Can someone explain "Chicken Math" to me?

[canesisters]

Ha, ha, ha this is so funny!

How's this for a chicken math equation?
I have a 4'x4' dog house with plans to turn it into a coop and add a run = 2 or 3 chickens

Then I got a camper shell from a pickup truck and decided that it would be better to use the materials intended for the run to build a coop under the shell and get more stuff for the run = 5 or 6 chickens

Then a neighbor gave me a shed (10'x10' I think, haven't picked it up yet) so now I will use the camper shell to cover part of a run, part of the run wire covered = maybe 10 chickens

AND I HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN THE FIRST ACTUAL BIRD YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.... and then there's that dog house sitting there empty.......

 

[citychickx6]

My chicken math went like this.
I wanted 6 BA's and got 2.
DH chose 2 California Whites and 2 EE < these do not count I did not choose them.
I wanted 2 or 3 SLW and answered an ad.
They had none left.
DH chose 1 BO, 1 GLW, 1 Splash hamburg and one EE < again these do not count I did not choose them.
I wanted to order 2 CW's, but you cant just ship 2.
DH wanted to order some Appenzellar spitzhauben and spangled hamburgs<< Wont count I did not choose them.

And who can say no to a free chick? So in May we will get 7 chicks.

That brings my grand total to 2 chickens.
BA's and CW's are all that will count 2 breeds = 2 chickens.

DH says he has a headache now.

 

[Coop de Grille]

Here is another twist on Chicken Math...I just got back from ordering a shed to be converted into a coop.

Before I got my chicks I looked at a 4x6 coop. (DH and I agreed on only four chickens total). Now I have my chicks and need to start getting a coop ready for them so I go back to the website for the coop and look around. But then a trip to Lowes opens my eyes....for the same price, I could buy an 8x10 shed and convert it to a coop. 8x10 means double the number of chicks it will hold.

Today I went to order my shed, and I wound up with a 10x16 shed. I can fit a lot MORE chickens in a 10x16 then in an 8x10. So now I'm looking on Craigslist for another batch of baby chicks lol...

 

[canesisters]

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OMG!
There ya go! That is chicken math.

 

[Kaitie09]

Chicken Math is the reason everyone says to build bigger than you think.

We started out with 4. 2 died, so we went to TSC when they were having the chick sale but the minimum was 6, so we had to get them.

Wanted a "real" farm, so we got a roo. Then got curious, so we put 6 eggs in to incubate. 4 hatched (all roos), but we just had to keep them.

Went to a yard sale and picked up an ex battery hen. Cousins were doing a science project, so we gave them 4 eggs to incubate. All hatched and came back to us (3 hens and a roo)

Total= 18. We then wanted to start over so we sold all but 4 hens and 1 roo.


We were building a bigger coop so we could get more chicks. Was supposed to only be 8, but all family member picked out 3 different breeds=12+5=17

Hen went broody so often we felt bad, so we got her 2 EE chicks. She rejected them, so we had to let her sit on eggs. Another one went broody, so we just let her sit on some. They hatched out 5 chicks, but two died. then The ducks killed the 2 EE pullets.


Grand total is now 19 hens and 1 roo...but the 4 old hens and roo are nearly 5 now, so we may be making a retirement coop for them and getting more.

 

[theoldchick]

Einstein's Theory of Relativity is really chicken math.

 

[Southernbelle]

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Nitrous is the guru of all things Chicken Math.

 

[Nitrous]

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Nitrous is the guru of all things Chicken Math.

Thank you Grasshopper.

I see you have discovered how to purchase five chickens and arrive home with fewer than you started with. This is very advanced Chicken Math you are doing. When you can snatch the Bantam egg out of my hand without breaking it, you are ready.

 

[Nitrous]

The wise Bill Clinton taught me this one.

If I go to the store to buy ten chickens but I only buy two...

I have just reduced the size of my flock by 8 chickens! It is called "Virtual Culling" and no chickens are harmed in the process. It is very humane, to all except the farmer.

This example works especially well when you had no chickens to start with, because now you have -8 chickens.

This situation MUST be remedied because the universe abhors a vacuum. But the universe has got NOTHING on a chicken farmer. And you can't have -8 chickens. It's impossible and therefore wrong, so ergo must be made right.

A chicken farmer will use their smartphone to download the 'Craigslist for Android' app and be purchasing chickens, on the way home, from the store. One hand contains a quietly clucking/scratching box, with holes in it and the other is on the phone, purchasing 15 more chickens to make up for the 8 that are "in the hole".

Chicken Math must ALWAYS work in your favor. Even though you always "round down". That makes half a chicken really be no chickens... and you can end the equation anywhere you want. If you have two Bantams (half a chicken each), you do not have to add them, before rounding! You have one half chicken (which is no chickens when you round down) and another half chicken (also zero) so zero plus zero equals zero.

Chicken Math>regular math.

 

[stilldeb]

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Sounds like the road to Chicken Math is paved with good (if sneaky!) intentions...I thought the only thing I was going to have to struggle with was limiting myself to one (ok, maybe two!) Maine Coons....Now I find the chickens are rather infectiously interesting and I find myself wondering how I can really experience them if I only get 4?

I know this is off-topic of chicken math, but I wondered if there was such a thing as a Bantam Easter Egger?

Sure, my Snickers is a Bantam EE.

She was from my first batch of chickens (6) from which two turned out to be "accidental" roos, so I had to get more chickens (of course) and got ten more (ten seemed like a nice round number). Then I got five Sultans just because they were pretty. All of mine are Bantams, so my 21 Banties only count as what...10 1/2 chickens, right???

AND...I still have one coop with no chickens in it...THAT'S JUST WRONG.