Spring Chicken Inventory

Spring inventory.

We sold some roosters to a nice home. We hatched two batches of chicks gifted from a friend. A few hens fell off their perches and died. We butchered the meat birds, but ordered new ones. A friend moved away and gave us a laying hen. One pen got the pox and a few of the hens died. The rest recovered nicely. The ones that died had swollen eyes and couldn't see to eat. Sad...

Anyway, we thought we'd better take stock of what we had. So last night, when they were all sleeping, we took inventory. (They're not moving around when they're sleeping.) 

Bottom line: 111 chickens

Main pen: 3 roosters, 26 laying hens

Transition pen: 1 rooster, 5 laying hens

Cocoa's pen: 2 roosters, 7 laying hens

Tonto's pen: 5 roosters, 2 laying hens, 7 pullets (young layers)

Brother's pen: 2 roosters, 10 laying hens

Portable pen: 1 rooster, 2 hens

Rooster cages: 2 roosters

Meatbird pen: 23 lunches (6-week olds)

Chicks in the brooder room: 15

Total of 59 hens that can potentially lay eggs. We get 25 - 35 eggs per day. I don't know if that's good or not, but it works for us. We do have to thin out the roosters; we have too many again, but there are only three that we don't want. We become too attached..... 

It's good to take stock.