Ordered 6 chicks-I only want 3-4 chickens-was that the right idea?

[white01]

got to love chicken math, over a year ago when i first decided only wanted 15, and absolutely no roos, i now have 36 hehe with eggs going in bator this week and i have 4 roos hehe

 

[limabean]

I think I shall commit to leaving my signature as is, so I can look back and laugh at it in future years...

 

[cazyaniamllover]

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same here

lol but really i did in anaiml math i'll have 2 pets soon 3 with chicks then 4 with rabbits

 

[momma2kids12chickens]

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Completely understand!! My daighter is doing a 4H project, started off with six. She is doing fancy chickens so I thought why not get some pullets, 6 more total of 12. Then I added 6 Silkies, staright run, not sure what we have yet, but hopefully 1 lady. 0 to 18 in 2 weeks. Coop is 4x8 so why not some fresh eggs.

 

[Theapplechicks]

my hubby always freaks out every year when I get a new bunch of 6 but 4yr later.... I'm down to 4 hens!

Had a few that ended up roos that we had to re-locate to new homes and the others were lost to preditors and one that litterally got scared to death when I was cutting the grass! (felt so horrible!!!) It's hard because we get very attatched, but truth is, they can leave us very quickly.... always better to have a few extra!

 

[limabean]

Oh jeez, I had not even thought of lawn mowing. I live on the corner of a somewhat busy street, so hopefully (since I am starting with day-olds) they will be well-acclimatized to ambulance sirens, fire-trucks, and the like.

 

[DTRM30]

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Scared to death from the lawn mower - Geeze ! That's horrible !

My girls won't get out of the darned way ! We have a little front loader/tractor and they follow it around - walking under it, behind it etc. We need to chase them out of the way so we can move ...

 

[GiddyMoon]

I wanted 5 to ten and am getting 25..you are doing much better than me!

 

[Pairie Faring]

Did the same thing! now the proud owner of 6 very healthy five week old chicks!

 

[desireefawn]

Haha, my SEVEN are doing just fine -- when all I wanted was 4, haha. Oh those silly chicks!