2020 Flock Life

Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

  • Chicken

    Votes: 90 54.2%

  • Egg

    Votes: 55 33.1%

  • Neither

    Votes: 21 12.7%
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    166
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Alrighty then!
I bought my own flock of laying hens in 2017. My grandpa had raised them from chicks, and when I got them they were not laying, but probably a few weeks or so away from starting. They were twelve Gold Stars (ISA Browns). I was going to start selling eggs. In March of 2018, I got my first batch of baby chicks. There were 12 Gold Stars, 2 Barred Rocks, and 2 Americanas (Easter Eggers). That August I got 12 more chicks. Actually 13, I got an extra (which was a gift from God, as one of the pullets of that same breed died.) There were 6 Gold Stars, 5 Rhode Island Reds, and 2 Buff Orpingtons. The next February one of my Easter Eggers went broody. One day after school I was at a feed store to get some chicks for her. (I ended up raising them in the house.) I got 2 Calico Princesses, 2 Easter Eggers, and 2 Sapphire Gems. One of the Easter Eggers, and one of the Calicos died early on. I ended up with four remainders. Dolly, calico p., Georgiana, Easter Egger, and Sapphire and ZuZu the Sapphire Gems. That June I got 10 more Gold Star chicks. This March I got 25 chicks: 15 Gold Stars, 2 Salmon Faverolles, 2 Easter Eggers, 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes, and 2 Golden Laced Wyandottes, and 2 Speckled Sussex. In May I got 16 more chicks! 14 Gold Stars, and 2 Easter Eggers.
I've of course lost chickens, and given some older ones away, but yet I currently have 78 chickens. I sell eggs, and hopefully with all these new pullets growing up, I'll be able to expand, or at least fill more orders.
Thanks for letting me join!
Dottie the Chicken

Here are the four from the batch last February
Georgiana
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Dolly
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ZuZu
zuzu.jpg

Sapphire
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MysticUniKitty said:
Welcome @Dottie the Chicken ! Love the tale of chicken math! I'm right up there with you on numbers!

@Fur-N-Fowl your Lil group is adorable!! For notifications I made sure to click watch thread at the top and it tells me every time someone posts.
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Thankyou!

Thereā€™s a lot more babies due in just over a weeks time! The eggs are bought in as the Male I had turned out to be infertile but I should be getting another lovely quality Male later in the year so I can start hatching for shows again soon!

I do watch threads but for some reason I still donā€™t get notifications šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø nevermind, I just have to keep checking on the threads when I remember šŸ˜‚
 

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