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[TheReidHomestead]

You all are making me feel better cause your lists are longer than mine!!!

I counted the other day and have the following:

Breeders:
Pair of Blue/Black English Orps
1 Lav Orp Roo over 3 Lav Orp pullets
1 Lav Orp Roo over 2 Black English Orp pullets
Pair of LF Lav Ameraucana
1 Lav Ameraucana roo over 1 mixed Marans hen
2 Crele OEGB roo's over 3 hens
1 BLRW roo over 4 hens
1 Black Bantam Cochin roo over 3 blue/black hens

Layer Flock:
15 misc hens
1 Lav Bantam Cochin Roo

Grow Out pens:
5 blue/black cochin bantams
2 Serama
1 Black BLRW cockerel
3 Barnvelder pullets
3 Black Ameraucana pullets
2 Olive Egger hens and 1 roo

Brooders:
6 Serama
2 Crele OEGB
3 Split Black Ameraucana
1 non split Black or Blue English Orp
7 Black Split Orps
2 Lav Orps

Just Locked Down 14 eggs last night
Have 2 more batches in the incubators with around 35 more eggs going......

 

[elieugene6]

Counting isn't bad its when you add that its bad. I count every night to make sure everyone is where they belong. However I don't know how many I have total and I am not going to try and figure it out. I moved in last year and there were 3 chickens already here and 3 geese. Then I bought 6 at tsc last year 3 were roos and 2 got eaten. Only 2 of the originals from tsc are left one roo and one hen. I however am fairly certain that I am close to 100. I count by small groups every night. For instance:
small shed
2 black bantam cochins (pr)
1 wc black bantam polish hen
3 self blue bantam cochins (trio)
2 gold laced bantam cochin pullets
2 red bantam cochins (pr)
1 white mixed roo with a date with the freezer

Main coop
1 golden comet roo
2 golden comet hens
3 dekalb amberlink hens
1 black jersey giant hen
1 production red
3 dark cornish look like all roos
1 americauna/silkie cross pullet
3 supposed to be blue wheaten (trio, but ee)
2 ee hens
2 ee roos with a freezer date
1 black jersey giant rooster

grow out pen
9 cornish x
2 light brahma (pr)
3 mille fluer d'uccles (trio)
3 gold sebrights (2 roos and pullet)
2 white ee
2 mixed roos huge with freezer date in the future
2 red sizzles
1 white and black mixed roo
1 buff orp roo?
1 silkie orp mix

basement
1 white silkie polish mix
1 cuckoo? silkie
1 mille fluer d'uccle roo, handicapped
1 lf mix roo, handicapped
1 silver sebright, handicapped
3 white things, silkies I believe
5 self blue things, bantam cochins and lf orps
2 black chicks, 1 olive egger and the others a mutt
6 jersey giant chicks
2 royal palm poults
1 old english game pullet, i think
1 paint mutt chick
1 size a serama that is the same size at 8 wks as wk old chicks

living room in 20 gallon tank
3 black or split to self blue bantam cochin chicks
1 self blue bantam cochin chick
1 splash silkied americauna

mudroom
2 cortunix quail
1 paint lf? polish hen?
2 older welsh harlequin ducklings
1 mix gosling
1 younger welsh harlequin duckling

Geese
1 chinese gander
2 pomeranian geese one with 1 mixed gosling
4 chinese goslings
1 pomeranian gosling

hatcher
2 dozen eggs
-royal palm
-guineas
-mixed eggs
-black, split and self blue bantam cochin eggs

incubator
muscovy eggs
mixed goose egg
sussex eggs
ee egg
mixed egg
self blue bantam cochin eggs

ready to go into the incubator
12 mixed eggs

to be mailed to me
mixed cochin eggs
2 entries from the may egg swap

 

[NEK38583]

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I almost did. I know I am probably forgetting something. What is bad I am still adding more. I will probably be on one of this horder shows within the next couple of years.

 

[itsiebitsiefarm]

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LOL My poor, poor, polish hens. They have no man, of their own breed for them.

Mary, I WILL be placing them soon. I have them in, with my bantam partridge frizzle cochin roo, right now. Making some VERY VERY cute little babies. Once I'm able to find some partridge cochin hens for him, I will let you know....as I will be placing them, at that time...since I don't breed polish.

You have seen the pretty silkie/polish babies, they made for me. These little frizzle mixed chicks, are just the cutest!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

Did I miss final totals on all those counts?
I see everyone's list then I start feeling better about mine......I guess I will do one too tonight when I go out.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

I don't think I have over 100 now........I did have.....


I still did not count, but I can tell you I have these in adults, youngsters, & chicks:

Silver Sebrights
Old English Games
Silkies
EEs
BSLs
Bantam Cochins
SLWs
BLRWs
Marans
Barred Rocks
Golden Comets
BTW Japanese Bantams

I know I have missed some....especially those lil chicks I have gotten from TSC's bantam bin & those in the incubator & hatcher.

I may have 100 total chickens. MAYBE..

Quail, turkeys, and ducks out the wazoo, too.



If not for the dog killing so many, I would be at 150!!!!!!!

ETA: Feed bill........ I will say just in chick/turkey/quail/duck food, I go through about 700-800 lbs a month. Depending on how many chicks & ducklings I have at the time.

 

[Sebrightmom]

I am not even going to count my chicks. Then my husband will know how many I actually have. Not good.

Now he just see a group of them not numbers.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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[QuailQT]

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I can soooo relate to this! I do the same thing!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I don't even understand why they care how many we have. I mean, I build all the coops, runs, tractors and do all the feeding, watering and poop shoveling. Why do they think they need to keep track? My DH thinks I have 500 chickens, I am sure I don't have that many. Anyway, I enjoy them, even if he doesn't . So he gets to go on vacation and I don't . Well, vacations are over rated anyway. All that driving, bah, who needs it? I have coops to build so I sure won't be bored. Today I almost finished the run I have been working on. Just add.hinges, a lock and a few trim boards so coons can't reach in small slots where the run attaches to the coop. Trenches done, wire stapled on, top done. 8'X8' square. And I am putting in a chicken garden so grass will grow. Did you ever notice those poultry staples are just a little too short to nail in without bashing your fingers? I have an electric stapler, but it is getting old and the staples don't go in far enough
I don't trust those flimsy staples much anyway.
Saturday is the poultry auction in Scotts Hill. So I will load up the truck with surplus roos and go have fun looking at more chickens
Wanna go?