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I'm not afraid to say that I'm addicted to broody hens. We have had ten broodys since March and unfortunately, we only have 8 chicks to show for more than 100 eggs set under broody hens due to excessive heat and skunks. Have the skunk problem fixed, the hot AZ summer should resolve itself fairly soon.

I currently have 2 broody girls, one to hatch in a couple of days and another that I just set 5 eggs under a couple of days ago. :)

I LOVE broody hens. If anyone wants broody hens, go with Dark Cornish (I'm sure there are others, like Silkies or Orpingtons) . We have 11 Dark Cornish currently and 80% have gone broody with two going broody multiple times in their first year. Great mammas and devoted to being broody. Love them!
 
It takes at LEAST a dozen eggs to feed my family and we eat a lot of eggs. I buy them 5 dozen at a time. I think we're safe. Haha. Plus my family wants some too. They are already putting in orders!!
 
We decided last year to get just a few chicks, picked up 6 black australorps from tractor supply. As far as I was concerned, that was more than enough, I didn't even like chickens! Or so I thought anyway, my grandparents had chickens when I was younger and I remembered having to take a broom in with me to collect the eggs because they were nasty little things. Once we got them home I couldn't resist their adorable chick charm... but in the back of my head I just kept waiting for them to turn mean. They never did, so when this spring rolled around I decided we would add just a few more to our flock, we had lost one hen to a predator and were left with 2 hens and 3 roosters, we needed just a few more egg layers i thought. My friend wanted some Black sex links, but not all 6 that you had to buy so we agreed to split them, there 3 more that should be good enough. Than I walked into TSC for chick feed and ohh look at the pretty EE's, they will give me pretty eggs! Lets get 12 of them just in case we get a bunch of roosters... and on it went. This time last year I had 5 chickens which I was still unsure I even liked... Now I have 73 and am itching to add more... don't worry I am fully aware now that I absolutely adore my chickens and may be just a little bit addicted. Chicken math is a very real thing.
 
hbea13109 said:
We decided last year to get just a few chicks, picked up 6 black australorps from tractor supply. As far as I was concerned, that was more than enough, I didn't even like chickens! Or so I thought anyway, my grandparents had chickens when I was younger and I remembered having to take a broom in with me to collect the eggs because they were nasty little things. Once we got them home I couldn't resist their adorable chick charm... but in the back of my head I just kept waiting for them to turn mean. They never did, so when this spring rolled around I decided we would add just a few more to our flock, we had lost one hen to a predator and were left with 2 hens and 3 roosters, we needed just a few more egg layers i thought. My friend wanted some Black sex links, but not all 6 that you had to buy so we agreed to split them, there 3 more that should be good enough. Than I walked into TSC for chick feed and ohh look at the pretty EE's, they will give me pretty eggs! Lets get 12 of them just in case we get a bunch of roosters... and on it went. This time last year I had 5 chickens which I was still unsure I even liked... Now I have 73 and am itching to add more... don't worry I am fully aware now that I absolutely adore my chickens and may be just a little bit addicted. Chicken math is a very real thing.
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Welcome!

I had to laugh. I bought 8 new chicks this spring. That was IT!! Well, through a series of unfortunate events, all but one of the chicks died or was killed by a predator. (I had a predator attack that got 4 of my chicks and three of my grown hens). I was so frustrated that I moved the one surviving chick (16 weeks old at this point) in with the big girls and ordered 25 from McMurray's. I got those plus two more for free, and they are 7 weeks old now. ALL of them are alive and it looks like most of them are pullets, as advertised. I think one of my leghorns and one of my EE's are roos though.

So, I went from 7 hens and 1 almost grown pullet to 35!

THAT'S how chicken math works!
 
Peeps61 said:
Welcome!

I had to laugh. I bought 8 new chicks this spring. That was IT!! Well, through a series of unfortunate events, all but one of the chicks died or was killed by a predator. (I had a predator attack that got 4 of my chicks and three of my grown hens). I was so frustrated that I moved the one surviving chick (16 weeks old at this point) in with the big girls and ordered 25 from McMurray's. I got those plus two more for free, and they are 7 weeks old now. ALL of them are alive and it looks like most of them are pullets, as advertised. I think one of my leghorns and one of my EE's are roos though.

So, I went from 7 hens and 1 almost grown pullet to 35!

THAT'S how chicken math works!
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chicksurreal said:
I'm not afraid to say that I'm addicted to broody hens. We have had ten broodys since March and unfortunately, we only have 8 chicks to show for more than 100 eggs set under broody hens due to excessive heat and skunks. Have the skunk problem fixed, the hot AZ summer should resolve itself fairly soon.

I currently have 2 broody girls, one to hatch in a couple of days and another that I just set 5 eggs under a couple of days ago. :)

I LOVE broody hens. If anyone wants broody hens, go with Dark Cornish (I'm sure there are others, like Silkies or Orpingtons) . We have 11 Dark Cornish currently and 80% have gone broody with two going broody multiple times in their first year. Great mammas and devoted to being broody. Love them!
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It is perfectly fine to have some or even a lot of chicks.
 

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