Chick Math, Again!!!!!

[chicknerd]

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I agree. I was at 13, thought it was an odd number, and that 14 sounded better. But I couldn't bring home a chick all alone so had to bring two home. Now we are at 17, another prime number.

 

[SkyWarrior]

Dora'smom :

I feel your pain.

I planned for six, and less than a year later have 18 (after re-homing two roosters). There is a chicken-y vortex or wormhole in space, or something. . . right, rocket scientist? That's what I'm blaming it on. Yep. Tha's exactly what happened.

Yeah, we all got sucked into that, didn't we?

I have bad news. I'm still terrible at math. I went to get 2-4 Buff Orpingtons and came back with 4 Buff Orpingtons and Oddball.

Oddball was supposed to be a partridge rock. Oddball is probably an EE crossed with a partridge rock.

 

[SkyWarrior]

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Ah hah! But now I have Oddball, which means I have 24!

 

[welasharon]

I think this is what scares me the most! I have none as of yet...I am scared!
sharon

 

[SkyWarrior]

To see my newest additions to the chicken math, here they are:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4439135#p4439135

 

[Parkers*momma]

Lets see if our stays anywhere close to Hubby's numbers. He said I could buy no more than 5 total chickens for our daughter.

4 years ago, Daughter wanted the Easter Bunny to bring her chicks, so she recieved 2 lil silkies. Now if I am going to have chickens, I want eggs...BIG EGGS...so a neighbor gave me 2 RIR chicks for eggs someday. 2+2=4 laying hens

But the 2 RIR are NOT hens so that means we are back to 2+2=2.

Now since I have 2 roosters, gotta get the boys some lovin's so off I go to buy 3 hens. While I'm there, I find 2 EE plus 4 RIR (2 for each RIR roo), and a lil splash silkie roo for my daughters(they looked lonely). 2 silkie hens+3 RIR hens=5 chickens in my book.

Daughter tells grandpa she wants Golden Pheonix for a Christmas present. Grandpa sends her 2 roosters and 10 hens. They don't count cause they were a gift so still at 5 hens.

While at an auction for antiques, Daughter finds 1 Japanese blacktailed rooster with 4 hens. Now, I have to admit it they were so cute with their stubby lil legs and pretty tails. BUt since we were there for antiques, I guess they don't count either. So still at 5.

Well Mr. Silkie Roo was to hard on one lil hen (this was will we were still learning about chickens and ratios) and he...welllll....made whoopy one to many times and killed the lil hen. Now we are 5-1=4 chickens

So we seperated Mr Romantic from all the hens and he wasn't allowed to woo the remaining hen. One day he got out and we were chasing him while he was chasing the single lil silkie hen. BAM! He was looking to see where we were and ran full bore into the lil red rider wagon and broke his neck. Yes, it was a murder/suicide as my daughter explains it. 4-1=3 chickens.

To give our lil lonely silkie a friend we start searching for her a roo. Well, we found pretty white ones. The only problem, there was three of them and they were brothers. Now we all know you CAN'T seperate family members. So we didn't and came home with all three. But they only count as one because they look alike and we only wanted one. 3+1=4.

Again, another old farmer neighbor was talking to our daughter and heard the "passion" as he called it, so he brought over a turken, 2 fancy feathered chickens, a polish, a Sizzle, and a lil bantam cochin. Again they don't count because they were gifts. 3+1=4

Her other grandpa couldn't be outdone by the other grandpa, so on his way here from WV, he brings her a MIlles Fleur. Sweet lil chap and so pretty. Again a gift so he don't count. 3+1=4.

Then I find a pekin and swedish ducks in the paper who needed home or facing butchering. Now we can't have that and how was I suppose to know female from male? I didn't know a thing about ducks until I found a nest the other day with Daisy sitting on 18 eggs. Learned real quick that if the duck has a single curled feather on his tail it's a male! But then again..hubby said "buy no more than 5 chickens" ducks aren't chickens so they don't count.

Then daughter decides to sneak a few small eggs from the pheonix, japs, cochin, and silkie under my broody hen. out of 10 eggs, 8 hatched. But since hubby said "buy no more than 5" they don't count. They are home grown! so we are still at 4 chickens.

I've been talking to a wonder BYC'er who just happens to have Milles Fleur...Just looking for 1 hen but who's to say how many we are getting. BUt since I just want 1 that means 4+1=5 chickens.

See I am a good devoted Wife. I only bought 5 out of the 45 chickens and 2 ducks.

Yep, Chicken math at it's best!!

 

[drumstick diva]

I don't know that high school math ever did me any good - I hated it. Whereas it's so easy to understand chicken math, even I can do it. My friend Arline has two housepet silkies - of course Tiffany Bee Bee turned into Tobey and has been harassing the daylights out of poor Sheba. My friend couldn't take the uncertainty and worry about rehoming yet another pullet=turned-roo, so she has been keeping him. This left her with just one pullet tho, so she just bought 2 hopefully pullet silky seramas. Makes sense to me. I told her if one or more become roos, she should try a pair of crested polish next time. Sooner or later - she'll get things evened out. Anyhow now I have 4 Godchickens instead of 2. and plan to throw a chicken shower for them. If only income would escalate like chickens., we'd all be stinkin' rich!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Parkers mama, I underrstand your reasoning perfectly. I have a version of "cookie" math that I use everyday. Broken cookies have no calories, neither do cookies consumed while standing up or walking around the kitchen. Cookies eaten while multitasking(watching tv, making dinner, washing floors etc.) have 0 calories because you don;t realize you ate them. Cookies that cost a dollar or less obviously don't have calories. My favorite is, free sample cookies at the grocery store don't have calories either so go and sneak a few as often as you dare, while pretending to be shopping in the bakery area.

Somehow the darn clothes dryer keeps shrinking my clothes and I find my sizes going up the ladder but, that's probably because I wasn't good at science class either.

 

[Amyable]

This year is my first flock and I have just learned what y'all are talking about.

Built a coop for about 12-15 layers and one roo. Minimum order is 25, they sent 29, assorted mix. Lost 1.
The week before my chick order arrives, got 3 EE pullets from a fellow BYCer.
Went to the Cheesehead meet'n'greet, brought home one pure Ameraucana.
My neighbor lost 6 chickens by her dog, so went to get started chicks. Came home with 5 pullets (neighbor got 11, she does the same math too!)
Now we need to go back and get chickens for another neighbor

So, 29-1+3+1+5+x = 37 + x (x being the upcoming chicken excursion.)

7 months pregnant and can't build another coop til next spring.

 

[stanglover2001]

Hmmm... I love chicken MATH!! Wanted only 4 and went to TSC and they had a 6 chick limit, well husband wasn't with me and I seen 4 bantams so bought them since the lady at TSC said I didn't have to buy more since they only had 4, DH wanted meat chickens so went back and got 10. Couple weeks later my neighbor had 23 chicks hatch and bought them for less than a dollar each. Well one of the chicks had to be culled from broke leg. A few weeks later bought 3 Silver Laced Wyandottes from someone in Knoxville (had them on craigslist). Got 3 free roosters but butchered them all to prevent disease.Then just last week my father-in-law gave us 12. Then the next day my 26 cornishX arrived. Butchered 2 roosters.

SO 4=4+10+23-1+3+3-3+12+26= 73!!!!!