Chicken Math

[Mybackyardpeepers]

Would make it much easier to get some cute breeds if my husband stayed home. He just likes chicks doesn’t matter what they are. “Oh look let’s get some”. No I’ve ordered 6 females. Because out of raising up 13 chicks I only got to keep 7. No roosters!!!!!!!

I wish he would be that interested, he was worried about the new ones we got mailed so I was impressed. I have 5 silkies I want to exchange or rehome a couple then replace. Hubby isn't quite on board yet.

 

[Gferna19]

Chicken Math is REAL!!!!!
I wanted chickens, my boyfriend didn't. We compromised and got the rental program (2 baby chicks and 7 eggs) , so my daughter can experience the "whole" hatching process. 21 days after, we fell in love. (5 hatched) and a year after we are at 30 chickens and 3 just hatched Saturday ohhh... and 4 Ducks

Those 3 are my new grankids

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Chicken Math is REAL!!!!!
I wanted chickens, my boyfriend didn't. We compromised and got the rental program (2 baby chicks and 7 eggs) , so my daughter can experience the "whole" hatching process. 21 days after, we fell in love. (5 hatched) and a year after we are at 30 chickens and 3 just hatched Saturday ohhh... and 4 Ducks

Those 3 are my new grankids

Whats this "rental program"? Sounds like a gateway drug. I know I'm hooked!

 

[danceswithronin]

Supposed to have 3, got 5 because I got an extra silkie in case a chick died in shipping (none did). So I ended up with four silkies and my mystery chick, a Plymouth White rooster that I rehomed because rooster. Back down to four. Had one silkie killed by a dog.

Decided to order "a few more" because three didn't seem like enough. Ordered four more - all different breeds. Then I ordered 3 Orps and a mystery chick. Also decided to incubate a dozen bielefelders. Ended up with three bielefelders, four chicks from the hatchery, and my three chickens outside. Rehomed the remaining silkies. Turning into a chicken lunatic at this point.

Bought two more chicks to go with the four in the brooder. Rehomed two of the bielefelders and two of my hatchery chicks. Lost another bird to dogs. So now I have four teenagers in the run and three new chicks in the brooder - all I have left is the blue and lavender Orps and the one female bielefelder chick I kept.

Still thinking about adding a Polish chick to the brooder if I can find one locally to replace the Polish hen I lost this weekend. But I've basically lost my kitchen pass because I am almost 5 chickens over my initial maximum quota and incubated a dozen hatching eggs in secret before I was found out, lol.

3 + 2 = 5 - 2 = 3 + 4 = 7 + 2 = 9 + 12 = 21 - 9 = 12 - 4 = 8 - 1 = 7 and a half (have one solitary egg left in the incubator).

TLDR: 3 chickens = 5 chickens = 8 chickens = CUT OFF.

 

[Gferna19]

Whats this "rental program"? Sounds like a gateway drug. I know I'm hooked!

It's called rent a coop. And they give you everything you need to have them for almost a month. That's what started all

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

It's called rent a coop. And they give you everything you need to have them for almost a month. That's what started all

Is there a rent to own?

 

[SurferchickinSB]

Well of course, and I want multiple colors lol.

I bet you will end up getting five or six!

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Is there a rent to own?

Just looked online and found it. Its not in my area. But what a great idea. I bet those folks are making BANK. Especially since only HALF the rental fee goes towards the coop...and if you dont want to buy them...THEY get to keep them. Genius. Pure genius.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

You start a bachelor flock. It's my favorite run on the place!View attachment 1788223
My four escapees - all Nankin Bantams - crowding around the front of the hens' run. The OEGB & Silkie roos are still inside the Bachelor Pad Run ... either really smart, or not-so-bright. Actually, just really sweet, and bribe-able!

If I could have roosters, I think I would just get roosters. They are so beautiful and it would be really cool to have a bachelor pad!

 

[John Varner]

This has me smiling big time, we started with 4 hens 3 years ago with a 4’ x 12’ with the run tractor coop, since then we got a small brooder coop, and a permanent 6’ x 8’ coop with a 11’ x 22’ run. One of our first hens, a Jersey Giant went broody 2 years ago so my wife Tana had a friend who gave us a dozen fertilized eggs, 7 hatched, sex links, with 3 little Roos, only one of the cockerels survived but it started the expansion. We had a little Americana go broody and she hatched 6 then a Rhode Island Red hatched 3 three weeks later. We were up to 26 chicks, hens and roosters. We think a hawk got one of our little hens then one hen we found dead in the nesting box. 3 weeks ago something got in the yard and got 2 hens and one of the older chicks. We sold 3 of the pullets so we are down to 10 hens, 3 roosters and 5 chicks with one being a cockerel. Loosing any of our flock is sad but we do love our chickens. When I go outside and whistle it’s like a heard of dinosaurs running at you expecting a treat