Chicken math

[tinakevin]

That was my plan as well. To cull and replace BUT that's not how it went. I did add 12 more tho and I have 6 spitzenhaubens on the way. I just can't kill my first hens I'm way too attached. Let's hope I don't get attached to my meat bird I ordered 20 red rangers. Lol

 

[collie1470]

Our new babies should arrive tomorrow. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight haha.

 

[jstanard]

Tomorrow is almost here! You will get to meet your babies! I got mine today, and I love them already! I also have my bator maxed out. I am planning on meat birds as well this year. I butchered my first chicken myself this week.

 

[collie1470]

Nice! I butchered my first in the fall. We ended up with like 7 more cockerels than we needed. My fiancé bragged about me doing it by myself to the guys at work haha. I thought it was cute.

 

[collie1470]

The shipping stop before my post office called me earlier to make sure I knew they'd be ready for pick up in my town in the morning, and to let me know they were cheery and peeping. I was blown away by how considerate it was.

 

[ChickAsThieves]

Started with 6 pullets 3 years ago. Now I have about 23 hens, 1 roo, and 3 eggs in the bator. I've got plans to set 7 eggs for the Easter Hatch Along! There will never never never be enough chickens!

 

[tastyacres]

I had to sell all my chickens when we moved this past year but I went from 8 to 75 in 2-weeks! I can't wait to get chickens again!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Chicken math lol.
Here that went this way.
Several years of me asking for chickens and DH saying no.
Finally he caved. I wanted 6 BA. He did not want just black chickens. Came home with 2 each of EE, BA and California whites.
Time passes and I still want more BA. Efforts to get a few resulted in accidental roosters..... Had to rehome and they took the pullets with them. More efforts to get them resulted in a lot more chickens but still just the 2 BA. Some were in pens getting picked naked, cannot just leave them there. Some were from driving a hundred miles one way to find that even though we were assured there were BA there, not a one at all. Each time we came home with birds, just no BA.
Finally after 6 years I got lucky and now have a total of 6 BA.

That being said.......
Highest count of hens......42.
Current count......21 (6 are BA).
Hubby chose most of the others so those do not count.
1 is broody so does not count.
1 is a non layer bantam so does not count for both reasons = -2.
I get about 9 eggs a day so 9 are laying.
There are 7 nest boxes so that means there are only 7 chickens!
BUT.... I have only 3 water dishes!!! That means there can be only 3 chickens!
WAIT..... There are only 2 feeders!!! That takes the number down to 2 since 2 feeders means only 2 chickens!!!!



UM!!!! There was a -2 above so 2-2=0. 0


I need more chickens!!!!

 

[The Golden Egg5]

Chicken math lol.
Here that went this way.
Several years of me asking for chickens and DH saying no.
Finally he caved. I wanted 6 BA. He did not want just black chickens. Came home with 2 each of EE, BA and California whites.
Time passes and I still want more BA. Efforts to get a few resulted in accidental roosters..... Had to rehome and they took the pullets with them. More efforts to get them resulted in a lot more chickens but still just the 2 BA. Some were in pens getting picked naked, cannot just leave them there. Some were from driving a hundred miles one way to find that even though we were assured there were BA there, not a one at all. Each time we came home with birds, just no BA.
Finally after 6 years I got lucky and now have a total of 6 BA.

That being said.......
Highest count of hens......42.
Current count......21 (6 are BA).
Hubby chose most of the others so those do not count.
1 is broody so does not count.
1 is a non layer bantam so does not count for both reasons = -2.
I get about 9 eggs a day so 9 are laying.
There are 7 nest boxes so that means there are only 7 chickens!
BUT.... I have only 3 water dishes!!! That means there can be only 3 chickens!
WAIT..... There are only 2 feeders!!! That takes the number down to 2 since 2 feeders means only 2 chickens!!!!



UM!!!! There was a -2 above so 2-2=0. 0


I need more chickens!!!!

I actually laughed out loud! That is hallarious!!!

 

[SunHwaKwon]

The shipping stop before my post office called me earlier to make sure I knew they'd be ready for pick up in my town in the morning, and to let me know they were cheery and peeping. I was blown away by how considerate it was.

That was very nice of them. If I worked in a PO I would do the same!