Incidentally, look at how much freezer space you have available. My 50 chickens take up more than half of a gigantic chest freezer. It's a bigger freezer than most people have. It had to be special ordered because the stores don't keep that size in stock.
Unless you are de-boning the...
And I am trying to point out that it makes no difference how many chickens other families eat. I freeze 1/2 breasts and one of those feeds 2 of us. if you fry up an entire chicken and your family eats the whole thing in one meal, you need a lot more chickens than I do. 1 chicken that makes 4...
How many chickens a year does your family eat? If you want to raise all your chicken, that is how many you will raise.
I can't tell you how many to raise, since I don't know how many you eat.