Farm chatter

[ChickForLife]

My pet chicken

Oh ya. Why not other places? They are way cheaper and have better options.

 

[HappyDuckie]

Well if you get a lot of chickens because you have a whooping 21 acres, it is okay to loose a few.

To me, it is never ok to lose any.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I think that 15-16 is about 30 ish total? But my question was, are you going to start with like 5 birds in each side then add more, or are you going to start with 15-16 on each side and be at max capacity from the beginning?

I'm getting about 12-13 Saipans next spring. Both as chicks, & eggs for hatching. I'll be starting with about 4-5 Sumatras. I need to get more pullets. My one Sumatra "Pullet" is a cockerel. So I have 2 cockerels, & 1 pullet Sumatra.

 

[CHlCKEN]

Well if you get a lot of chickens because you have a whooping 21 acres, it is okay to loose a few.

I personally cannot go through deaths like that. The chickens mean so much to me, it’s harder than it should be.

 

[black_cat]

Why?

It would be SO stressful for me! It's so dangerous!

 

[CHlCKEN]

Why?

They’d be gone in one day!

 

[ChickForLife]

*shudder*
Never

You are so luck to have that much land you could have so many birds! I only have a whooping 1 acre! Big whoop.

 

[HappyDuckie]

I have tons of predators too. I haven’t lost a bird in a very long time.

 

[CHlCKEN]

You are so luck to have that much land you could have so many birds! I only have a whooping 1 acre! Big whoop.

Not all of my land is open. Part of it is woods.

 

[ChickForLife]

It would be SO stressful for me! It's so dangerous!

They’d be gone in one day!

But if you have say hundreds on your land, it would be okay to loose a few. They wont all get eatten and if you have a dog, it will protect the flock, so will a rooster but not as good.