Chicken Math Will Get You Every Time

[txhomegrown]

Thank goodness, I thought I was in trouble. So the 25 chicks I am thinking about ordering will be OK?

Seriously though, I am so happy to have chickens again. It has been quite a few years since I was able to have them and I sure have missed those eggs. I am happy to have found this forum. It gave me the kick in the butt I needed to get started again. Thanks

 

[Liamm_1]

Having (so far) 17 chickens, makes me realize how having more land would be great. I'd have more chickens, cows, pigs, goats, etc.
My dad grew up on a farm in Ireland, I guess it's in my blood. Maybe someday

 

[K9Carrie]

O.k. so I can kinda follow chicken math...until I start adding in the ducks...now it started with a cute rescue pair and one passed away so I needed to get a buddy for the 1st, but got two pair instead...still looking for a buddy for +1 and finding great people making me deals I can't resist....on pairs and even quads. Maybe I just need to make him a single indoor pet and stop while I am behind...I mean ahead?

Dare I ask...anyone in California have "ONE" black East Indie hen for sale????

 

[drumstick diva]

txhomegrown = Ha ha, Boy are you in the WRONG PLACE, if you want help with your addiction!

 

[ginormous chicken]

Along time ago.... in a galaxy far, far away.... there was a girl who wanted 3 chickens.

Let's see.. I have 8 and have order 7 chicks to be shipped to me in April. My DH asked why I didn't choose to hatch, and I didn't have the heart to tell him. If I tried to hatch I would want to keep them all.

Chickens are a HUGE addiction. There are so many puuurrttyy breeds and it just keeps going on and on....

Yes... you are looking at an addict

!

 

[TinkleTurkey]

This is the chicken's master plan to take over the world.
They act all cute and funny and convince you that you NEED them. Then, you find yourself blindly buying birds left and right and then feeling this strange complusion to hatch their eggs and take care of their babies. They make you think it was your idea, but its all their doing. Nothing about this is an accident.

They've had their eye on you, and now you're doomed.

Sorry.

 

[txhomegrown]

If you can't beat it, go wild with it!!

I have 5 acres that I am hoping to be living on in a few months(late Spring). I can build coops in the barn with outside access to the runs. Before it is over and done, I plan on having a boat load of chickens. Along with guineas and peafowl. I don't get along with geese and I don't trust ducks. Just look at how Donald and Daffy act.

There will be goats, a donkey to guard the goats and a pig or two. Gotta have bacon, ham or sausage to go with all those eggs. Make some cheese and learn to drink goat milk. All that is left is to grow me some taters and I will be good to go.

What addiction??? It's just an intense hobby.

 

[abqferreira]

We've had chickens for about a year now and I'm amazed by how frequently those numbers change! Started out with 5 (careful deliberation to choose that number), they were eaten by hawks, so back to zero. Made the family feel better by bringing home 5 more chicks, then went to get them food and brought home 8 more= 13. A few died as young'uns, then the banty went broody last summer so found someone with a handful of fertile eggs to get her to stop being broody. Ended up with 15 by the end of summer, then realized we had a few roos which had to go. We've been stable with 11 girls all winter, and for some reason found myself ordering 15 chicks this spring so we could get a few dark chocolate layers (minimum order, you see!). Did I mention we live on a 1/4 acre lot in suburbia? Yeah...I get that chicken math for sure...

 

[newchik715]

yeah i have to agree with some others here....i do not see the problem at all. sounds like you have the most wonderful little chicken farm...envious!

 

[ddroland]

Yep, I feel your pain. I was raised with chickens througout my youth and one day made the rash decision of grabbing a box full of mixed bantams at a yard sale. I had no coop and only 1 acre with a lot of close neighbors. Well I built a really nice little coop but tired of the constant good natured jabs by my neighbors about the crowing, even though I knew they were serious. So I moved!! Bought a beautiful old farmhouse on 10 acres and no neighbors, and the sad part it what sold me on the house was an old 40 foot long coop that needed a ton of work. After much work and pen building I now have 50 chickens, 6-7 different pure breeds, and now decided I want to start raising American Games which I have 16 eggs in the incubator right now. Bought a nice GQF Brooder just for the occasion, the insanity continues.

What really got my wife going was when I got a box in the mail with a full size Kelso/Sweater Stag in it. She then knew how far my illness has come.