How many chickens can you have?

[GingerAndHerChicks]

We can have as many as we want, but our coop can only fit around 15. We have 14.

I'm realizing that we will be needing to expand our coop if I continue getting chicks. haha

 

[GingerAndHerChicks]

We can have as many as we want, but our coop can only fit around 15. We have 14.

I think 14 is perfect, not to many, and just enough.

 

[GingerAndHerChicks]

Limited only by 30 acres and my willingness to build coops for them. (Shuttered) factory farms all around me, I share their zoning - so if I wanted to build big quonset huts with monster fans at either end, and shove them full of birds, i could.

50-60 birds is my current comfort zone - though I have housing for more.

You have your hands full even with 50

 

[GingerAndHerChicks]

The max where i am at is 35....

I wonder if majority of people follow the max rules, so if its 35 around you, I wonder how many people have more then 35.

 

[GingerAndHerChicks]

We have between 90 and 140 chickens (eggs are hatching, moving some along, numbers are changing by the week right now), 1 special needs turkey and 12, soon to be 11 coturnix quail

That is a full on farm!

 

[GingerAndHerChicks]

My town lets you have up to six max. Currently, I have three. Started with six but one got bullied to death and I culled the two bullies. I like my small flock of three, they give me enough eggs, which is why I have chickens to begin with, no chicken math here!

3 was my number too when I started out, but quickly spiraled upwards when I found out how funny, adorable and smart they are. But I am so glad you found your happy little flock that works for you!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That is a full on farm!

We also have sheep, goats and horses too, but they're slackers. No eggs from them

 

[U_Stormcrow]

You have your hands full even with 50

Actually, I have my hands full with building my house. It keeps raining, and setting me back days, digging the foundations back out. In the long run, it will be worth it - but I picked about the worst possible design for going it mostly alone and suffering massive product delays. Took more than 2 months to get my ICF delivered - in which time we had a 20-year rainfall event which washed my hill into my dig. and last week, we had what would have been a 20-year rainfall event, if we hadn't just had a bigger one a few months earlier.

Taking care of 50 is no different than taking care of 10, I've found.

 

[GingerAndHerChicks]

We also have sheep, goats and horses too, but they're slackers. No eggs from them

HAHA! Goats are cute!!! I want a mini horse.

 

[GingerAndHerChicks]

Actually, I have my hands full with building my house. It keeps raining, and setting me back days, digging the foundations back out. In the long run, it will be worth it - but I picked about the worst possible design for going it mostly alone and suffering massive product delays. Took more than 2 months to get my ICF delivered - in which time we had a 20-year rainfall event which washed my hill into my dig. and last week, we had what would have been a 20-year rainfall event, if we hadn't just had a bigger one a few months earlier.

Taking care of 50 is no different than taking care of 10, I've found.

Congrats on the new house.!!! I have heard from the in laws how hard it is to get siding for the house now, and that goes for a lot of construction supplies.

I'm glad that 50 & 10 is very similar in care, because at the rate I'm going, I'll have 100 and a farm in a year. ha!