how old are we all??

[ktkoenig6]

and how old were you when you first started raising chickens?

i just turned 16, and got my chick Callie march 6 of this year. i love her

my family has had chickens before, when i was little and growing up. like at various times when i was ages 5 and under.

 

[wegotchickens]

Old enough to know better and young enough to want more chickens

I was a teenager this first time I tended chickens, bit that was a BUNCH and on a farm.
This time I'm no spring chicken and have 16 adults and 20 chicks (at the moment)

 

[ktkoenig6]

Quote:
haha i like that

 

[Serrin]

I'll have to chime in with Wegotchickens and say that I'm certainly old enough to know better. Certainly old enough to know what I was getting myself into with chickens, and yet I went ahead and did it anyhow!!

We have a total of 27 chickens ranging in age from 7 weeks to 4 years. We have 9 adult birds, 8 hens and 1 roo, and 18 babies. 8 cockerels and 10 pullets!

We'll be adding another 6-8 chicks in May. It all depends on what hatches out of the incubator. Everyone, please keep your fingers crossed for all pullets! I don't even know what I'm going to do with the 8 cockerels I have now!

One for sure is staying....but the others.....

Maybe to new homes, maybe to the freezer.

 

[ktkoenig6]

not the freezer...

 

[chicken_china_mom]

I got my first chicken about 8 years ago when my kids father came home with this cute, fuzzy little black chick. I don't know what possessed him to bring it home, cause we lived in a Chicago suburb where chickens were illegal, and of course, the chick turned out to be a roo, and I kept him til he started crowing, and then I was forced to rehome him. But I missed having him around, so in 2008 I moved out to the country, just my mom, myself, and my 2 kids, and the neighbors across the street have chickens, and another neighbor down the block has chickens, so I figured I'd get my kids into 4-H and get some myself. It took me a year before I got any though. In April of 2009 I got my first chicks, and I was hooked. I have more than I can count right now, but most are meant to be sold, not kept. But I love raising the little fuzzbutts. I have eggs in the bator now, BLRW, Bantam Cochins, d'Uccles, and Seramas, not to mention goose eggs in my other bator, as well as the 45+ chicks I've already hatched out! And I'll hatch out more before the year is over. I love having the birds around, and I couldn't imagine my life without them.

 

[looptloop]

I'm 37. I just got my start this year. We moved out to the country homestead last fall. I've been waiting for several years to get chickens and goats!

 

[SmartyChick]

I was 15, but age isn't an immunity for the addiction!

 

[KDbeads]

Mom had chickens before I came along. Only time I didn't have chickens was from age 14 to 33.

 

[Zahboo]

I got chickens my freshmen year and have had them ever since. class of 2011!