Chicken Math. Or "The story of how I didn't want chickens and got hooked"

[azurbanclucker]

Morning cluck-around

 

[TheYLWFlock]

So cute! Love these updates!

 

[Mossy500]

We also picked up an Olive Egger on one of our last trips to the feed store. We've had a couple of losses over time and mostly I've replaced like with like (though I've lost 4 blue isbars that we got from the same breeder, so I'm gonna hold off on those for a bit) and we're holding steady at 21 kids in the chicken pool right now. The 2 prefab coops we bought weren't big enough to hold them all, so I ended up building a new coop over the last couple of weekends from a combination of new framing and scrap lumber we had around the place. They're acclimating to it now and the 4 oldest have started laying again after the move. We're still working on adding nesting boxes and I'd like to put in an auto-waterer as well, but for now it's covering shelter and predator protection which were the most critical.

View attachment 866477 View attachment 866493Above: Most of the girls in the coop.View attachment 866532
Last group out of the brooder.

I agree with your chicken math. I live in NY and I am only allowed to have 6 hens... Just between you and me... I have 11... Would have more if I could. Best of luck!

 

[azurbanclucker]

I agree with your chicken math. I live in NY and I am only allowed to have 6 hens... Just between you and me... I have 11... Would have more if I could. Best of luck!

Wow, that was nearly a year ago now. We've ebbed and flowed with the tides of chicken math quite a bit since then and are somewhere north of 30 today.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I mentioned over the weekend that we picked up a couple more Bresse hens. Here they are.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Getting hot in the AZ sun. Cool treats for all the outside animals helps.

 

[lawson1986]

We started with six pullets two years ago, now I have sixty something, 4 ducks, and two incubators full of eggs ... Did I mention I live in a townhouse also? Yeah... Someone who doesn't understand chicken math would definitely call me a hoarder

 

[azurbanclucker]

We started with six pullets two years ago, now I have sixty something, 4 ducks, and two incubators full of eggs ... Did I mention I live in a townhouse also? Yeah... Someone who doesn't understand chicken math would definitely call me a hoarder

 

[azurbanclucker]

"F", for fertile!

Artemis is sitting another dozen that are also in various stages of "becoming peeps".

 

[drumstick diva]

darling chick congratulations