How Many Chickens are A Lot to You?

[Desirai]

to me.. like, more than 10!! haha

but that's just because I don't actually have any yet. I'm sure that will change when I get mine!

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Exactly 146 bantams and chicks. We are breeders.

 

[Frost Homestead]

for regular backyard chicken keepers I would say more than 50 is a lot.

 

[sonew123]

I have too many and I know it! 70+ but thats weaned down from 150 in the Summer-not letting anymore go! LOL

 

[FlockMama]

6chickens in St. Charles :

I have 13 bantams, but still don't seem to collect enough poop for my hope of perfect compost. I could use more. Maybe if they were standards, I'd have enough? But I thought, at first, that more than 10 would be "a lot". I was wrong.

Here they're wandering the front yard:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/25976_chickens_front_yard_black_vs_white.jpg

They don't seem to take up ALL the space I have. There's plenty of room. And when I wander after them with my pooper scooper over the driveway, I only get half a scooper full after 3 days' worth of wanderpoopin.

Next, I'll be building a sandtray under their roosts, and using a kittylitter scooper to collect sandy poops which I'll mix with fine pine chips from the coop floor. Oh, yes, that's a plan. For more of these:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/25976_zinnia_square_garden_around_maple_tree.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/25976_rose_inside_the_fence.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/25976_upright_front_thyme_garden_hedge.jpg

Chicken poop is like rocketfuel for roses. And, "scooping poop is therapootic" (found that here on BYC somewhere)

I found the bolded word above very funny

I don't think you could ever have too many! I only have 6 though

 

[quintinp]

A lot to me is around 75+

 

[AnimalsComeFirst]

25+ chickens is alot... I only have 3 hens right now.

 

[aoxa]

I would say 100 is a lot to me, but definitely not TOO MUCH. Over 200 would be a little more than I would want to take on. Not saying it will never happen. I really like to know my individual chickens. I like knowing their personalities and quirks. I might be able to keep a separate flock that would be for utility only (ie: eggs/meat). I really am not sure I would be able to take that on though.

 

[ChickensXOXO]

I have 4 Silkies, and to me, they don't count as chickens!

I also have about 30 other Bantams, and I wouldn't mind rehoming a couple.
I currently have too many cockerels, so I may pair them up and sell them later.

But to answer the question, a lot is more than you can handle.
And I can handle about 30.

 

[Magic Birdie]

75+