Chicken math

[blkjak]

I sold 12 adult silkies last week but hatched out 13 silkie chicks. Set 20 more silkie eggs today. Chicken math at its finest.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I did not read this entire thread, but the few that I did read I surmised that most of you are small timers.  (No offense to anyone...) You guys went to get 3 chicks and ended up with 8 or ten.  Well, my wife says my curse is doing things big....

She wanted chickens and took 7 adults that needed re-homing (we did not even have chickens and I was against getting them).  That was last August.

Now (counting my 3 day old chicks) we have 59....  Now that is chicken math..... (don't ask, it is all her fault....)

We started 2 years ago and my husband complained about us having 19 when we agreed on 14. Fast forward to today and counting all the babies we have about 42 chickens in the main coop, 20-ish babies in the garage brooder 5 chicks in the screen porch brooder along with 7 meaties. And then there are the turkeys....5 outside and 9 poults in the screen porch brooder. And NONE of that even counts the chicks and poults I have hatched to sell (add another 30 lol).

Edited to add, forgot the 4 silkies and 8 polish chicks in the house too lol

 

[IzziesChickies]

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I did not read this entire thread, but the few that I did read I surmised that most of you are small timers.  (No offense to anyone...) You guys went to get 3 chicks and ended up with 8 or ten.  Well, my wife says my curse is doing things big....

She wanted chickens and took 7 adults that needed re-homing (we did not even have chickens and I was against getting them).  That was last August.

Now (counting my 3 day old chicks) we have 59....  Now that is chicken math..... (don't ask, it is all her fault....)

I have over 200 birds. I started with a laying flock of around 50 chickens about 4-5 years ago. I now have 12 ducks, 2 geese, 160 chickens, 8 guineas, and have had turkeys (for thanksgiving). And it's still adding, my incubator is full of duck eggs. So no, not everyone started small

I'm an exception

 

[chickendreams24]

Lol last May we started by ordering five buff Orpingtons we had over 17 chicks by the time we got them. And had 30 before we rang in the new year. This year my limit has been upgraded by DH2B to 40 we'll see if I can stay under it.

Next year we get buckeyes cochins and hopefully ducks maybe quail

 

[collie1470]

Well, since only 2 of our buff orpingtons appear to be pullets....we clearly needed more chicks. On a serious note, though....these babies needed love ASAP. This wasn't our TSC and this one's workers didn't even care that there were silkies with some serious pasty butt (I mentioned it and got blown off). I got the 6 that had it bad, so I could give them a shot.

 

[mamatink7]

I started with 6 and now have 180 layer hens and 4 rooster s and run a small chicken business.... small but growing.lol. gotta love chicken math.

whew!! I actually am thinking this as well. When we were going to start chickens (we moved to the country 4yrs ago) kids started asking who wants the eggs, we would've needed 30+chicks just to fulfill those orders; both personal customers and small businesses. Now I'm already looking into starting to hatch them with fertile eggs and incubator- we haven't even picked our chicks up yet! Could you send me little info on how you started (pm) ? Please

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Well, since only 2 of our buff orpingtons appear to be pullets....we clearly needed more chicks. On a serious note, though....these babies needed love ASAP. This wasn't our TSC and this one's workers didn't even care that there were silkies with some serious pasty butt (I mentioned it and got blown off). I got the 6 that had it bad, so I could give them a shot.

Isn't it horrible how they don't seem to care at all?

 

[AlHawk]

Isn't it horrible how they don't seem to care at all?

It is terrible, however, many of those people who work there are just there for exorbitant hourly wages and awesome benefts. Not animal lovers/owners.

 

[knightgang]

Well, I did not think that the actual formula for Chicken math would strike me, but I got a small hit. Saturday, I found one of my barred rock chicks dead in the brooder. No apparent reason that I could see. Had not noticed any acting sick, slow or lethargic.

There was one Barred Rock the night before that was pulling other chicks around the brooder by their feet. I caught that one doing that 3 or 4 times. No one got hurt in that. I am not sure if that one just went crazy and then passed due to some reason I could not see.

All of the others appear to be extremely healthy and content. No other rambunctiousness in in the brooder and they are all alert, eating drinking and thriving.

 

[silkiechickens8]

So currently I have these adults
Hens-
2 Barred Rocks
2 Rhode Island Reds
4 EEs
1 Golden Laced Wyandotte
1 Partridge Rock
2 Australorps
2 White Leghorns
1 Black Sexlink
1 Black New Jersey Giant?
1 Blue Partridge Silkie
1 Speckled Sussex
1 Gold Sexlink
1 White Bearded Polish
1 White Crested Black Polish Bantam
1 Black d'Uccle Bantam

Roosters-
Mille Fleur Cochin Bantam
Black Breasted Olde English Game Bantam
Silver Lakenvelder

Chicks-
2 Blue Cochin females
3 Black Sumantra females
1 Silver Laced Wyandotte female

My roosters are currently separated from my hens because I don't know how I would feel about eating fertilized eggs. So ,of course, tomorrow I'm off too the feed store to get them some ladies (can't have my boys lonely can we? And getting rid of or eating them is DEFIANTLY not an option.) so they chicks I have now are eventually going to go into the main coop with the other girls so now I need to get some hens for my boys. So tomorrow I'm getting some Naked Necks, New Jersey Giants, Sicilian Buttercups,Buff Orpingtons, Buff Brahmas, Light Brahmas, Cuckoo Marans. In a few days I'll be getting a few Silkies, some Old English(standard size), and Pekin Ducks (yes there is such thing as duck math).And then in May some Houdans, Anconas, Salmon Faverolle, Thailand, Buff Minorca, Black Minorca, some Cochins, Silver Spangled Hamburg (some of these are going to my Roos while some Aretha going to be with my ladies in the main coop).

Got more!
1 more RIR (she has no tongue so I took her she's 7 weeks old and is the same size as my 4 week olds)
2 mottled Cochin bantams
1 Dark Cornish
1 Golden Sebright
2 White Silkies
2 Sicillian Buttercups
3 Black New Jersey Giants
2 White Plymouth Rocks
2 Buff Orpingtons
4 Naked Necks
1 Cuckoo Maran
1 more Speckled Sussex
2 Buff Brahmas
Picking up 4 Pekin ducklings and Houdans and Anconas on the 18th.

Hoping to get a Serama or two this year along with a few more silkies. Also could be getting an incubator soon.........