Poll: How many chickens do you have?

[LizzzyJo]

I am always curious of people's flock sizes! On average - how many chickens do you keep?

Comment down below about your number of roosters vs hens!

Comment down below on how many meat birds you cycle through in a given year!

Are you actively seeking to increase or reduce your number?

inquiring minds want to know!

 

[Chickenman MAN]

Just got the 4 ex bats

 

[LizzzyJo]

Just got the 4 ex bats

You're a kind hearted man! Those poor girls need understanding people and lovely lives.

 

[HappyDuckie]

I currently have 23. 3 boys, and 20 girls. I'm getting 40 more in the spring.
Not sure how many meat birds go through in a year. We raised ten last year, but this year we will likely just butcher cockerels for meat. Maybe a few more CX.

 

[Anne02]

Right now I have 26 chickens. Six are in a smaller coop up near my house, and the other 20 are in a pasture down by the woods. I only have one roo, with the ones in the pasture. I haven't done meat chickens this past year, but plan to eat any cockerels we get.

 

[Weeg]

I have 8 chickens in one coop, and 5 in with my ducks! 4 hens who get beat up, and a rooster who needed a home. 7 hens and a rooster in the other pen!

 

[LizzzyJo]

I currently have 23. 3 boys, and 20 girls. I'm getting 40 more in the spring.
Not sure how many meat birds go through in a year. We raised ten last year, but this year we will likely just butcher cockerels for meat. Maybe a few more CX.

Wow! You're tripling your number - how exciting! Will they be straight run? What breeds?

 

[HappyDuckie]

Wow! You're tripling your number - how exciting! Will they be straight run? What breeds?

No, I'm getting sexed girls, and 3 or 4 boys. 20 buff Orpington's, and 20 barred rocks. The boys will be buff Orpington's.

 

[LizzzyJo]

Right now I have 26 chickens. Six are in a smaller coop up near my house, and the other 20 are in a pasture down by the woods. I only have one roo, with the ones in the pasture. I haven't done meat chickens this past year, but plan to eat any cockerels we get.

That is what we've done as well. Girls in the garden, boys in the belly

 

[JadeFarms]

I currently have somewhere around 30 chickens aging from 4 months to a year. Then I have my chicks that I’m probably selling this year.