Do you count your chickens before bed?

[Mouthpear]

I used to go and say good night to the flock and yes count. But I no longer have them. They were taken by vagerants that loiter in the lot behind my property.

 

[mandymcg05]

Oh man... I thought I was a weirdo when I started doing this. (PS- I have severe anxiety) I count mine MULTIPLE times before I lock the hatch, and they aren't even in the run yet lol. I've been counting them non stop since we brought them home. I have 18 in our coop and 6 in our brooder... I'm a little obsessed with the counting lol.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

I only have 5 tiny chicks... but I swear it's like one goes invisible, so I freak out and wonder if one flew out of the bunny hutch when it was open! (They haven't...yet).

 

[ramzroost]

Every night! I have 13 and count them each night, close up the coop. Every morning I open the coop and let them out into the run.

 

[Finnie]

I have 56 adults (chickens, ducks, geese) and 102 chicks and juveniles. I don’t count the chicks in the brooders and grow out areas. If no one’s dead, I assume they are all there. I do count all the adults in various coops, which have 10 or less.

But in my main coop, which has 20-30 adults and almost that many juveniles that have graduated from the brooder, it’s too hard to put eyes on each one at night. Most of them sleep in clumps. I do glance around and make sure my favorites are accounted for. Sometimes that means I have to push some apart so I can look between and under them. It’s too hard to count all of them that way. I figure if there’s no sign of trouble and no one is still wandering around outside when it’s time to close up, then they’re probably all in there.

 

[nashua]

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.

I count them during the day and like you, from a camera at night!

 

[Rosdez31]

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?

I count them every night at bedtime

 

[Thayer]

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?

 

[Thayer]

I count them during the day and like you, from a camera at night!

I count chickens roosters and duck before bed everynight

 

[Goldmoon]

Our motto is "No chicken left behind" head count every night in both our coops and a double check of both runs In case we didn't count correctly.