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Chaos18 said:
Oh yeah I'm looking to get somewhere between 3-9 chickens....depending on how many the kids and wife pick out....and me.....and how cute and fluffy they are....and.....oh nevermind you guys probably understand already.
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Hahah chicken math catches up with you. I just wanted 6 hens. Now I have 15 chickens, 14 hens and 1 rooster, in one pen. 2 silkies in another pen, and the silkie hen is sitting on 6 eggs. I have 2 free ranging roosters, and 2 free ranging guineas. In my duck run I have 7 ducks with a duck sitting on over 20 eggs. Inside I have 6 silkie chicks, 25 meatie chickens, and 6 turkeys. In the incubator I have 48 eggs (24 chickens and 24 ducks)

My advice would be to build a bigger coop than you think you need. You will find out that you will want different breeds of chickens. I love having different colors in the fridge. So many colors to choose from, white, brown, green, blue, olive green, pink. Good luck on your chicken adventure.
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barbiegirl said:
Hahah chicken math catches up with you. I just wanted 6 hens. Now I have 15 chickens, 14 hens and 1 rooster, in one pen. 2 silkies in another pen, and the silkie hen is sitting on 6 eggs. I have 2 free ranging roosters, and 2 free ranging guineas. In my duck run I have 7 ducks with a duck sitting on over 20 eggs. Inside I have 6 silkie chicks, 25 meatie chickens, and 6 turkeys. In the incubator I have 48 eggs (24 chickens and 24 ducks)

My advice would be to build a bigger coop than you think you need. You will find out that you will want different breeds of chickens. I love having different colors in the fridge. So many colors to choose from, white, brown, green, blue, olive green, pink. Good luck on your chicken adventure.
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Original intent was only for 2-3 chickens but the coop I'm building has a capacity of 9-10 for comfortable living and 12-15 if you really stuff them in there. :)
 
You can't have one, because it will get lonely. You can't have two because one might die. You can't have three because it's an odd number.
You can't have four because chicks are prone to birth defects, so you need to get extras to take their place.
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To clarify my earlier questions on building some type of chicken tractor: I thought that I wouldn't need to include a feeder on the tractor because I would be feeding inside the coop. Is this wrong? (I thought that some of you may have thought that I didn't intend to give feed at all.)
 
MotorcycleChick said:
You can't have one, because it will get lonely. You can't have two because one might die. You can't have three because it's an odd number.
You can't have four because chicks are prone to birth defects, so you need to get extras to take their place.
You can't have ...
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And this is precisely how I ended up with 30 chickens, 8 turkeys, 4 geese, 2 peafowl, 11 quail, 11 mear roos, 14 bbw turkeys, 20+ chicks in the brooder, an incubator that holds about 400 eggs, another cabinet bator coming from my aunt that holds around 300 eggs, 3 styro bators, and most of that first bator either full or getting there. It all started with 4 chicks & 2 ducklings that my then 4 yr old talked me into buying when we went into TSC for kitty litter during Chick Days 4 years ago.
 
If anyone is interested, my slate blue turkeys have kicked into overdrive and are laying like crazy. I've already hatched several and have a second batch in my incubator. $4.00 an egg, shipping will be USPS priority. Eggs will be double wrapped. Shipping cost would depend on how many eggs are shipped/box size. Most likely medium or large flat rate boxes. Send me a message if you are interested.
 
hendricks115 said:
If anyone is interested, my slate blue turkeys have kicked into overdrive and are laying like crazy. I've already hatched several and have a second batch in my incubator.  $4.00 an egg, shipping will be USPS priority.  Eggs will be double wrapped. Shipping cost would depend on how many eggs are shipped/box size. Most likely medium or large flat rate boxes. Send me a message if you are interested.
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7 of my dozen are still going. I always struggle with turkey. A week and a half to go.
 
chiques chicks said:
7 of my dozen are still going. I always struggle with turkey. A week and a half to go.
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I have a dozen that I need to candle in my incubator right now with a little over 2 weeks to go. I have 3 young turkeys from my first very early batch that are in the brooder along with 2 araucana chicks that came out of green eggs we bought at a farmers market around Easter for some photos (my hubby who is always telling me to get my chicken math under control is the one who insisted we put them in the incubator just for the heck of it!). I had 2 black poults hatch from the first batch that I set but neither survived.
 

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