Chicken math

[curious chickee]

All 3 of those are on the Livestock Conservation list in one category or another. My thought was that even if I couldn't get the best of the best from Ideal, I could do a.breeding project where I culled those that did not meet the standard and bred successive venerations of the best offspring until I developed good stock. I still think that it is possible but I will choose another source to replace those I lost. I also want a Houdan trio, a Holland trio, a Sultan trio, and a Le Fleche trio in addition to the broilers for my freezer.

It would take many generations and heavy culling to get a hatchery bird up to APA/ABA standard.

I have my show quality birds,but those cute chicks at tractor supply are hard to resist. 6 silver leghorn jumped into my cart for my layer pen. I can't breed white eggs for my rainbow egg collection.

 

[DeYoungs]

chicks arriving and wife asks every day, wonder how long it will be!

 

[Magnolia7330]

It's good my city limits me to 6. I have 4 arriving in April. It's been really hard not to add two more to the order.

 

[LadyVictorian]

Chicken math strikes again...

So I have my 4 silkies moved outside into their coop and almost the exact same day we got a chick into my work with wry neck. Moved her into the back for the day and knew that this wasn't just something they get over on her own so my boss let me take her and a second chick home for companionship. 6 chickens officially at my house...

Plus the 8 I have on order, plus 2 cream legbars I am now buying locally and I am going back and forth on a friend of mine with polish chicks who has them for sale and wondering if I should get one or two to add with the 2 I currently have so they feel less lonely since my little wry neck baby is eat and drinking on her own and getting around very well. She even perches and flies a little and tries to climb things.

 

[nenebynature]

I read and dreamed of chickens for several years before I got 4 hens this past fall from a family member who didn't want to over winter them. I told myself that four was enough. Four is plenty. Then I went to the feed store with my mom. Doh! She twisted my arm and I agreed to get six babies. Left with eight. Now I'm thinking I need a couple more to round it out to 10 babies.... my family already thought I was a crazy chicken lady after two months with four hens. Maybe I need to start on another coop and run....

 

[csneill]

I read and dreamed of chickens for several years before I got 4 hens this past fall from a family member who didn't want to over winter them. I told myself that four was enough. Four is plenty. Then I went to the feed store with my mom. Doh! She twisted my arm and I agreed to get six babies. Left with eight. Now I'm thinking I need a couple more to round it out to 10 babies.... my family already thought I was a crazy chicken lady after two months with four hens. Maybe I need to start on another coop and run....

And so it begins... lol

 

[nenebynature]

And so it begins... lol

I know! I'm glad there are others of you out there that I understand how great having chickens can be. No one I know understands!

 

[csneill]

I started w 6 chicks & 3 ducks 2 years ago. Many have come & gone. Now we have 12 hens, 2 roosters, 2 ducks, 6 chicks in the brooder, 6 eggs in the incubator & plans for 2 more ducks this spring. I get it... I'm also the crazy chicken lady!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Had 21. Broody NEEDED babies. Gave broody 4. Went to feed store two weeks later got 4 more. Ten on order coming in 2 weeks.

The math is to hard. Imma stick with two coops equals two chickens but a broody is minus one and she is a bantam so minus one again. That means there are NO chickens here at all.


just don't look in the back yard.

 

[jenvander]

I have chickens for the first time, I was going to get three, at most four, and I got five. They are three weeks old and I'm already thinking of what kind I might want to add to the flock next year