At what point do you have a chicken problem?

[Fredster]

For some time, I've not known just how many chickens we have. With the two back-to-back hatches we just had that added 41 new chicks, I *think* we have about 110 chickens.

Three coops, three yards, all with chickens...and another 42 eggs going into the incubator tomorrow or Thursday.


So when do we consider it "having a chicken problem?"

 

[JennsPeeps]

The first time you post a picture online, show a pic from your cellphone, or start a sentence with the phrase "my chickens...".

You have a problem.

 

[Chicken Lil]

Quote:

I'm in trouble than!!!

 

[ntiveheart]

i would say when you tell your spouse "there are no more eggs en route" when 6 folks have eggs in the mail to you, you have a problem.

when you HAVE to buy another bator to accommodate the eggs en route, you have a problem.

when you eat peanut butter for 2 weeks to afford bc marans eggs, you have a problem.

when you have 200 chicks brooding in the living room, you have a problem

when you qualify for a discount on poultry wire at the hardware store, you have a problem

when you have as many pictures of your poultry as you have of your children, you have a problem

need i go on?

 

[Zahboo]

LOL. When you auction off your kids for chicken scratch

 

[exsia]

Is having a 3 car garage full of brooders and incubator considered having a problem?

 

[Zahboo]

exsia, that's a little crazy... I'd do the same, but we ain't got a garage! I just have them in my Bedroom, I have as many as my nose can bear!

 

[old mill poultry]

When you just get excited by the thought of "chick days at the feedstore" and you have 100 hens in the hen house... you have a problem.

 

[Zahboo]

I keep calling the feed store.. "got em yet? : NO: WELL HURRY UP: We said we'd call..." My best friend works there. I used to work at the other one in town, but she laid me off

I guess in winter the business ain't good

 

[Fredster]

You guys make me feel like maybe I'm not in such bad shape after all.