Chicken math

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Running the poultry fence BEHIND the shop did not hide it well enough!!DW noticed right off the bat. When I commented that I was going to be 25 ft short on wire she suggested i make it SMALLER! !! Not being aware of the subtle calculations and the myriad forces at work in chicken math I refrained from any smart remarks.
 
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JRNash said:
Running the poultry fence BEHIND the shop did not hide it well enough!!DW noticed right off the bat. When I commented that I was going to be 25 ft short on wire she suggested i make it SMALLER! !! Not being aware of the subtle calculations and the myriad forces at work in chicken math I refrained from any smart remarks.
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Wouldn't it be unfortunately if, when you went to get the extra 25 feet, they *only had 50 or 100 foot rolls* and so you had to make the whole thing bigger? After all, you wouldn't want to waste that extra 25-75 feet of fencing, right?
 
So I started a little over a year ago with six hens. I had done the math and only really needed 3 to supply enough eggs but TSC said minimum purchase was six, so six it was. I free range and the first year I lost two. So then I had 4 hens, gave away a dozen eggs every now and then. This spring I was thinking I needed to bring in a few more so when the first crew molts I could still be getting eggs... add 2 or 3 each year as some become part of the food chain or age out. So I went to a local farm store that had no minimums so I bought two Buff Orps and one RIR as my second generation girls. My electric fence decided to go kaput and one morning I lost all 4 of my mature layers to a predator. Fortunately the little girls were still in the crate in the coop so they were fine. Now I went from 7, down to 3 teenagers. Back I go to the farm store and buy 3 leghorns to bring me back up to six but I still have to buy eggs for a few months. :(

Now my teen BO & RIR are in the big girl coop and I'm introducing the little girls with a little hole in the inside coop mesh walls so they can explore the big girl area but retreat to their crate. This works well for a few days but the little girls went through the goat fence and one of my dogs caught one. I caught the culprit and the chick was fine so I hoped she learned her lesson but I put some plastic chicken wire on the goat fencing to keep them in. A few days later I think I see a neighbor dog with a chick in its mouth. It is clearly playing with something and is quite pleased, throwing it in the air and catching it, but I cannot get a clear view. I go out to the coop and I can't find my little girls anywhere.

Now I'm just irritated, so I go inside and place an order for 5 Easter Eggers and 4 white layers...figure I'm going to have plenty for the food chain. Remember, when I started I only wanted 3 hens. Went out to do a head check that night, lo and behold, my little girls are all tucked in the coop as are the big girls. They must have a great hiding spot in the run! Plus they are too big to fit through the goat fencing now anyway.

The new chicks will be shipping July 9, so I'll have 15 birds. It is amazing how I can rationalize it all away! LOL
 
JRNash said:
Running the poultry fence BEHIND the shop did not hide it well enough!!DW noticed right off the bat. When I commented that I was going to be 25 ft short on wire she suggested i make it SMALLER! !! Not being aware of the subtle calculations and the myriad forces at work in chicken math
I refrained from any smart remarks.
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Good idea lol.
 
Time for some subtraction, 8 of my cockerels (2 Buff wyadonette (love to crow), 4 BR, & 2 RIR) are 15 weeks old so time to go to freezer camp, 4 have been crowing off and on all day. Subtraction is great because it allows for multiplication next year.
 

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