Chicken math

[TheEggCollecter]

I've had enough bad luck with shipped eggs! Not sure if I will ship eggs, maybe in a couple of years (who knows!). I still need to get my flock established. I have Lavender Ameraucanas (as well as EE's), Buff Brahmas (soon to aquire blacks), English Orpingtons, and soon to be my pride and joy, Scots Dumpys, to be recived in July!!!.

I too want to get more into genitics. I have a crazy dream to create Dumpy Ameraucanas!!!

Dumpy Ameracaunas!!!

 

[n3kms]

I've had enough bad luck with shipped eggs!  Not sure if I will ship eggs, maybe in a couple of years (who knows!). I still need to get my flock established.  I have Lavender Ameraucanas (as well as EE's),  Buff Brahmas (soon to aquire blacks), English Orpingtons, and soon to be my pride and joy, Scots Dumpys, to be recived in July!!!.

I too want to get more into genitics.  I have a crazy dream to create Dumpy Ameraucanas!!!

Wow. Hadn't even heard of Scot's Dumpy. Had to look them up. The black ones look a lot like the Black Java. Very pretty.
You know, I'm not unintelligent. I was always pretty good at math and I am a Labor and Delivery nurse. But that genetics is kind of hard stuff to figure generation to generation. But I'm going to keep studying on it and maybe a light bulb will go off.

 

[lereg15]

I just found out last night that my chicken math is going the wrong way. The coop that I was building is not in the place to where my landlord/ father in law, will accept it, for whatever reason. I planned on an 11x8 coop, but now it looks like I will only be able to make a 8x4 coop on the side of the house. So that's a 6 chicken difference, for the worse. I guess it could be a good thing for me, since I'm just starting out, but I was hoping for at least 12. Bummer!

 

[DCortez]

I started with one found rooster in July, now have 12 hens, 2 roosters, 17 chicks (better be girls), and 23 more on order to be delivered in June.

Chicken Math.

 

[lereg15]

I'll have to wait until we move to get more now, it seems like. I'll be stuck with about 8 until then. At least I'll have experience when it comes to having an actual flock of my own!!

 

[SFrati]

I promised my neighbors I would get 3 chickens and keep the number low and give them lots of eggs. My plans were tarnished when I saw that Meyer Hatchery can give you an additional free chick if you donate the eggs. 3+1=4

Four chicks arrived at my house and I loved them so much. One little guy didnt make it so I called up the hatchery and they told me that I could in another order with FREE SHIPPING! but there was a minimum of 3 chicks. 4-1+3=6

So, three more chicks were added to my flock. On a fall evening I forgot to close the coop and something got in and killed my favorite pullet. 6-1=5

The neighbors like the eggs! SCORE! I got the opportunity to hatch chicks in my classroom. Why would I hatch chicks and then return them??!?! I think 3 more will be coming home to live with me. But what if some of them are roosters? I am hatching Leghorns and some kind of bantam. It is my understand that you cant tell their gender without vent sexing because of the type of plumage. I should get a few more just to ensure I am keeping hens. 5+4 (or maybe 5)=????

It never stops does it??

 

[ekalbach]

We recently got 6 chicks, 3 rir, and 3 barred rocks,on Wednesday from our local southern states. One of our barred rocks didn't make it. My daughter had named her sweet pea. I felt bad so I decided we needed to get another one to replace sweet pea. 6 silkies later we now have 11 chicks. And I have no idea how to tell if they are male or female. But they are all so cute!

 

[n3kms]

I promised my neighbors I would get 3 chickens and keep the number low and give them lots of eggs. My plans were tarnished when I saw that Meyer Hatchery can give you an additional free chick if you donate the eggs. 3+1=4

Four chicks arrived at my house and I loved them so much. One little guy didnt make it so I called up the hatchery and they told me that I could in another order with FREE SHIPPING! but there was a minimum of 3 chicks. 4-1+3=6

So, three more chicks were added to my flock. On a fall evening I forgot to close the coop and something got in and killed my favorite pullet. 6-1=5

The neighbors like the eggs! SCORE! I got the opportunity to hatch chicks in my classroom. Why would I hatch chicks and then return them??!?! I think 3 more will be coming home to live with me. But what if some of them are roosters? I am hatching Leghorns and some kind of bantam. It is my understand that you cant tell their gender without vent sexing because of the type of plumage.  I should get a few more just to ensure I am keeping hens. 5+4 (or maybe 5)=????

It never stops does it??

I know the hatcheries want I encourage chicken math but "free chicks" that is just not fair.

 

[n3kms]

I'll have to wait until we move to get more now, it seems like. I'll be stuck with about 8 until then. At least I'll have experience when it comes to having an actual flock of my own!!

We live in a neighborhood with great neighbors. We have a nearly 2 acre lot but after my twins graduate high school next year I hope to move to where we can have a lot more land and no immediate neighbors. Then, watch out, chicken math with exponents.

 

[Scruffyfeathers]

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That is a real bummer. I was waiting with great anticipation to see how you would finish out the area below the deck. I'll bet it would have been worth seeing