How do you count your chickens?

[annie3001]

i count ours by breed type. I have 3 that are all the same rir. so i count them as their personalities.

 

[SallyF]

I just count legs and divide by two. The hard part, at my age, is remembering how many I'm SUPPOSED to have by the time I finish counting.

 

[gritsar]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that counts by breed, age or color.

 

[call ducks]

I don't count i just kind of "have a look around" if anything seems out-of-place then i well count

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

Big girls (3 reds, 3 non-red

) Little Girls ( 2 LB, 1 Silkie) New Medium Girl (1 BSL) = 10

 

[HHandbasket]

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I notice you said WHEN you get more, not IF you get more! Good on you for recognizing that chicken math will soon overcome you & you will be powerless over the cute widdle fuzzybuttz...

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

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I notice you said WHEN you get more, not IF you get more! Good on you for recognizing that chicken math will soon overcome you & you will be powerless over the cute widdle fuzzybuttz...

It always does

 

[mississippifarmboy]

I seldom count because I'm really better off not knowing how many I have.

But when I do count, I count by breed and count by two's. 2,4,6.... Then because there are so many of them and the little buggers are so fast I just get a close count then round it up to the nearest ten. In January when I sold the flocks down due to my health I thought I had around 400.




I was under counting by 18.

 

[homesteadmomma]

Before I separated roosters I just waited until they were up for the night and did a quick head count. If I got the wrong number I counted by breed. Now I go out and count what I have separated into a rooster run. There are 21 in there, and I wouldn't be too upset if something ate the evil barred rock roos, so about once a week I count, and if they are there I don't worry. Then I have 13 chicks and 2 keets in the brooder pen, that I do by color. Then I have the more secure coop and run with my pullets and one rooster of each breed that I would like to keep, that will eventually be separated into breeding pens one of these days. They get counted by breed and I don't leave until I get the correct count every night.