Chicken Math

[Iluveggers]

Okay, then I stared of with 2 splendid buff orpingtons! (sadly both passed away) but now I have 2 more baby buff orpingtons!

Aww I am sorry about your originals, but glad you were able to replace them!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I think I clicked the right number. I started with 6 CX, 6 Pekin (Ducks), 6 HH "Rainbows", and added 6 Comets and 6 Dark Brahma within a week or two. About 6 months later, I added 6 SLW. The highest count, inclusive of ducks was 85 or 87, and my current count is in my Sig. I'm once again culling down, but soon expecting more bunnies. Also, I need to take another goat to freezer camp.

 

[Shadrach]

I started with about 5000.
I worked for my pocket money on my uncles farm from about ten years old.
He had battery chickens and 30 or so free rangers. I helped with the battery hens for a while but my heart wasn't in it and after some instructions and a talk with my parents my uncle gave me the free rangers to "look after".
Mainly my job was to get the eggs. None of the roosters 5 or 6 usually were people friendly. Most days I got the eggs. Other days I couldn't get past a rooster and that was that for the day.

After college I worked with someone I knew who kept 200 free rangers with a variable number of roosters.

Since then about 30 has been the average.

Now it's around 20.

 

[NanaK]

Started out with 4 buff orpingtons. 3 were cockerels! Got 8 more chicks different breeds, all pullets! After that it's all a blur. I've had as many as 30 or so. Now I have about 21.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

When i started in 2011 i started with 6 and two ducks then a few weeks later got 6 more and another duck.... After then got a ton or orders from hatcheries throughout the years my biggest order was 56 from the cackle surprise and right now I have way more then i plan on keeping dont ask me a number i know i have 12 adults thats all I know

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Oh my counting was a bad idea...56 chicks lol

 

[RubelliteRose]

2 years ago, we only wanted 6 chickens. Sadly, one of our first 6 chicks died before she was a week old. We decided to replace her and the minimum from the feed store was 3 chicks. So within a week, we went to 8 chickens
The next year, we decided that we wanted more chickens and a male to help with protection and possibly breeding. We ordered 6 more chicks so that took us to 14. Before they arrived, Opal (bird in profile pic) was taken by a hawk. We were down to 13. The hatchery sent an extra male chick though, so back up to 14.
But one chick didn't survive the night and then both males had to be culled - one for severe scissor beak and one had massive seizure We were down to 11.
Last fall, I won 12 hatching eggs. The post office played kick ball or something with the box, but we hatched 3 chicks including one male Back up to 14.
This month, one of my middle girls went broody. She is currently sitting on 6 eggs. By the end of the month, we may have 20 chickens

 

[Flockincrazy]

I started with 25chicks 4ducks 6turkeys and 6geese then I kept adding and ended up with 86 chickens 14ducks we butchered the turkeys and rehomed the geese and then butchered and rehomed chickens I now have 47chickens and 14ducks

 

[Brooks_]

Started with 17 mail order chicks. Lost 1 first night, lost another to a predator (presumed, no evidence--maybe just lost), two were culled (behavior). Hatched some more, ate one. Currently at 21, one is invited to dinner, one is broody (6+/- eggs).

 

[SheaLoner]

Are you counting meat birds in this poll?
Started with 20 NHs and 9 layer mix from tsc. Ate the excess boys. Over wintered 15?ish and added more each year. Think Im at 14 layers, 10-15 young pullets, 5-10 cockerels and 2 flock Roos. And a batch of cx and Nh meaties.