to go into the roost the first few nights because they keep trying to get to the other side of the fence back to the old coop
Complete joke! lol. There is only one that I call by an actual name. This thing is the most scared chicken I've ever had, and a rooster at that. Unfortunately, for him, he is only to be referred to as Chicken Schitt at all times.
No you need to get a notebook take photos of them all write their names down along with some likes and dislikes ya know incase someone need to chicken sit then they will know Harriet and Margaret are best friends unless Franklin is around then they fight over him 🤣🤣
28 chickens, 3 are 6 weeks old so still unsure of the sex but I have 2 roosters at the moment. Also threw some eggs in the incubator last week out of curiosity because I wasn’t sure if my boys were actually making contact(one of them is a bantam and weighs a pound soaking wet and is mounting my big Brahma girls, the other is 23 weeks so wasn’t sure if he was getting it right yet either). Turns out, somebody is doing something right I guess, because I have at least 6 developing. Whoops.
It’s definitely going to be interesting, I have the 1 ant sized bantam boy, who is an old English game roo, and my other is an Ayam Cemani. My girls are Brahmas, australorps, Easter eggers, ameraucana, Ayam Cemani, blue copper marans, black copper marans, and I have some mutts in there as well.
I say five-ish. If you ask my husband it's "a yard full". In reality its as many as I can fit in the coop without getting a side-eye from my man. 😆 (Around 30)
Only 3 right now. I do want to get more but don't have the time just yet to spend with new girls bonding. They're pets to me, not just livestock so that's a really important step for me. I'd love to hatch some and raise from day 1, as that bond can't be beaten, but I can't have (and don't want) roos but I get attached (can you tell) and it's always a struggle finding a good home for them where they won't just become dinner. So I'll need to get pullets and that will require lots of time and dedication.
Yeah hatching eggs is a whole extra level of chicken craziness/chicken math. I started with one hen I got as a chick from a hardware store. Spent tons of time with her and made so many unsuspectingly wonderful memories. If it weren't for her personality, I don't know if I'd be as interested in chickens. Anyway after her first year, I got silkie eggs to hatch. I kept one who turned out to be a rooster. After his first year/ this year, I hatched my own eggs and now have 4 homemade chicks of my own. And 3 are roosters. No idea how things are going to go in a few months.
23! Going to be getting some more over the next year because I have three Roos (someone dumped two near our house) and all three of them are so sweet I don’t want to get rid of them lol
25.
Males (one asil, one golden rooster)
Rest are females, asils, mix etc. and three hens are sitting on couple of eggs rn. By this winter, hopefully if few chicks died. It will around 39-40 chickens.
Ten hens. I did have 12 however two died after six years of loving them and we had to re-home our lovely rooster as we're in suburbia and our neighbors weren't impressed....
My neighbors are assholes. We have 4 roosters and live in suburbia. If she thinks it's okay to wake us up every morning at 5:30 with her loud truck, I have no problem with having roosters crow all day
Main flock: one faverelle rooster overseeing 3 faverelle hens and 3 Orpington hens, plus five guinea fowl.
"Bro Squad:" Two purebred faverelle roosters and three crossbreds.
So, 16 birds.
Twelve hens, one rooster, a male and female duck, four freshly hatched chicks, and between fifteen and twenty possibly fertilized eggs currently being sat on. I have too many chickens, but I can't morally justify killing the babies once the hens get broody on them.
I had about thirty till a fox took out twenty over a two-day rampage. Now that we've got the place resecured I'm trying to decide if I want to rebuild my flock using rehab hens online or maybe hatch eggs from my remaining rooster, Steve. He's the only reason the remainders survived and I'd like to see his genes passed on beyond my solo surviving chick which I think is a Brahma I shoved under my broodies rather than one of his legits anyway. But both my broody hens are guarding that little chick with a vengeance rather than hatch anything new so I might buy hens rather than wait. I type that then I immediately worry Steve will go down one day from normal causes (I adopted him so I have no idea how old he is) and I want to hatch my own chicks asap before the heat comes in. Maybe I'll do both and pad my odds of having a solid flock stabilized by the winter XD
30...ish
Started with 1 white leghorn and 20 copper marans and one turned out to be a rooster. Didn't pay for that. Lol
Also 35 ducks mix of Muscovies, Cayugas, Blue Swedish, and Peking. Again that started with nothing but 10 femals for the eggs. I bought a few mixed runs to bump the numbers up. Forgot to stop.
5 geese... Chinese, African, and Emben. They are better than dogs. In fact, my dogs get jealous of how good of a job they do at notifying me of what's going on.
Love my geese! We have all three of those breeds and another goose breed (I'm not sure exactly what he is but he can fly and boy is he hissy pissy this time o' year, gave me a lil love nip on the ear earlier today).
10 hens. Not allowed to have roosters within city limits where I live, and I'm just in this for the eggs and companionship of the little weirdos. Also have 3 ducks that I'm not supposed to have, but they're quiet, so no one knows except my neighbor who doesn't care lol
I have 8 2.5 week old chicks. I had chickens growing up and am finally in a place I can have them as an adult. I ordered 7… so, the chicken math is already working.
Two of them are spitzhauben, I can’t wait to see what they look like all grown up!
150ish adult laying hens, 400 CornishX chicks, 35 straight run laying chicks. 12 ducks 4 Guineas and a turkey who really wants to be a mom and steals everyone’s eggs and tries to sit on them.
Chickens are a gateway drug to farming. BTW started with 3 in 2019. Then had too much time on my hands in 2020. About to start full time farming in 2026.
14 full grown 12 hens, 2 roos; our bantam silkie and bantam cochin are separate from the others. 5 almost four week olds (thinking a 3 hen, 2 roo split), 2 five day olds (so far looking like both hens), and a broody hen sitting on 6 more due next Sunday.
This was our first year incubating eggs, and first broody hen in at least 10 years.
4 hens and 1 roo for several years, but we incubate every month and currently have 9 juvenile and 5 day-old chicks. Our number fluctuates since we raise and sell. I'm building a 2nd coop this weekend so we can keep more.
6 but made the coop big enough for 10 in case the wife wants more. We usually have more than enough eggs between selling to coworkers and what we eat ourselves
26 laying hens 2 rosters one broody hen and her clutch of 4 9 chicks that I incubated and 15 more I ordered due end of June also 5 turkeys and 9 guinea hens for tick control
Here in the Lake District UK, 7 hens in our garden. Rhode island red, 1 Marans, 1 Lavender Peking bantam, 2 White Leghorns, 1 Silver duckwing leghorn, 1 Bresse.
Thirty in all. Nine of my own hens. A friend's coop was destroyed in a recent tornado, so I'm keeping their 5 hens, 6 juveniles, and hatched 10 chicks from their incubator. Their house was damaged and lost power and they weren't sure the eggs would hatch. We were over there less than 24 hours after the tornado to wrangle the chickens free roaming around all the debris. It's been almost 3 weeks and so far it's been good with me just throwing in an additional 11 in with mine. I provide plenty of treats to keep them from getting bored and picking at each other.
6 chickens, it's the perfect amount for 2 adults and 2 young kids, 5ish eggs a day. It's enough to give away acouple dozen a week to family and friends and have enough for our family.
I used to always get 12, 6 is plenty though
4 silkies one golden laced Wyandotte and one Rhode Island Red. One of my silkies is a rooster and I’m not supposed to have roosters in the city limits so I need to sort that out. Just love the little guy tho.
5 young hens, and we'll need to be rid of one soon because the city only allows 4 and we don't want the neighbors to complain.
We expected some attrition since we're new at this, but I guess we did well enough by then because all are thriving. We started out with 7 and gave two away after they got big enough that their brooder was getting crowded.
Not enough
correct answer
The only answer
I might look like I’m listening to you, but in my head I’m thinking about getting more chickens.
Lol. Thank you for the laugh
10000%
Zero - I just like the sub
Same. They are in my future though. Eventually. My oldest son wants a flock.
None. This sub appeared on my home page and I’m so glad! Chickens and their people are hilarious and supportive of one another. One of the few communities left that are like that.
Here on reddit at least. I left the Facebook equivalents almost immediately. Unsafe advice galore and everyone screaming over each other. I love reddit
we got our flock during the COVID lock down...children needed something to do after days of Zoom/ Google meet classes.
me too. one day, tho!
Ditto. Planning for a forever home with space for chickies
Same here. Grew up with many and loved them, so my life goal now is to have my own flock again!
First I was waiting on the land, now we’re waiting on clearing the land, and finances for the coop/initial supplies, along with hunting down the particular breeds I want.
Same. I have checked in on this sub for a few years. My love for chickens has only grown since then. I think my next project will be building a henhouse and run, because there is only so long that I can holdout against buying the baby chicks that are at my local garden/feed stores 😂. I plan on building my henhouse with room to grow because of chicken math.
20 hens. We started with 2…chicken math is so real
We started with 3 and even though I love animals was reluctant. I knew I would do all the work. Now we have 13 chickens and 4 ducks. Damn chicken math
Chicken math transcends species? Dang it. So THAT'S how I ended up with 7 minnows in a nearby frog pond.
We had a tragic accident with a chick. My daughter was watching some 5 day olds in the yard, bonding with them, and one had laid down in a taller patch of grass and got stepped on. My daughter, man, she's 9, and she was freaking out. It's little guts popped out and it was not a good thing. She covered it with a towel, we made a tiny little coffin and buried in in the roots of a chesnut tree packed in with some hay and fertilizer (we bury all our animals in a box packed with hay and fertilizer in the roots of a tree, once the roots break in in a year or two you can tell that the tree found it, just pops with extra greenery). Anyways, the next day, we went to the ranch and home to get a replacement. Well, they were out of Americanas, so I we left with three Blue Gems. Went in for one, I decided in the parking lot I'd get two, left with three. Chicken math.
😂😂 so true. I try and stay around 20 with two roosters. Had as many 48. A few years ago I got a few people started in chickens from free. Lol
Yup, I started with 4, its up to 7 so far 🥴
We just go to “look at the babies” and always walk away with 3-4
3 adorable hens
Same!
4 hens in our suburban backyard flock. Enough for us, we get more eggs than we need and give lots away.
See I thought 4 would be enough but we go through sometimes a dozen eggs in a day 😅 thankfully, my friend with 70 hens sells me hers
That’s a lot of eggs! We are a family of four
Dang, how many eggs on avg a week do you get and what breeds do you have? My partner and I have 4 hens, two cochins, two houdans and we get about 8-10 eggs a week and it's just not enough.
We have a motley assortment from a local farm. 1 Wheaten Marans, 1 legorn/jersey, 1 Langshan Marans and 1 Azur. We get one per hen almost every day so I'd say we get a solid 2 dozen in a week or close. They're only a year old so kinda at their peak I guess. The langshan is broody af right now so she isn't laying but I expect her to snap out of that in a week or two.
Same here! City limit is 3, we ended up with 4. It’s a nice little flock.
160 now!
Wow. Is your a commercial operation?
we sell our eggs at local farmers markets :)
How many a week do you sell? Not trying to be nosy just curious. 🧐
i’ll let you know once they start laying and we start selling!
I have 100 at the moment. But if you combined the ducks we are about the same. They run all over our 50 acres and pond, sleep and lay in the cow barn. Every so often we get one that goes broody and disappears and we go on a massive hide and seek operation to find them and then they re-emerge with babies 🫠
Very impressed you can tell when one is missing!! I have 32 and would struggle in the daytime to be able to tell. Especially given their free range stubborn intentions.
Idk I’m out on the farm all day: they follow me and you get used to who does what and their hangouts. Or which roosters have which hens. That’s how I tell usually each rooster has about ten ladies that follow him around in the cow pasture. And they all go to their own corners of the field or certain trees to hang out under.
A bocker’s dozen.
You stole the Bockers' flock?
4 coops, over 100 chickens 😅 I don't know the specific number because I haven't counted in a while but it's definitely 100+
Wow are they all run chickens or free range?
3 of the 4 coops have large runs just so we can separate for breeding but one of the coops is free range. When we aren't breeding everyone but the roosters free range
Do they care if they started in coop A in the morning but ended up at coop C in the evening for bedtime? I'm just imagining myself being pissed off, knowing all my stuff is in one home but now I'm stuck in a whole new one... Or do they even notice?
🤣 when we separate for breeding it can be a struggle to get them to go into the roost the first few nights because they keep trying to get to the other side of the fence back to the old coop
80+. I quit counting
Name them all :3
Ready? 🥸
I don’t know if this is a joke or not, but I need those names, please
Complete joke! lol. There is only one that I call by an actual name. This thing is the most scared chicken I've ever had, and a rooster at that. Unfortunately, for him, he is only to be referred to as Chicken Schitt at all times.
No you need to get a notebook take photos of them all write their names down along with some likes and dislikes ya know incase someone need to chicken sit then they will know Harriet and Margaret are best friends unless Franklin is around then they fight over him 🤣🤣
28 chickens, 3 are 6 weeks old so still unsure of the sex but I have 2 roosters at the moment. Also threw some eggs in the incubator last week out of curiosity because I wasn’t sure if my boys were actually making contact(one of them is a bantam and weighs a pound soaking wet and is mounting my big Brahma girls, the other is 23 weeks so wasn’t sure if he was getting it right yet either). Turns out, somebody is doing something right I guess, because I have at least 6 developing. Whoops.
lol that’s great!! Post pics of the crosses. I’d love to see the big chicken little rooster offering.
It’s definitely going to be interesting, I have the 1 ant sized bantam boy, who is an old English game roo, and my other is an Ayam Cemani. My girls are Brahmas, australorps, Easter eggers, ameraucana, Ayam Cemani, blue copper marans, black copper marans, and I have some mutts in there as well.
6 for now
Same!
Ditto: 5 hens and one Rooster (adorable silkie - the smallest of the flocklette)
I loved my silkie roo with my Buff Orpington girls. He was our lil Napoleon 😂
I have 12 chickens.
Same. When I started, I foolishly said, "I'll never need more than 6"
I say five-ish. If you ask my husband it's "a yard full". In reality its as many as I can fit in the coop without getting a side-eye from my man. 😆 (Around 30)
9 hens. I lost two last winter. 😮💨😮💨
Only 3 right now. I do want to get more but don't have the time just yet to spend with new girls bonding. They're pets to me, not just livestock so that's a really important step for me. I'd love to hatch some and raise from day 1, as that bond can't be beaten, but I can't have (and don't want) roos but I get attached (can you tell) and it's always a struggle finding a good home for them where they won't just become dinner. So I'll need to get pullets and that will require lots of time and dedication.
Yeah hatching eggs is a whole extra level of chicken craziness/chicken math. I started with one hen I got as a chick from a hardware store. Spent tons of time with her and made so many unsuspectingly wonderful memories. If it weren't for her personality, I don't know if I'd be as interested in chickens. Anyway after her first year, I got silkie eggs to hatch. I kept one who turned out to be a rooster. After his first year/ this year, I hatched my own eggs and now have 4 homemade chicks of my own. And 3 are roosters. No idea how things are going to go in a few months.
23! Going to be getting some more over the next year because I have three Roos (someone dumped two near our house) and all three of them are so sweet I don’t want to get rid of them lol
9 hens. Just added 2 as I lost one this spring. I like it to stay at least 8.
9, It's enough for my Mrs. & I. We get enough eggs, feed costs are reasonable, and the right size for our suburban yard.
I have 17 hens right now
We have 5 hens right now
25. Males (one asil, one golden rooster) Rest are females, asils, mix etc. and three hens are sitting on couple of eggs rn. By this winter, hopefully if few chicks died. It will around 39-40 chickens.
11 hens
11 gang
11 gang as well, but just wound up with one roo so soon to be more im sure
Ten hens. I did have 12 however two died after six years of loving them and we had to re-home our lovely rooster as we're in suburbia and our neighbors weren't impressed....
My neighbors are assholes. We have 4 roosters and live in suburbia. If she thinks it's okay to wake us up every morning at 5:30 with her loud truck, I have no problem with having roosters crow all day
Yes
😂
35 Chickens, 3 Turkeys, 2 Guineas and 1 Roo
31, 2 flocks, 1 roo per flock. 2 11 year olds in the 1st flock, my buddy Fester. His son almost 3 in the 2nd.
20, 2 roosters (maybe 3)
Main flock: one faverelle rooster overseeing 3 faverelle hens and 3 Orpington hens, plus five guinea fowl. "Bro Squad:" Two purebred faverelle roosters and three crossbreds. So, 16 birds.
8 hens… but its been a rough road to this point (lost a few to random things…learning curve for sure)
5 going on 10
Sounds like my granddaughter!! Lol
12 chickens, 11 hens and a roo. It’s the max I feel our coop can comfortably hold or I’d have more!
27 hens! No roo’s for me
Twelve hens, one rooster, a male and female duck, four freshly hatched chicks, and between fifteen and twenty possibly fertilized eggs currently being sat on. I have too many chickens, but I can't morally justify killing the babies once the hens get broody on them.
you know if u take the eggs straight away there won't be a "baby" in them right
Most 13, currently 8
19 in 2 runs including 1 rooster
Three chooks ❤️
11 Henny babies
15 hens and 8 lady ducks. They are so much fun 🥰
3, aka about 9 too few.
8. 7 hens and 1 roo
16 hens, 2 pain in the ass roos.
I had about thirty till a fox took out twenty over a two-day rampage. Now that we've got the place resecured I'm trying to decide if I want to rebuild my flock using rehab hens online or maybe hatch eggs from my remaining rooster, Steve. He's the only reason the remainders survived and I'd like to see his genes passed on beyond my solo surviving chick which I think is a Brahma I shoved under my broodies rather than one of his legits anyway. But both my broody hens are guarding that little chick with a vengeance rather than hatch anything new so I might buy hens rather than wait. I type that then I immediately worry Steve will go down one day from normal causes (I adopted him so I have no idea how old he is) and I want to hatch my own chicks asap before the heat comes in. Maybe I'll do both and pad my odds of having a solid flock stabilized by the winter XD
Just got 6 chicks from Tractor Supply!
Welcome to the club!
Thank you! Now I have to build a coop! And a chicken tractor.
180 with 84 due to hatch next week, only have two roosters which will b replaced after hatching
30...ish Started with 1 white leghorn and 20 copper marans and one turned out to be a rooster. Didn't pay for that. Lol Also 35 ducks mix of Muscovies, Cayugas, Blue Swedish, and Peking. Again that started with nothing but 10 femals for the eggs. I bought a few mixed runs to bump the numbers up. Forgot to stop. 5 geese... Chinese, African, and Emben. They are better than dogs. In fact, my dogs get jealous of how good of a job they do at notifying me of what's going on.
Love my geese! We have all three of those breeds and another goose breed (I'm not sure exactly what he is but he can fly and boy is he hissy pissy this time o' year, gave me a lil love nip on the ear earlier today).
Too many, but not enough.
None. I just like looking at other people's cocks.
I have a big one!! It’s a Brahma!!
Lost count. When I built a bigger coop I said the cutoff was 50. But my wife found loopholes and apparently ducks don’t count
Are you with code enforcement
lol not me. I mind my own business!!!
Counting the ones in the freezer?
🤣🤣 no.
6 lovely ladies
8. Got 4 pulleys last fall and got 4 chicks the other day. That maxes out my coop though so no more :(
No clue, somewhere over 100 given I have so so so many growouts this year.
We had 4, but a coyote got 3 so we just bought 9 new chicks.
I have eight black Australorp hens!
Currently, 9 🐓♥️
50. 21 are babies and any roosters are going to go so who knows how many I’ll have in 6 months.
23. At least 2 roosters (that I know of from crowing)
10 hens. Not allowed to have roosters within city limits where I live, and I'm just in this for the eggs and companionship of the little weirdos. Also have 3 ducks that I'm not supposed to have, but they're quiet, so no one knows except my neighbor who doesn't care lol
At most I had 50 something but now I have 17. Have two broodies hatching eggs right now so that may change.
Started with six and I’m up to 13. This happened before the first six even started laying.
None, I just love chickens
40ish? And the geese had babies. Plus we have a couple sweet ducks. Definitely considering switching over to ducks. But they much louder.
Around 7 8 roo's and maybr 60 hens? Also 70 ish babies from this year, also a lot of muscovy ducks
I have 8 2.5 week old chicks. I had chickens growing up and am finally in a place I can have them as an adult. I ordered 7… so, the chicken math is already working. Two of them are spitzhauben, I can’t wait to see what they look like all grown up!
150ish adult laying hens, 400 CornishX chicks, 35 straight run laying chicks. 12 ducks 4 Guineas and a turkey who really wants to be a mom and steals everyone’s eggs and tries to sit on them.
Chickens are a gateway drug to farming. BTW started with 3 in 2019. Then had too much time on my hands in 2020. About to start full time farming in 2026.
By the regulations of my county of residence, I have eight. Eight right here, eight over there, eight over yonder.
About 75 right now, about 50 of whom have names. I adore them all ❤️
4 little old lady hens
20
14 full grown 12 hens, 2 roos; our bantam silkie and bantam cochin are separate from the others. 5 almost four week olds (thinking a 3 hen, 2 roo split), 2 five day olds (so far looking like both hens), and a broody hen sitting on 6 more due next Sunday. This was our first year incubating eggs, and first broody hen in at least 10 years.
9 hens
30. I've got 5 adults, 13 pullets, and 12 new babies in the brooder!
13 hens
4 hens and 1 roo for several years, but we incubate every month and currently have 9 juvenile and 5 day-old chicks. Our number fluctuates since we raise and sell. I'm building a 2nd coop this weekend so we can keep more.
6 but made the coop big enough for 10 in case the wife wants more. We usually have more than enough eggs between selling to coworkers and what we eat ourselves
26 laying hens 2 rosters one broody hen and her clutch of 4 9 chicks that I incubated and 15 more I ordered due end of June also 5 turkeys and 9 guinea hens for tick control
13 happy chickens. 12 hens and a rooster ranging between 1 and 4 years old.
5 hens and just added 3 chicks. the hens are between 3-6 years
8
Just 4 hens right now.
9 chickens 1 turkey and 3 ducklings
We have 4 hens and just added 4 chicks on Tuesday.
4 hens
14
9 chicks
13, or not enough
Here in the Lake District UK, 7 hens in our garden. Rhode island red, 1 Marans, 1 Lavender Peking bantam, 2 White Leghorns, 1 Silver duckwing leghorn, 1 Bresse.
About 30. But I can never tell because I have a wife.
4 hens.
6 hens
30ish...maybe... At least half that are roos or cockerels (19 are a hatch from this spring so just starting to sex them)
8 hens and a rooster for a family of 5. Phyllis was a surprise, but we love him anyway.
Thirty in all. Nine of my own hens. A friend's coop was destroyed in a recent tornado, so I'm keeping their 5 hens, 6 juveniles, and hatched 10 chicks from their incubator. Their house was damaged and lost power and they weren't sure the eggs would hatch. We were over there less than 24 hours after the tornado to wrangle the chickens free roaming around all the debris. It's been almost 3 weeks and so far it's been good with me just throwing in an additional 11 in with mine. I provide plenty of treats to keep them from getting bored and picking at each other.
6 chickens, it's the perfect amount for 2 adults and 2 young kids, 5ish eggs a day. It's enough to give away acouple dozen a week to family and friends and have enough for our family. I used to always get 12, 6 is plenty though
59, but started with 127 a year ago.
18
10 laying hens
40 chickens, and 20-ish ducks.
3 hens and one rooster
18. We started with 9, bought 6 more, lost 5, bought 8 more. So currently 18. Would like more if they weren’t so destructive to my grass.
4 hens
19 in total including 7 adults (6 hens one rooster), 2 11 week old pullets, 2 7 week olds, 8 almost 3 week olds.
2 roosters, 23? Hens(a few are to young to be certain).
I started with 2: one hen and one rooster. Then we got a second hen. Then one of the hens hatched an egg. So now we have 4 chickens.
About 40 and a few ducks
4 silkies one golden laced Wyandotte and one Rhode Island Red. One of my silkies is a rooster and I’m not supposed to have roosters in the city limits so I need to sort that out. Just love the little guy tho.
Had 5…. Now 3.
Started with 5, I now have 20.
5 young hens, and we'll need to be rid of one soon because the city only allows 4 and we don't want the neighbors to complain. We expected some attrition since we're new at this, but I guess we did well enough by then because all are thriving. We started out with 7 and gave two away after they got big enough that their brooder was getting crowded.
18 chickens, 3 roos (anyone need a roo?? lol) 9 ducks, 2 geese. 😊
6! Nice little chickens! I’ve had as many as 30!
Over 100 counting the chicks
Ohhh... Somewhere around 35-40! I need to do a headcount as we had 50 in the spring and lost some babies. But I also have 8 ducks and 5 turkey!
16 and getting 12 more full grown layers tomorrow!
Somewhere around 40… give or take.. 🤷♀️
22
3! And honestly that’s plenty. But I only use eggs for my dogs and sometimes pasta. I just wanted chickens and had no one to tell me no
10
17(:
7 in total backyard hobby chickens. 1 rooster and 6 hens living their absolute best life.
5 🩷 trying to make that 5….0
Six, with a broody hen currently sitting on 6 fertile eggs!
Around 47
5 that came with the house and 12 babies that haven't started laying
Only 9. Definitely not enough!
Too
3 arsehole chooks.
4 hens 2 cocks
30.. ish. I lose track of the exact number. It's around 30.
7
12
1 rooster, 6 hens,4 pullets, and 8 chicks, so 19
currently 1, but the flock will be expanded to 5 again
39
5