Chicken Math Got Me Bad....

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

My birds just turned one
It was a little too close a call for getting them "little siblings" for their one year hatchiversary
"Hmmm December minimums can be 8. I can do that... but shipping is less if you get fifteeeeennnnn.... I should get an assortment, which will put me at 16.... but I really want those too-"
And when the cart reached 31 I was like "....naaah, I can't"

 

[Project Blue]

My name is Nina and I hatch chicks and math was my worst subject in school. My problem is I hatch shipped eggs, often in small quantities. If I hatch just one out of six eggs, I have to go to the feed store or bigger mistake send my dear husband the enabler in to buy a few more chicks to keep the loner company. He has two master degrees, electrical engineering and chemical and still can't do chicken math. His solution is to build more coops. I am too ashamed to actually say how many coops we have, what's worse I have to think about to come up with a number. I need to get past denial to even count how many chickens I have.

 

[MROO]

For those that say the chicken math got them bad, post pics of your coop/run to see if we can feel your pain.......With that said, no chickens here yet, but the 14th is the day 4 hens come home. I don't want a rooster, plus my coop is only 40" x 60" inside, so my flock size is limited, unless I "remodel"

Y'know, going "up" with more roosts adds more space ... just sayin' ...

 

[MROO]

For those that say the chicken math got them bad, post pics of your coop/run to see if we can feel your pain.......With that said, no chickens here yet, but the 14th is the day 4 hens come home. I don't want a rooster, plus my coop is only 40" x 60" inside, so my flock size is limited, unless I "remodel"

Yes, it used to be my kids' playhouse ... now it's MINE!
The 9' high cabin is the main coop, with the two "sandboxes" serving as one large run that can be divided for ga 4x2' box off the back that used to be a grow-out coop, but has since been commandeered by the hens as a nesting box/broody hideout. The small coop opens up to the old swingset. That will eventually become a large, covered run, but for now, it's just enclosed by a large dog kennel with a tarp over it. It's definitely not escape-proof (hopefully that'll happen in the Spring,) so my girls-n-boys (2) have to be supervised in there. There are too many predators here for true free-ranging.

I've had as many as 27 in there - mostly tiny bantams, but it's currently home to 16. My main flock has always been Nankin bantams, but there are a couple of Nankin/EE bantam crosses (I'm a sucker for tiny, green eggs!) I also have one standard (Sapphire Gem) and Boo, a smallish Silkie/BJG cross. She was a happy accident, the last of Herman The House Rooster's get. When Boo goes (she's almost 8) there will be tears!