HOW to know when to order more?{update}

[Mahonri]

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click it and put in the credit card info. I think that's the next step.

you can do it!

 

[gritsar]

*Ut hum* The voice of reason here. Empty the cart. Get your ducklings, get them settled in. Then once you are comfortable handling them and the current chooks, maybe get more chicks later in the spring.
It's far too easy to be sucked in by the cuteness factor of chicks and find yourself suddenly overwhelmed. At that point the chickens become a chore, not the joy they should be. Also, IMO your spouse should be on board 100% before bringing new animals in. He has to live there too.
I've waited two years between my first flock and my soon-to-be second one, that will arrive in May. I can now take care of the chickens in my sleep and have total confidence in my care of them.
Just another side of the coin.

 

[cackler]

Ms.FuzzyButts :

Just my opinion, but I think you may have come to the wrong place to ask if you should get more chickens...

I feel your pain though!!

I say go for it. If you have luck like me - you'll have a loss somewhere along the line.
I too have a small flock - 6 guineas (don't ask

), 2 barred rocks, 7 RIR and 10 Black Austrolorpes.
I've only lost 2 to predators and 1 to who knows what, but it's probably a good idea to get at least a couple more.
Don't empty your cart.

 

[annie3001]

omg you are very right gristar. the fact is i dont have my 2 new ducklings yet.
knowing chickens, i figured id settle them in quicker.
now i am at the credit card part.. ugh...
i would have to get up to get my pocketbook
yes its both of us making these decisions for our animals.
ugh!
thanks , ,,,, need to make more lil comments to him...
hes in the other room,.,,... not checking on me,, making faces

 

[Mahonri]

yeah, gritsar is the voice of common sense and reason here.

Unless you live on a farm and have lots of room!!

 

[annie3001]

I have not done anything! When i do !!!!! i will let you all know. thanks gristar, perhaps you are very right. (now the hubby is sitting in the living room, across from me. ) he said hes going to check my recent posts on byc.. (he will then know)


to be honest......(for now)

 

[gritsar]

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Yeah, if only the commercial houses hadn't been torn down a few years ago I could have somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 chickens

Still, I'm a patient person. Someday there won't be a square inch of these 80 acres where you can walk without stepping in chicken poo.
I still say go slow, build up a little at a time. If that makes me a BYC outcast, so be it.

 

[annie3001]

 

[happyhensny]

Well, in April os 2008 we got our first 8 chicks, at this moment we have 27 hens, 4 Roos, and are planning to fill 2 bators on Saturday (up to 90 eggs), it's like a snowball, just keeps getting bigger!

 

[enola]

At this time last year, I had one chicken, a hen. Then I went to see Nadine and brought home an Araucana rooster.(My gift to me on my birthday). Then I added an incubator and a brooder.

Soon, I bought a barred rock hen and a partridge colored something-or-the-other. I bought some Cuckoo Maran eggs to hatch. Added some Leghorn, EE, and SL Wyandotte chicks.......

Now, I have 2 brooders, 4 breeding pens and probably over 100 chickens of all ages, sizes and colors.

I am selling laying hens, young roosters, trios to create your own olive eggers with, pullets that will lay "chocolate" eggs when mature, and pullets that will lay blue eggs when mature.

And I must not forget the "FRESH EGGS FROM NATURALLY FED ANTIBIOTIC FREE HENS".

Roosters that are not sold are butchered by a friend. I feed and raise them, he butchers them and gives
half of them back to me.

And I am selling dried chicken litter in the feed bags that the feed came in.

Moral of the story ? Unless you are motivated enough to make all this work, you better listen to GRITSTAR....