How Much Time Do You Spend Caring For Your Chickens On Average?

[SmartyChick]

For cleaning/feeding I would agree with everyone and say about 30 min. You could probably do everything once a day BUT.......
I visit my girls several times a day, I collect eggs because if I let them go all day SOMEONE will step on them and bye bye eggs.

I mostly just visit for chickie love

and cause I need to get a life...

 

[77horses]

I take care of my only-child baby chick, Ivory. She's still too young to go outside and it's still a bit too chilly, so I clean out her brooder box about once every two weeks. Sometimes less often, sometimes more, depending on how much of a mess she makes (which usually isn't that bad). As for spending time, I spend all my time with Ivory that I can (except for when I'm at school...but when I wake up in the morning, I say hi and make sure she has food and water before I leave, then I rush home everyday to see her and I take her out and let her run around in my bedroom.

I see our other chickens at my dad's house on the weekends, and it depends on how dirty their coops are that I clean them. I feed them everyday (morning and evening) and I fill their water dishes whenever they run out of water. So it depends.

 

[Bandit]

I only have four adult chickens right now. Sometimes in the winter I just spend 15 minutes in the morning feeding and watering them, then maybe 10 minutes collecting eggs and giving treats, then closing the coop up at night. But when it's nice out I can hang with the chickens all day, which is what I did today. They "helped" me plant onions by digging up all the worms and bugs anywhere in the vicinity and hanging out with me. So it's what you make of it. If you want pets, then you will spend longer. If you want egg producers or meat, you will do the bare minimum.

 

[Dixiedoodle]

I have 9 girls and I spend about 20 minutes actually cleaning. I just use cat litter scoops and scoop all the poo off the dropping board and then rake the coop to fresh it.. I fill waterers and feeders as needed. But as others state--I spend maybe another 2hrs.. Giving them treats, watching them, doing little things in/around the coop while they free range.. Too many predators not to be close when they are out!

 

[Ross Ranch]

Minimum requirement is about 20 min for 4 chickens. Minimum includes feeding, watering, poop scooping and collecting. Mass coop cleaning is about 1 1/2 hrs. On nice free days we hang with them outside for most of the day. Loving the nice weather this week with the girls

 

[math ace]

Mon - Fri , We spend 20 minutes a night feeding, watering, and observing the chickens. We have 17 Chickens in two different pens.

Saturday and Sunday, we spend off and on an hour each day either cleaning they coops, feeding, watering, or HOLDING the chickens.

Ours are pets who give us eggs too.

 

[Kittymomma]

About 15 minutes a day for food/water/egg collection and an extra 30 minutes once a week to clean the coop. I spend a lot more time then that fiddling around the barnyard and enjoying watching them and the other critters, but the actual neccesities don't take very long. Oh, I have 25 chooks at the moment.

 

[RockwaterFarm]

About 45 minutes.

 

[ChickenCat]

Let's see..... morning... put feed in calves' pan, fill water, put hay out for horses, spread scratch for chickens, open their pop door, say "Good morning Girls". too dark for them to come out. Total: 15 minutes.
Evening...... spread scratch and kitchen treats, fill waterers and feeder, flip shavings in coop, collect eggs, talk to the girls looking each over, pettin the ones that will allow it. Good 45 minutes if good weather.

If bad weather, I can do it a lot quicker.

I do deep litter method, so I spend 15 minutes each month adding DE and new shavings. Twice year it takes me 1.5 hr to completely empty old bedding and add new.
Hours spent watching either sitting on the back porch or through the windows! Priceless!

 

[Teresaann24]

I have to say from day to dark most the times.

In the summer ALOT! I always find odd jobs that has to deal with doing or making something for them better.

On Average tho From feeding/water/cleaning/Egg collecting about 3 hours to 4 hours a day.