CHICKEN MATH STRIKES AGAIN

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Finally after 6 years I can finally be a part of this! Ok..always did GREAT at resisting but this year I decided life is for the living so why the hell not :
Started out in May with my original three hens who were all about 4-5 years old (had them their entire lives)
1 partridge cochin
1 Millie Fleur
1 White Silky
THEN back in June I got 3 cochin and 3 jersey giant chicks and raised them under my white silky who had gone broody.
The JG's were supposed to be for a friend but due to a promotion and job travel he says he cant take them anymore. ( I tried to pretend like he stuck me with them but in my head I was like hmm what should I name them? lol )
THEN on June 28th I recieved my CRAZYY order from MyPetChicken that I had waited five months for!!!!
1 Light Brahma
1 Blue Silky
1 Buff Silky
1 White Sultan
1 Buff Laced Polish
1 Silver Laced Cochin
1 White Crested Black Polish
1 Appenzeller Spitzhauben
1 Barred Rock
The MPC chicks are now almost a month old and doing great , enjoying their daily explorations outside!
AND FINALLY: THIS monday my last order of the year will ship from My Pet Chicken ( bc I liked them so much I went right back on and placed another order!)
1 Salmon Faverolles
1 Dark Cornish
1 Silver Laced Polish
1 Black Silky
**I ONLY BOUGHT 'SEXED' BIRDS SO FINGERS CROSSED EVERYONE IS A HEN!!*******
 
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CollegeChicken said:
Finally after 6 years I can finally be a part of this! Ok..always did GREAT at resisting but this year I decided life is for the living so why the hell not :
Started out in May with my original three hens who were all about 4-5 years old (had them their entire lives)
1 partridge cochin
1 Millie Fleur
1 White Silky
THEN back in June I got 3 cochin and 3 jersey giant chicks and raised them under my white silky who had gone broody.
The JG's were supposed to be for a friend but due to a promotion and job travel he says he cant take them anymore. ( I tried to pretend like he stuck me with them but in my head I was like hmm what should I name them? lol )
THEN on June 28th I recieved my CRAZYY order from MyPetChicken that I had waited five months for!!!!
1 Light Brahma
1 Blue Silky
1 Buff Silky
1 White Sultan
1 Buff Laced Polish
1 Silver Laced Cochin
1 White Crested Black Polish
1 Appenzeller Spitzhauben
1 Barred Rock
The MPC chicks are now almost a month old and doing great , enjoying their daily explorations outside!
AND FINALLY: THIS monday my last order of the year will ship from My Pet Chicken ( bc I liked them so much I went right back on and placed another order!)
1 Salmon Faverolles
1 Dark Cornish
1 Silver Laced Polish
1 Black Silky
**I ONLY BOUGHT 'SEXED' BIRDS SO FINGERS CROSSED EVERYONE IS A HEN!!*******
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What a fun and great little flock! My daughter who says she never wants more then one of any type of chicken would be green with envy! :) Enjoy that wonderful flock!
 
LOL I am so glad to hear I am not the only one. We started 18 months ago with 9 chicks of various breeds, raised them until they feathered out and sold 6 kept 3. That was supposed to be my limit, then 1 dies of unknown causes. We went through the winter with just the remaining 2. This spring I bought 4 from the feed store, a buff orpington, an EE, a partridge, and a barred rock. All was well until our dog killed 5 of them. So now we are down to one (an original of the first 9 chicks "Clara Belle"). Now I am waiting for my next 11 to get in from Ideal, they ship on the 30th. And I live in town with a city ordinance of 4 hens. We'll see if they catch me!
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It looks like everybody has their chicken math story here, so I guess I should post mine. I was kind of embarrassed by it, but after reading some of the others, I don't feel so bad.

I have two goals: To have a rainbow of eggs, and to have beautiful color sprinkled chickens with big bottoms like the ones we used to care for our friends in England (Dad was in the Air Force, and I later recognized the chickens to be Jubilee Orpingtons)

SO, I started searching for a coop..obsessively, I have to say and finally settled on one a local lady had for sale. It was just the right size for maybe three hens, with a miniature run and..ummmm...some architectural issues, but It would do, and she was giving away two free four week old chicks with it! Ok, SOLD! I drug it home, left the chicks with her under the heat light and proceeded to add a nesting box, and three feet of extra run to the coop. I had already ordered two pullets before I got the free chicks, so I had to make the coop and run large enough for four!

Well, I got my pullets, and they were farm birds. Afraid to come too close, but I had them eating out of my hand in a few days, and grabbed them up and made them let me pet them until they liked it...then it was time to pick up my two free chicks. When I got there, they were ADORABLE! and she was selling off a few more because she had 15 chicks and a small yard...ok, give me one more, what the heck, give me three and I went home with five chicks. While I scrambled to get the bedding ready mini Dachshund pulled a chick out of the cage by her head through an opening half the size of the chick...so remember that we were grieving when you read the rest of the story.....

I have an empty spot to fill, right? So I search for pure bred Ameraucana chicks....but all I find is eggs! So I read more and more ads for eggs and then somehow an incubator add pops up in my egg viewing. Hmm......Incubators cost a thousand bucks? Right? but this one is $30, and it is TWO MILES from me! What the heck! I go to collect this incubator and the lady selling it is the most kind, unselfish person on the planet. She tells me all about the incubator, how accurate it is, what to do when to do it how to do it and here's her email address....PLEASE contact her if I have any questions about my hatch. When I walked out, I would have paid double!

The end of the story:

I have 16 viable eggs of the 24 ameraucanas I bought (6 were porous and two quitters) in LOCKDOWN right now, 24 Marans eggs ordered to start incubation on Sunday, and 18 JUBILEE ORPINGTON eggs (all with porous eggs culled) to go with them Sunday morning! About $150 worth of eggs on my SECOND ever hatch in a still air incubator! Pray for me that my beginner's luck holds out!

(oh, and a walk-in 6 x 8 x 8 foot tall brand new coop with a 6 x 10 foot run with dual pop doors for segregation and two auxillary free range areas is about half done)

So I filled that empty spot with....hmm...about 58 chickens?? It's the Dachshund's fault!

P.S. One of my free chicks is a rooster...without a doubt. I don't want a Buff Orpington rooster...I want a Black Copper Maran rooster and a Jubilee Orpington rooster. That means I have just ONE MORE spot to fill!!!
 
Bazy said:
It looks like everybody has their chicken math story here, so I guess I should post mine. I was kind of embarrassed by it, but after reading some of the others, I don't feel so bad.

I have two goals: To have a rainbow of eggs, and to have beautiful color sprinkled chickens with big bottoms like the ones we used to care for our friends in England (Dad was in the Air Force, and I later recognized the chickens to be Jubilee Orpingtons)

SO, I started searching for a coop..obsessively, I have to say and finally settled on one a local lady had for sale. It was just the right size for maybe three hens, with a miniature run and..ummmm...some architectural issues, but It would do, and she was giving away two free four week old chicks with it! Ok, SOLD! I drug it home, left the chicks with her under the heat light and proceeded to add a nesting box, and three feet of extra run to the coop. I had already ordered two pullets before I got the free chicks, so I had to make the coop and run large enough for four!

Well, I got my pullets, and they were farm birds. Afraid to come too close, but I had them eating out of my hand in a few days, and grabbed them up and made them let me pet them until they liked it...then it was time to pick up my two free chicks. When I got there, they were ADORABLE! and she was selling off a few more because she had 15 chicks and a small yard...ok, give me one more, what the heck, give me three and I went home with five chicks. While I scrambled to get the bedding ready mini Dachshund pulled a chick out of the cage by her head through an opening half the size of the chick...so remember that we were grieving when you read the rest of the story.....

I have an empty spot to fill, right? So I search for pure bred Ameraucana chicks....but all I find is eggs! So I read more and more ads for eggs and then somehow an incubator add pops up in my egg viewing. Hmm......Incubators cost a thousand bucks? Right? but this one is $30, and it is TWO MILES from me! What the heck! I go to collect this incubator and the lady selling it is the most kind, unselfish person on the planet. She tells me all about the incubator, how accurate it is, what to do when to do it how to do it and here's her email address....PLEASE contact her if I have any questions about my hatch. When I walked out, I would have paid double!

The end of the story:

I have 16 viable eggs of the 24 ameraucanas I bought (6 were porous and two quitters) in LOCKDOWN right now, 24 Marans eggs ordered to start incubation on Sunday, and 18 JUBILEE ORPINGTON eggs (all with porous eggs culled) to go with them Sunday morning! About $150 worth of eggs on my SECOND ever hatch in a still air incubator! Pray for me that my beginner's luck holds out!

(oh, and a walk-in 6 x 8 x 8 foot tall brand new coop with a 6 x 10 foot run with dual pop doors for segregation and two auxillary free range areas is about half done)

So I filled that empty spot with....hmm...about 58 chickens?? It's the Dachshund's fault!

P.S. One of my free chicks is a rooster...without a doubt. I don't want a Buff Orpington rooster...I want a Black Copper Maran rooster and a Jubilee Orpington rooster. That means I have just ONE MORE spot to fill!!!
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Originally I wanted 12 hens. However I loved them twice as much as I thought I would. Equals 24. Plus a rooster, wait, it will take 2 to keep them fertile. 26. We must make chicks now...... 44. Half of those chicks will be roosters. I need more... 50. I think 50?
 

Hey all, ok this story is not much but ok here it is. So we first got 6 chickens all hens and then months later at Indiana chickfest we were not geting any but AT CHICK FEST how can you not get any right? so a day before umm I forget his name but he posted a pick of a legbar pullet and me and my mom wanted her so then I said "if we get one we need to get two so she will not be alone". then we got there and we saw the kind of chicken my mom always wanted (buff orp) so we got her to. Then a week later we went and got a legbar roo he is 6 1/2 weeks old so now when he and my 8 other hens get older we will get chicks so ALWAYS get a ROO so you can get a lot of chickens. Oh and if you know flyladyrocks that's my mom. Not much but a roo means chickens means I get an A+ in chicken math? RIGHT?
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Oh, chicken math. I thought I'd be able to resist you!

So, you'll notice my post count is pretty low. My first "I have chickens!" post was 5/8 of this year. WELL LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED.

Those two rental Welsummers weren't laying very well. They are pretty young. So I wrote the lady I'm renting the chickens from and she said that the output was bad, she felt bad, and would let me borrow two more of her hens. She brought me her pair of breeding Light Sussex! So for a couple weeks we had great eggs! Then, mid June, and one of the Sussex goes broody. She refuses all efforts to break her, hogs the nest box and completely throws the Welsummers and other Sussex into a tizzy. Egg production drops, then halts altogether. I get a nice hutch for the broody and decide well, if she wants to hatch some eggs, I'll give her some eggs to hatch!

So knowing that generally speaking, the hatch rate on shipped eggs is not that great, I find someone here to buy some eggs from (Thanks Arielle!). She sends me 13 eggs and I put them under the hen. I figure half will hatch and I have to assume half will be roosters, sooo.... 3 or 4 hens of my own, yeah? I can handle that!

Well, 9 hatched. NINE. And so far, only two seem to be roosters, maybe three. That was back on the 14th of this month.

Shortly before hatch day, I mean a day or two before, my OTHER Sussex decides she wants to hatch some eggs too! Well rather than get another bunch and wait another 20 days, I figured I'd give day-old chicks a try. I heard sometimes that was successful. So I ordered some bantams from a hatchery and they arrived last week. (I wanted tiny eggs for the school lunchbox for my kids). They sent me 4 bantams and an extra mystery chick. Unfortunately the hen rejected them so they're in a box in my house (but they're so teeny and cute and friendly!). On the good side, that hen seems to have snapped out of her broodiness. I still haven't seen an egg since July 6th, but I'm hoping that changes now that no one is broody anymore.

So that's May 8 I started with 2 chickens, and today I have 18. We're in the process of building a coop for my fourteen and I'll be giving the 4 rental chickens back in October. I'll have to send the roosters to freezer camp because we're in a suburban area, but that's still a lot of hens!

I'm also thinking about getting a couple of ducks. WHEEEEEE!
 
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