Chicken Math - I don't even have chickens yet

[Cyneswith]

This sanity talking here. As time goes on... you find even more, and circumstances aid and abet you getting more. Start out with less, get just one of the BO.'s Next year add a couple more, 3rd year, cull and add. This keeps your flock young and healthy.

Such a fun hobby, but nothing causes more problems and ruins it more for people than too many chickens for a set amount of space.

If you choose to disregard this advice, I won't feel bad, as I fight with this all the time. I KNOW what I should do, but.... Recently a predator worked to get me back in line. My granddaughter said, "Oh well, we should get new chicks!" Yeah, I start 'em young.

Mrs K

I'm ordering sexed chicks online so I can get rid of all extras at the same time (rather than repeatedly replacing locally available straight run cockerels), but it is a minimum order of 7 chicks, which is why the extras.

 

[FatHenAssociation]

I have 10 total - 2 buff orpingtons, 2 blue ameraucanas, 1 barred rock, 1 white leghorn, 1 golden laced wyandotte, 1 rhode island red, 1 black australorp, 1 golden comet. My husband says we are at full capacity yet we both still dream of the day we can have other breeds. Lavender orpington, silkie, speckled sussex, etc. Then I find myself dreaming of a day when I can take in battered hens.

April marked one year of us owning chickens. I laughed when Facebook brought up my memories - I had posted about us getting our fourth and ~final~ hen. Little did I know .