CHICKEN MATH STRIKES AGAIN

[BrownSheep]

You'll be good on thanks giving turkeys for the next 20 years!! Haha. Are you using them for meat?

Some of them yes. I'ld like to keep a trio of each breed. Royal palms, nasarangasett, and bourbon rds.

 

[billyb]

Oh okay, since you have left over do they eggs? Like chickens for food. All I know they them when they are fertile.

 

[ChickenGirl2010]

We started just gettting 15 for my b-day party a few years ago and I talked my mom in to letting us keep them we kepted 5 thee next year we got 15 more then we got some silkies later that year, the year after that we order from a hatchery and got 20 and a friend gave us a OEGB blue silver duck wing roo. and this year we are getting 30 form the same hatchery

 

[Silkie Chick]

Glad you enjoy chicken math as much as we have.

 

[musikfan6]

OK. Now I know what "chicken math" is. Being newbie here, I kept seeing this so I decided to finally read about it.

Mine isn't quite as dramatic as all of yours' out there, but basically I started out with the intention of getting 5. I changed my mind three days before and decided to get 7 instead. When I went to the hatchery to pick up my little ladies, they threw in an extra one for free, so now I have 8. In the school where I teach, the third graders incubate chicken eggs for their science project every year. The teacher has promised me any "leftovers" that the students do not take with them after all the eggs are hatched. So I could potentially end up with at least two more.

So yes, it never adds up correctly!

 

[mohillbilly]

So yes, it never adds up correctly!

yes it does 2+2 is always 10

 

[Betsy57]

I started out with 2, Red the Rooster and Goldie (in the picture to the left). First chickens I ever had or was around so wanted to start out small and learn. Then got 15 more but gave all but 6 of those away (had to order a minimum of 15 but only had room in the coop for 6 more). Then added 16 more to a new area and coop. Now today just ordered 21 more (built on to the original coop)! They'll be here in about a month. My family thinks I"m nuts but I'm enjoying them. I sell the eggs and can't keep up with the demand. That's it tho. No more building on. Costing a fortune in structures. I think I'm maxed out now. We'll see tho!

 

[Imissmyroofabio]

in my state of mine yes it does

yes it does 2+2 is always 10

 

[Queen of the chickens]

We started with 15 Pullets and 2 Cockerels. Four years later the math is so complicated, I can't tell you for sure.

 

[nicolets]

After reading a few pages of this thread... I'm convinced to build two of these coops! So, thanks, guys! Apparently they're infamously hard to build, because taking apart pallets is supposed to be hard. But, that will just insure that I don't overbuy ('cause I'm not buying any built coops nor am I buying any other plans). That may be impossible, but that's just one of my several insurances, so maybe it is.

My plans are to test 4 different breeds for 1-3 years before buying any others, which I will buy at the local TSC (they have limited selections at a time, so once I've got supplies and one, maybe two by the looks of this thread

, breed chosen, I'll be good!).
And thank goodness I found TSC! They're a life saver on costs -- my required minimum budget for 8-10 chickens & their first two months of life plummeted from $500

to right under $153

! Very proud - but someone please tell me where that is on the cost-o-meter (I'd hate to be celebrating overprice!)

!

With any more luck there'll be a couple coops & a run in my yard this summer, and [insert whatever number I end up with here] chicks soon to follow!

But I cannot tell a lie - I have been struck by chicken math. I just spent about the entire day doing chicken research! It was only supposed to be a couple hours!!!!!