chicken math is gonna kill me(or DH will)

[lizage]

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Feed or chicks?

 

[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!

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....

Mine are only a week and a half and I am already seeing stark differences in them, not only color, size, but personality. Two weeks ago, a chicken was a chicken!

 

[AlbionWood]

My wife is getting pretty good at chicken math. Originally she wasn't - kept trying to tell me that 26 chickens was "enough," whatever that is supposed to mean...

Then she said, well, since it's Spring and the hens are now a year old, maybe we can get a few chicks - thinking in the right direction, but then she'd say something foolish like "but only four more, 30 chickens is enough..." again with that word!

But then she had a breakthrough. Coincidentally this occurred just after the broody Sussex hatched out four new chicks to go with the four we bought to put under her. Suddenly, she began to do sums correctly! Today, for example, we brought home another 8 chicks, to put under the other broody, who has hatched two and has two more eggs under her. And we still have one broody hen, so...

Of course the ones hatched out at home don't count, because as everyone knows, they will all be cockerels, which don't count because they all end up in the freezer. (Unless they are really sweet and cute.)

 

[SierraView]

Chicken math worked on my DH once. Now hes says if it has a head it counts. He occasionally does head counts and says he's making sure none are missing since they free range. So I guess he really cares about the chickens but won't admit it.

 

[Smith farm]

Guess I'm lucky cause my wife wants to hatch almost all the eggs we collect from our girls lol I couldn't ask for a better woman plus we have hogs and I just came home with 2 more calves today to go along with the two we already have and she said I wanna get more of those too!!! all I can say is