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post #1 of 57
2/23/12 at 7:23pm
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So.....I go into Concord Feed on Clayton Road today, because I'm planning on picking up chicks from their Pleasant Hill store tomorrow.  I go in to get chick starter, and dog food and some other stuff to get my brooder ready and I came home with two silkie bantam babies - a black and a white.  I'm doomed.  Chick season wasn't supposed to start for me until tommorrow and I'm all ready +2.  YIKES!

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post #2 of 57
2/23/12 at 7:39pm

They call this chicken math.   wink.png

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post #3 of 57
2/23/12 at 7:42pm

I can set my brooder up in 15 minutes flat, and have before (after a trip to the feed store to buy something other than chicks).  hide.gif

 

 

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post #4 of 57
2/23/12 at 7:49pm

I just shared this post with my husband, we don't even have our chicks yet, and he precedes to tell me that there is such a thing as Chicken Subtraction.... So not only is there addition, he is telling me there is subtraction... LOL!!!! had to laugh.  

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post #5 of 57
2/23/12 at 7:53pm
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I have yet to see chicken subtraction in actual practice, unless you count the number of chicks you are subtracting from the feed store.  Last March I went in to buy FOUR pullets.  As you can see by my signature line I have way more than four, plus two roosters and now two silkies.  I have my calendar packed with the days that the types of pullets I want arrive at the feed store, I'm going to pick up a new coop and run tomorrow and oh yeah - I have 12 eggs in the bator.......Perhaps I should have given up trips to the feed store for Lent...

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post #6 of 57
2/23/12 at 7:56pm

i subtracted a few the other day. tasty...

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post #7 of 57
2/23/12 at 7:58pm

I don't see any subtraction in the future for us...   I think it was my husbands wishful thinking. lau.gif

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post #8 of 57
2/23/12 at 7:59pm
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Originally Posted by crankster76 View Post

i subtracted a few the other day. tasty...



My husband enjoyed this post!  Thanks for the chuckle.  

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post #9 of 57
2/23/12 at 8:03pm

welcome. LOL...

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post #10 of 57
2/23/12 at 8:25pm
I know how you feel LOL. My first group of chicks I got 8 the next week I had 7 more. This year I ordered 15 chicks added 5 at the last minute. And monday I'm headed to a feed and send to get roughly 30 more plus 5 duckling.
My chicken project went from wanting only 8 to having 40+.(sold some)
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*-Meredith-*

Mom to 3 wonderful dogs, 4 crazy cats(one is expecting any day now ), 4 hyper rabbits, a happy assortment of chickens, and some funny call ducks. And(for now)1 random turkey.

Living my dream life here at Shadow Oak Farm, and loving every second!!!!!!!!!
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