Do you count your chickens before bed?

[Dottie the Chicken]

How many of you count your chickens when you put them up at night? How many chickens would it take for you to give up counting?

 

[Chicken Heel]

For me it was when I had a flock that exceeded 100 and ultimately I ended up with 142.

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

Haha

 

[pibb]

I count mine at night but I only have 8 plus some pullets I'm brooding. I don't quit counting until they are all accounted for. Why would anyone count part of them and quit?

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

I was talking about how many hens you would have before you gave up, like if you had 50 or more hens in one pen.

 

[Mrs. K]

Counting the dead ones is easy... and just assume if you don't have those, you have them all.

 

[rosemarythyme]

We always do a headcount at night. I felt bad for sending hubby out in snow and rain to do it in winter, so we put in a camera just to do nightly headcounts lol.

 

[Skyle]

I count them every night, but I only have 13 chickens in the coop

 

[GC-Raptor]

I have two coops, no auto pop doors and weather permitting I let them out of their pens to free range an hour before sunset.
So I do a headcount when I'm closing the coops after sunset.
The most chickens I've had were ten, 3 in one coop and 7 in the other, so easy to count them on the roosts.

My capacity limit between the two coops is twelve.
So as long as I don't get another coop with a capacity over 19, I'm good, as I only have 20 fingers and toes, and 1 finger is doing the counting.
So 19 chickens per coop/pen would be my limit to do a headcount. GC

 

[Tre3hugger]

I don't count them when they're all roosted up for night. I do habitually count them throughout the day though. Takes l;ess than 5 seconds and gives me piece of mind. Also gives me an idea of who lays what if I'm working outside ill keep tabs. I have 10 birds. If i only see 9 i'm more curious about who is laying which egg, etc. So I will go and investigate. Not because I think they are missing, but because I am genuinely curious and determines to learn their routines.