chicken math is gonna kill me(or DH will)

[pharmchickrnmom]

Great posts! I ordered 6 silkie eggs to hatch in march. Only 1 hatched. Cant have just one chick so a very nice lady sent me 12 silkies eggs to hatch. 5 hatched. Cool, so now I have six silkies! They get to be around 8 weeks old and what do I see on craigslist??? Someone near me has silkie chicks for sale in colors I dont have! So I call her up and get myself 5 new chicks for mothers day. DH looks in the box and asks me how many will be getting new homes. I told him the boys will be moving out. Now that the older chicks are filling out, I dont know that I will be parting with my blue boys. Oh well, I will just have to build another coop.

Now I just need him to cut down 2 trees to do it,

I was never good at math but I am loving chicken math!

 

[ladyride]

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gotta love it

I went looking for a roo came home with 4 pullets still got no roo so now I have 13 queens no king

still looking for a roo for my buff orphs.

 

[crazyhen]

After losing my flock in Feb. I have gone crazy acc. to my hb. I have 30 yes 30 straight run chicks. I figure I might get 10 or 12 hens. Everyone that gets Dell ends up on the short end of females and loads of males, Also I have NH chicks some are darker than others? males or females, I have bunches of BR males and ??? ameracauanas all black so I have no idea of those. Then those beautiful mostly english orps from Beth along with the american orp. I have no clue about them. I will be happy to have two females of each for a new flock. then there are the lavender orps and the two who we do not know for sure what they are. ?Wyndottes. I love chicken math. They are only ranging in age from 1 week to two weeks or a bit older.
Wow! It "duth" add up. I will try to keep about 3 roos. NH, DEL and Ameracuana. Now just to figure out how to house them, hummmmmmmmmmmmm Gloria Jean

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

I gotta knock it off with this chicken math. I am going through a 50 lb. bag of layer feed every 3 weeks and a 25 lb. bag of chick feed a week! I need to buy more tomorrow after I get paid. I'm already out.

 

[sheila3935]

I know what you mean about the feed. I have all these chicks and chickens and ducks. So I buy chick starter for the babies and have 21 of those, I have 12 layers and a roo so layer for them, I have 5 bantams 2 laying 1 not and 2 roos, so I buy unmedicated chick grower for them and give the layers oyster shells, and I have 8 ducks that get an all flock. I'll be glad when I can just buy one kind of food.I think once I get through this last bag of layer feed I will switch to all flock on the layers and I have a rabbit feeder that holds a bag of oyster shells so they will be fine with that. At least now that its warm and my girls can free range they are not eating as much of the feed.I was tempted to buy the last 3 turkeys tonight, 2 Royal Palms and a Bourbon Red, but thank God someone came in and bought them.

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

Just to let you know....

Only laying hens count as chickens...

Therefore I only have 6.5 (6 LF plus two banties which are 1/4 the size, and the egg size of the LF) the others don't count, of which 2.5 are potential chickens, but since we don't know their laying capabilities yet, they are just "birds". I have a 10 "chicken" limit, as per DH, so I'm still in the clear. If he actually changes his verbage to "birds", I'm in trouble.....

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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Which is why MEN should be the only ones allowed to use incubators to prevent dangerous free thinking like this!

 

[stcroixusvi]

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Of course! Colors always factor into chicken math. How could I have missed this? I learn something new on this forum every day!

 

[gryeyes]

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Of course! Colors always factor into chicken math. How could I have missed this? I learn something new on this forum every day!

Colors are the second most important factor in the "need to acquire" part of chicken math! If it's not the addition of a breed of a different color, it's the discovery of different "flavors" of a particular breed. Got buff Orpingtons? Get blue or lavender or white Orpingtons? Or black Australorps!

And so it goes....

 

[Teeah3612]

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Feed or chicks?