How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens? - OLD

[broostertherooster]

1 1/2 years. So much fun, except for the predator part.

 

[draye]

I put in 1 year, but it has actually been almost 2 years this time around. I have been raising chickens off and on for the past 30 or so years. Started when I was about 5 or 6 years old from chickens given to me from my granddad (had he still been living he would have turned 100 this year).

 

[Pyncheon guy]

Raising poultry since 1958....showing and exhibiting poultry since 1967....

 

[PlatinumFarms]

Started with 10 pullets, 6 leghorns (3 buff & 3 brown), and 3 Patridge cochins. Loving it!

 

[tiki244]

I am not sure what to make of this data. But it is interesting that after 2-3 years there is such a dramatic fall in numbers and then such a dramatic rise in numbers at 20 years.

 

[Nic&Chickies]

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I don't know, but maybe another call to the vet? Is he/she a chicken-aware vet?
I must tell you, your post might be lost here. This is where one would post after answering the poll, which of course you did, but the part about your poor girl should be in the "Emergencies/Diseases/ Injuries and Cures" section. I hope the mods will move it, so it gets attention from some of our more experienced members.
Good Luck, and b.t.w.,

 

[yayasisterhood]

I got my girls, as chicks, on April 4, 2011. They were cute but now they are lovely girls and are laying. They are laying every day (sometimes one skips a day) and are supplying more eggs than we need so we are sharing with friends. (they are really glad to get them, and we are glad to share) We are trying to teach the girls that it is good to share. I think I read somewhere that the girls would not molt the first year, I hope that is true. I originally planned to move the coop and run around in the yard, but have expanded the sq feet, so it has become more difficult to move, now I will just have to carry fresh leaves and grass and other goodies to them. They really like scratching in the leaves, looking for some morsel to eat.

 

[bantyshanty]

I've been at BYC and chickens and chicken math since I ordered my first batch of fertile eggs in October 2010, by which I got 1 pullet & seven cockerel silkies.

This was followed by several more batches of silkie eggs, each one producing 1 pullet and many more cockerels

Silkie broodies and shipped eggs never produce many females for me, unless, of course, I give a dozen eggs to a friend to hatch, in which case, it's been all pullets to hatch. I somehow ended up with several dozen, only a few of which are silkies, two years later. It's great to see how many more people have joined recently and how active they are at research & postings on BYC!

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Hard to answer. I raised them in high school and then took a long hiatus. This time around, since February.

 

[goofy98]

lol most of them are under 6 months