What the flock? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[NY Coturnix]

I can't fit them all in one photo.

Here's 1/3 of them, a photo I took 3 weeks ago.
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23 birds, including all three of my breeder Roos, no ducks, no goats.

Now that's an automatic water system. Those drinkers are coming off the white tank right?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Now that's an automatic water system. Those drinkers are coming off the white tank right?

Yes they do, and of course its filled by rainwater. We average 1" rainfall each week, the tote is 275 gallons. The roof surface is 120 sq ft. 1" of rain on that surface area is 12 cu ft, approx 90 gallons. So as long as my birds (plus my goats) don't drink in excess of 90 gal a week (and they don't), it stays full (meaing I have substantial reserve for weeks when it doesn't rain)

That's actually the second one of those. The first one fills from my barn roof, which is more than 4x longer - so 1" of rain completely fills it. Thatway, if I have a failure in one, the other will ensure the animals stay hydrated even if I'm off property for days.

Of course, no system is perfect, I don't actually catch 100% of the rain that falls on the roof due to spillage, losses at the gutter connections, etc, but its more than adequate to my forseeable needs. Depending on your information source, local temps, and laying conditions, chickens may need between 1 and 2 pints of water daily - mine favor the higher end of that range. So 1 gallon = 4 birds worth daily. One tote equates to about 1,000 bird days worth of water. Simple

 

[NY Coturnix]

That's impressive

 

[U_Stormcrow]

That's impressive

Better? Its LAZY.

The guy satisfied with swinging a mattock and tugging at a hoe all day didn't invent the plow. The lazy {ahem} looking to do less work did!

 

[Tclloyd0812]

We currently have around 80 to 85 hens/pullets and 10+/- roosters/cockerels. In our area in the country, our flock is considered small/medium. A lot of people have a lot more chickens than we do, but we are comfortable with this number and are trying to maintain a happy, healthy, breeding flock. We do constantly have 30-40+ chicks hatching, but we usually only keep one every now and then and it has to be a pullet and have pretty colors, lol! Other than that we sell the chicks that hatch every month until it gets cold again so we are maintaining our current number and don't have to add another coop...

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I feel like my flock is small/medium. I have 22 laying hens and 3 roosters.