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)
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!
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.
