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tinydancer87 - Thanks so much for sharing! It is lovely to hear of others successfully keeping their birds for life without drowning in chickens. May I ask how long you have been doing this, how many chickens you currently have, and how many of them still lay?

Oh, and Plottner - I guess I had just completely assumed that about the smaller breeds, I was thinking they were all similar to banties - smaller bird, smaller egg. Just goes to show what a noob I am still!

mkeawsh - I know! It is so hard to resist buying chickens, it is ludicrous! I try to tell myself that about free ranging them, and that it why I do it, even though I know we will eventually lose some and it will be hard, I believe it is still the way they should have lived. I guess we'll...

Kaitie09 - Hahaha I love the idea of a chicken "retirement village"! With their own kiddie pool and mealworm bar, perhaps? LOL And to Kaitie09 and allpeepedout - I also love that I am not alone in wanting to do this. so lucky - Very true! Doesn't quite cover their bills as much, but still...

I know, right!? Some chicken math! I'm glad you have worked things out so you are comfortable with it. You're right, though, not the solution for me. Our current 5 are all very sweet and they do make great pets. I have two little girls, a 1 1/2 year old and a 4 year old, and they simply adore...

Right now we have 1 Black Star, 2 New Hampshire Reds, and 2 Isa Browns. The 8 - 10 weeks old chicks we ordered and will be picking up in March are all Araucanas. I think at this point that it will be 3 years or so before we add any more to the flock, so I guess I will have to look into egg...

HEChicken - That's really interesting, I had assumed that they worked much in the same way we do in the egg department. Meaning, while we are born with as many eggs as we will ever have, we are only "producing" (ovulating) them for our fertile years, and will never actually use up our available...

Yeah, I am thinking that's what we'll be doing., maybe 5 every 2 or 3 years, depending on how many are laying at the time. I am not sure how many chickens is our limit, we have plenty of space and can build more coops and such if we need to, financially speaking is really where the limit will...

Chubby Chicken - We have been vegan for many years, (around 9 or so now,) and adding eggs via our own chickens was quite the adventure for us. I am totally comfortable eating our own chickens' (unfertilized) eggs because I know they are well cared for, there are so many loopholes, even when...

1muttsfan - I know, that's what I have been dwelling on lately, and occasionally become dizzied by. :) That's why I was hoping to hear from experience from someone that can tell me where they have actually ended up at. Maybe we can really just get 5 chickens every 3 years or so and still do...

StarLover21 - Oh! That's terrific to here. I thought the simply laid for a couple years or so and stopped. I have read that their natural lifespan is 10 - 15 years, but I wonder if most of them end up living that long? We free range ours, which is something I go back and forth on in my mind...

Hello guys, I was hoping to hear from others that do not kill their chickens... how does it work out? How many have you ended up with total if you keep all your chickens, and periodically get more so that you still have eggs? We are on our first chickens, we have 5, and will not be killing...