Official BYC Poll: How Long Have You Been Keeping Chickens?

[BYC Project Manager]

Keeping chickens is not only fun and easy but extremely beneficial! Chickens can be an amazing resource for food and entertainment, and keeping chickens is an effective step towards self-sufficiency.

So: How Long Have You Been Keeping Chickens?

Please place your vote above, and elaborate in a reply below if you used to keep chickens but no longer do.

Further Reading:

• How To Raise Chickens
• Why Chickens? 10 Quick Facts On the Benefits of Raising Chickens
• The Pros and Cons of Raising Chickens

(Check out more Official BYC Polls HERE!)

 

[Sheltona01]

Just over 9 weeks now! We raised them from fluffy just hatched chicks. I can honestly say they are the best entertainment, and having have raised them, they are so snuggly.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

16 months (in 4 days) from the beginning of my chicken journey.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

9 1/2 years. I still have my first hen, and she still lays about once a month.

 

[HappyClucker7]

I have had chickens for almost 5 1/2 years now.

 

[3KillerBs]

~ 8 years, but I had a long, chickenless stretch when I was working long hours and didn't have time for them.

 

[77horses]

Keeping chickens is not only fun and easy but extremely beneficial! Chickens can be an amazing resource for food and entertainment, and keeping chickens is an effective step towards self-sufficiency.

So: How Long Have You Been Keeping Chickens?

Please place your vote above, and elaborate in a reply below if you used to keep chickens but no longer do.

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Further Reading:

• How To Raise Chickens
• Why Chickens? 10 Quick Facts On the Benefits of Raising Chickens
• The Pros and Cons of Raising Chickens

(Check out more Official BYC Polls HERE!)

I started raising chickens with my family in like 2010, and have helped raise them on and off since then. Went to college for a few years so that was when I was the least involved with them. So technically, I’ve been raising chickens (albeit not my own) for a total of 7-8ish years, but finally had my own first flock for the last 3 1/2 years.

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

9 1/2 years. I still have my first hen, and she still lays about once a month.

I love the fluffies in your profile pic! Are they yours!!!?? I have dyed one of my Silkies pink before.

 

[topochico225]

14-15 years!

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

2 years, 7 months... There was no inbetween vote so I just picked 1-2 yrs.
Bad start to chicken keeping though the lady I bought them from used my inexperience against me, all 3 died in the end from genetic illness I suspect interbred way too much. I got more off her too, only 1 remaining a 9 year old hen (I got a rooster from someone else and bred them so I have more)