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post #11 of 20
8/23/12 at 6:20pm
Oh my gosh, when my husband said we should get some chickens a month and a half ago (I've been wanting them for years), he REALLY didn't know what kind of Pandora's box he'd opened! celebrate.gifwee.giflau.gif
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post #12 of 20
8/23/12 at 6:30pm

LOL, for me it ended up having 2 red sex link hens "just for eggs" and before I knew it. . . . within around 9 months I had 18 chickens. 4 roosters and 14 hens. So for me, my chicken math equates to 6 times what I was planning on haha

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post #13 of 20
8/23/12 at 6:31pm

Oh yeah, and some quail lol 

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post #14 of 20
8/24/12 at 4:16am
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thank you so much everybody! I'm thinking that i am going to build a coop for ten then use my current coop as a bantam coop for eight.

Proud owner of 8 chickens, 2 bunnies, and 1 dog and I love them so much!

 

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Proud owner of 8 chickens, 2 bunnies, and 1 dog and I love them so much!

 

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post #15 of 20
8/24/12 at 1:18pm
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so my dad doesn't understand chicken math, and refuses to get anymore chickens, how should i try to convince him to get more (we'd need a 2nd coop and the guy who builds our coops is expensive, so he doesn't want to) chickens?

Proud owner of 8 chickens, 2 bunnies, and 1 dog and I love them so much!

 

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post #16 of 20
8/26/12 at 11:32am

Maybe you should ask is as a birthday/christmas gift. fl.gif
 

20 chickens, 6 dogs, 4 cats.

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post #17 of 20
8/26/12 at 12:39pm
Great idea Asa gift! You can also retrofit a box store shed into a nice coop....the small ones are on sale around here for 200-300. I am already looking at them for myself. My chicken math never adds up correctly.....just wanted buff orpingtons.....LOL. Wish I understood chicken math when I started. Now not only am I looking at more chickens but a pair of peacocks and some guinea fowl too. Not to mention I have egging my husband for a couple goats and a donkey.....I wonder if anyone else's chicken math includes mammals?
Proud Mom of a beautiful daughter, 3 dogs, 5 cats and 17 chickens (Barred Rock, Partridge Rock, Australorp, Buff Orpington, Birchen Marans, Black Copper Marans, EE, Red Stars, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte,and Speckled Sussex)
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Proud Mom of a beautiful daughter, 3 dogs, 5 cats and 17 chickens (Barred Rock, Partridge Rock, Australorp, Buff Orpington, Birchen Marans, Black Copper Marans, EE, Red Stars, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte,and Speckled Sussex)
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post #18 of 20
8/26/12 at 12:39pm
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gig.gif I thought that I would start out with 12 chicks.  The feed store didn't have them when they said they would, so I bought 5 chicks from another feed store.  Then the first feed store called. So I picked up the dozen from them. That put me at 17, so time to start building a coop!  We built the coop and they liked it.  I got impatient for eggs, so I bought 3 EE hens. Then I found out that both my BOs are roosters, so of course I needed some BO pullets for them, right? wink.png

So I went to buy 2 BO hens, and came home with 5 hens.  I told my husband that the guy I bought them from was selling his coop, too.  When I went to pick up the coop, the guy offered me a good deal on his remaining 5 hens and a roo. 
I lost one of the BAs to a hawk in June, and an EE past away 2 weeks ago, so right now I'm at 29 total.  Already planning to build a couple more coops to separate my breeds. I think hubby's getting wise to my "chicken math" though, and he knows that more coops means more chickens, not just more room for the ones we already have! idunno.gif

LoL! Chicken math. My wife taught me chicken math. Only took 50 chickens to learn too!
18 Silkies, 12 white leghorn, 2 RIR, 7 Barrdrock, 20 pearl guinea, 3 white guinea, 3 purple guinea, and 1 royal purple guinea.
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18 Silkies, 12 white leghorn, 2 RIR, 7 Barrdrock, 20 pearl guinea, 3 white guinea, 3 purple guinea, and 1 royal purple guinea.
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post #19 of 20
8/27/12 at 4:50am
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Great idea Asa gift! You can also retrofit a box store shed into a nice coop....the small ones are on sale around here for 200-300. I am already looking at them for myself. My chicken math never adds up correctly.....just wanted buff orpingtons.....LOL. Wish I understood chicken math when I started. Now not only am I looking at more chickens but a pair of peacocks and some guinea fowl too. Not to mention I have egging my husband for a couple goats and a donkey.....I wonder if anyone else's chicken math includes mammals?

Well... yes and no. I find that keeping chicken math and "mammal math" separate for one BIG reason.  If I lump all of the animals together (the ones we have and the ones we want), the number is much larger, of course, and potentially more overwhelming to hubby (he's working out of state, I'm at home on the "farm").  We are building a house right now, so that takes up most of our project money.

 

My chickens are set, only a few minor retrofits to make their husbandry easier on me.

The dogs are set, just got a 10' x 10' kennel for my LGD, Solomon, last week because he's growing like a weed on steroids.

Solomon in May, 8 weeks, 19 pounds:

Solomon this month, 19 weeks, 65 pounds:

 

Now that the critters we have are provided for I can introduce hubby to livestock math, LOL, without including the chicken math and dog math.  wink.png

He wants to get some cows, turkeys, and maybe goats. And he plans to get me a horse at some point.

Bring 'em on! (one at a time, though!)

LGDs: 2 chihuahuas (LOL), one SAB. Flock: 3 LH, 4 RIR, 5 BA, 6 BO, 4 BSL,1 BB, 2 EE, 1 JBG, 1 ? Hen, good layer but don't know the breed/mix, 1 turkey
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LGDs: 2 chihuahuas (LOL), one SAB. Flock: 3 LH, 4 RIR, 5 BA, 6 BO, 4 BSL,1 BB, 2 EE, 1 JBG, 1 ? Hen, good layer but don't know the breed/mix, 1 turkey
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post #20 of 20
8/27/12 at 5:33am

I am not convinced there is a right answer, we did build our coop with additional birds in mind but i have no desire to add to my 4.. i like it how it is. I've had them for coming on 3mths. I think it's far to easy to get carried away and get yourself stretched to thin. Of coarse i could be just an odd ball lol.png as well i do have more than just them so my plate is quite full at the moment.

~ Firefly Farms home of Miniature horses, 14 Muscovy ducks, 2 calls ducks ( 2 buff ducks joining this spring), 4 Ameraucana chickens(1/2 doz Silkies coming spring, darn chicken math finally got me) , Lionhead rabbits and your typical dogs, cats, fish, and parrots...

 

 

 

 

 

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~ Firefly Farms home of Miniature horses, 14 Muscovy ducks, 2 calls ducks ( 2 buff ducks joining this spring), 4 Ameraucana chickens(1/2 doz Silkies coming spring, darn chicken math finally got me) , Lionhead rabbits and your typical dogs, cats, fish, and parrots...

 

 

 

 

 

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