Last spring I got 8 chicks, bought 2 banty pullets later in the year. This spring I ordered 28 chicks, got 30, sold my EE roo, lost two chicks out of the 30, bought two more, bought a new SLW roo, sold 2 chicks, a friend hatched me two, sold 13 chicks, then bought 6 because it looked like one...