How many birds are in your current flock?

[Jules929]

Since buying a small home on a 1/4 acre I have fought the urge to get chickens (for a year and half). A couple of months ago I decided that getting 4-6 would be nice. I ordered an incubator and hatching eggs and started designing a coop/run. Quickly realized I was kidding myself, so started redesigning for more room.
I have four 2 week old chicks, seven 1 week old chicks, and 14 eggs in the incubator, making 11 chicks and up to 14 potentials.

 

[DellaNTuff]

They do not all live in the same group but we currently have:
9 ducks (started with a trio and hatched some eggs)
10 bantams (started with a breeding pair and hatched and bought more)
8 2017 hatch chickens (used them to hatch many more laying hens and freezer rooster lol)
16 in first group of 2018 hatch they are laying already or very close to it.
10 pullets in a later hatch not ready to move to big girl houses but sexed
13 young roosters in feed out house
21 that are not yet sexed. We are keeping pullets eating roosters.
We have only 2 pure breeds old english bantam and breda fowl the rest are mix that I focused on egg laying and quality as well as vigor and just being enjoyable to have.

 

[sawilliams]

35 total, 25 in the main coop 10 cockerels in a seperate pen, possibly 13 cockerels that will go to freezer camp.

 

[Kessel23]

Last time I counted we had 81 chickens, 10 mallard derived ducks, 7 Muscovy ducks, and 3 turkeys. I think my dad started off our first flock with 25 chickens 16 years ago, one of them made it to 11 years old.

 

[chickendreams24]

Lol no not yet but I did say that list was only a partial list.

I was some bielefelders, Bresse, blue laced red wyandotte( I got some previously but had to cull in quarantine as they turned out to be sick), icelandics, hedamora, barnevelders and a host of other breeds.

I currently am growing out some welsummer pullets and two possibly white Californians but idk. We were told they were Leghorn eggs(a friend of mine hatched them for a school class). Interestingly they lack any black at all.

We've also had Brahmas(I would live some blue buff laced), speckled Sussex, and various other breeds but our groups of them have been small and often only female.

I did have a pair of Dominiques from an amazing line but lost then along with other birds to a fox this spring. Unusually our fox takes only 1-2 a day.

 

[BlueBaby]

Lol no not yet but I did say that list was only a partial list.

I was some bielefelders, Bresse, blue laced red wyandotte( I got some previously but had to cull in quarantine as they turned out to be sick), icelandics, hedamora, barnevelders and a host of other breeds.

I currently am growing out some welsummer pullets and two possibly white Californians but idk. We were told they were Leghorn eggs(a friend of mine hatched them for a school class). Interestingly they lack any black at all.

We've also had Brahmas(I would live some blue buff laced), speckled Sussex, and various other breeds but our groups of them have been small and often only female.

I did have a pair of Dominiques from an amazing line but lost then along with other birds to a fox this spring. Unusually our fox takes only 1-2 a day.

I have some young White Breese too, and I think that they should start laying egg's next month.

 

[BlueBaby]

We will process our birds ourselves. It's a big learning experience but my husband and I agree it's better to do it ourselves then send any birds away to the butcher.

I had no idea this was even a thing, but in our community apparently sending your birds to the butcher puts you at risk for getting the wrong birds back! Also I would rather my animals last moments not to be full of stress.

...we didn't set out to raise our own meat exactly, it just sort of happened and now I can't bring myself to buy meat at the grocery store.

I had someone come over here and paid them to cull the 3 roo's that are now in my freezer. I watched as they showed me the 3 different ways to cull them. I didn't care much for the chopping off of the head with an ax. Then they showed me the broom handle method. That seemed a little bit better. The best one was putting in the cone. But, I seen all of those neck feather's that they had to cut through to cut the neck. Now I am doing the Naked Neck's, so that part should be easier for me later on.

 

[RNPAULIE69]

I started with three pullets last year and still have three lol..boring I know

 

[Chickassan]

Eleven! After a bunch of rehoming boys and raising chicks and having a hen just cease to be iv'e ended up with eleven. Ten hens and a really chunky rooster.

 

[RodNTN]

I started with 6 birds, I now have 45 Here's my list of breeds:

Ayam Cemani's
Black Australorp's
Light Brahma's
Production Reds
Isa Browns
Black Sex Links
White Leghorns
Old English Game Bantams
Porcelain D'uccles
Easter Eggers
Buff Orpingtons
And many, many mutts!