If I remember correctly, he had about 500. I was just a young boy but I can remember many and it is only a guesstimate. He had space on grandfathers place but we lived in town... a small farming community of 550 people. I cannot remember much more than watching the chickens from the front seat of my dad's truck and sitting on a chair at the egg conveyor looking for bad eggs. I was too young to go on deliveries to the big city some 90 miles away. No problem with the U/V as I tend to run low sometimes myself.