Overrrun with chicks!! How many of you have bought too many chicks!!??

[JennsPeeps]

I don't feel so bad anymore about having 5 chicks...

 

[simplyscrambled]

Ah, then my chick math is typical of the folks here!

I'm only allowed 6 chickens. I have 3.

So clearly I need to try and incubate 30 eggs!

I figured that if I'm lucky, with mostly shipped eggs, 50% will hatch. Then 1/2 of those will be roos. And I also get to choose 3 hens for the school's chicken coop! So I should only have 1 spare hen. And I should keep her, regardless of my limit, in case I lose one during the year from who knows what!

Perfect logic. Right??

 

[SportTees]

I definitely have to many!! 60+ Chicks and 9 Ducks. I'm trying to keep only 3-6 breeds of chicks but after I did my chick math I ended up with 17 different breeds. I definitly will have to get rid of some or cull cull cull later. They are just so cute!!

 

[AHappychick]

Hi my name is AHappyChick and i have way to many started out with 4 and thought that would be a lot now I have nearly a 100

 

[Lucky Ducky]

I counted once .... at that time I was at 99!

We've gotten more and we've got 3 more broody hens. Then there's the 2 broody ducks.

I haven't counted in a while, I'm scared to

! What I don't know, I can't share with my DH!!!!

 

[SportTees]

Quote:

but good alibi

 

[Caleb x49]

i have too many chcks. i have too little a coop t keep them in so i am building another

 

[wendid1]

So my friend thought it would be a good idea to raise some chickens, for the fresh eggs. We went to town and bought 3 of the cutest little chicks ever. Or so we thought. So her husband built us a little coop. We then decided we could wait for the chicks to start laying so we bought 12 laying hens, one giant rooster. It was chick days at the local Orschlens So once or twice a week we would go buy a few more. Then we discovered the farmers market. And bought more. To make a long story short it's only been 2 1/2 months and we have over 33 chicks ranging from 1 week to 10 weeks, 3 coops and building another one tomorrow AND were are still looking for Chickens.

 

[Mahonri]

I haven't done inventory in a while... lets see how well I know my flock.

1 Partridge Rock
1 White leghorn
1 Ca White X porcelain D'uccle
2 EEs
2 Black Stars
3 RIR
1 White Rock
1 Blue Ameraucana Roo
1 Blue (laced) Ameraucana hen (She really is breathtaking)... no eggs yet and she was born Sept.
2 White Leghorn Roos
2 CA white leghorns
2 Barred Rocks
2 Wheaten Ameraucanas
1 Golden Cuckoo Maran
1 Golden Cuckoo Maran roo
1 Speckled Sussex.

And then 5 week old chicks

1 Buff Ameraucana (I think it's a roo)
3 Splash Am.
1 Blue Am.
3 black Am.
1 Salmon Fav.
1 Miss_Jayne Designer chick DellieXLBLeghorn It's beautiful so I'm praying, pullet.
2 Wheaten Ameraucanas

YIKES!! I like all of them but the two leghorn roos.

 

[Becky_H]

This is my first year with chickens. I have 8 girls and 3 boys. obviously that ratio is Not A Good Idea. So rather htan getting rid of a roo, I'm getting him his own harem.

What? It sounds perfectly sensible to *me*. Just ignore the disgruntled man mumbling in the corner.