What size flock do you have?

[JacinLarkwell]

Yeah I feel that way to. I need to sell some, but Its hard when Ive had these girls for a while. My rooster are easy for me to give up but my hens, I love them.

My flock has mareks, so I have to process any chickens I don't want to keep any longer. If I could sell/give away, I'd probably only have ⅓ of what I do right now

 

[Egg Snatcher]

My flock has mareks, so I have to process any chickens I don't want to keep any longer. If I could sell/give away, I'd probably only have ⅓ of what I do right now

Ah Im sorry

 

[AGeese]

My flock has mareks, so I have to process any chickens I don't want to keep any longer. If I could sell/give away, I'd probably only have ⅓ of what I do right now

Sorry to hear that.

 

[AGeese]

View media item 7964735This is the present flock to be increased by 5 by fall.

 

[AGeese]

Moved to the 10 to 15 category today.

Added 3 in August, 2 more Buckeyes, and a Black Sumatra Roo
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Just picked up 3 Leige Fighters which I hope I can integrate.

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[GodLovesU]

I also have a bachelor pad of button quail.

 

[Evadig]

I have one large flock divided into several subflocks:

The Hens (4) 2-years
The Biddies (3) 6-months
Lil 'n' Lu (2) 6-months
The Chickies (4) ten-weeks
And, if Jen's eggs hatch, the Buggers (one-week-in-the-egg)

They all free range together.

I have two coops: the main one divided into several apartments, to accommodate most of the subflocks, and a smaller one for the last subflock.

The Hens and Lil 'n' Lu both have a rooster in their pen. They take turns free ranging because they'll fight otherwise.

This has all changed…
I just got two more hens, bringing the total to nineteen. I must be officially insane.

Anyway, the main flock lives in the old duck pen as the runs got taken over by cats.

The new hens with the lowest ranking bird from the main flock live in the third run. They will eventually be joined by a rooster who is in my prefab right now.

I converted an old shed into a chicken coop to house my aggressive boy, his two girls, and the free ranging hens (the Virtures, formerly the Chickies if you see my above post).

Jen’s eggs turned out both to be roosters.

My system is really hard to understand unless you see pictures. Maybe I’ll do a coop article one of these days…

The new hens

 

[Evadig]

any regrets, wishes, or future plans to expand or downsize?

I regret getting chickens…


But seriously, if I did this over again I would build a barn and put up movable walls. My current set-up is not making me happy and I am constantly moving things and birds around as the flock needs change.

 

[Love Donkeys]

Right now the chicken count is;
28 hens
2 roosters
16 pullets, 8 weeks old
All my chickens are Speckled Sussex and are free-range.

I have no regrets what so ever concerning the breed or walk-in coop size.
Recently I even named their coop. Since they are all the same breed none of them have a special name, they are my Feather Heads.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

I have moved as well. I have 9 hens instead of 5 and 8 chicks that i hatched from flock before rehoming the cockerels. Whatever chicks are pullets ill keep and maybe a cockerel