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Yes, chicken math has bit me hard. It's gonna get me again next spring, I just know it. I have 17 egg layers right now, yesterday for the first time we got a dozen eggs in one day. I have no idea what I'm going to do with all these eggs if they ever stop selling at my husbands work, but I want more chickens in the spring. I love the wide variety I have now, and there's a few more that I would like to get. Like Hamburgs, just so I can call them Hamburgers.
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Thank goodness we're building another coop. I'm going to plan for the number I have, plus what I want, plus at least 10 more.
 
dennarahl said:
Yes, chicken math has bit me hard. It's gonna get me again next spring, I just know it. I have 17 egg layers right now, yesterday for the first time we got a dozen eggs in one day. I have no idea what I'm going to do with all these eggs if they ever stop selling at my husbands work, but I want more chickens in the spring. I love the wide variety I have now, and there's a few more that I would like to get. Like Hamburgs, just so I can call them Hamburgers.
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Thank goodness we're building another coop. I'm going to plan for the number I have, plus what I want, plus at least 10 more.
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I did some good chicken math justification yesterday. Re-homed two boys and replaced them with one pullet. My flock actually decreased so now I have a happy family of 5. Here is a pic of the new girl Hattie, what a sweetie! And the new addition on the run + a swing/perch.

 
I have resisted Chicken math. Chicken math is bad, chicken math is bad, repeated many times each day, preferably in a chanting mode..... Does that include turkeys?
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Got both sons committed to helping tomorrow morning, and a friend coming over as well. We should have these trusses installed by 10AM, before it gets warm!
 
:yuckyuck Finally got those boys into action eh?


dennarahl said:
Babies, we have babies! I didn't realize how much I've been missing having babies. They're in the dining room until the garage has been readied. I've been slacking. Doh!



I love when they're this little and they shake their little butts to poo. There are 3 cornish rocks (wanted to see how they do) and 24 black broilers from Ideal. One little chickie was DOA. :( And there is one more itty bitty that I'm worried about, but everybody else is looking great.
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Look at those little fluffballs! They are so cute! How long are you going to raise them for? I watched some videos I took of our girls from the first week we had them and it made me get teary-eyed. I miss having chickies too :hit

So I've been going over to Mo's to get my fluff fix :jumpy
 
wsmith said:
I have resisted Chicken math. Chicken math is bad, chicken math is bad, repeated many times each day, preferably in a chanting mode..... Does that include turkeys?
idunno.gif


Got both sons committed to helping tomorrow morning, and a friend coming over as well. We should have these trusses installed by 10AM, before it gets warm!
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I will be going to Fountain either today or tomorrow so will drop by your house. This time, I won't leave my phone at home so I can let you know i'm enroute. I still don't know what I ever did when I didn't have a cell phone and email.

Chicken math is hard with straight run though. I have 23 hens and 15 chicks running around too young to know what they are. I suspect half of them will be roos. I don't quite count banty hens as a full hen so that makes the count a little tougher too. I do know that right now, I have 2 cuckoo marans roos, with another suspected one and a black copper marans roo. I am assuming that over half of the chicks are males so I should be under the 35 chicken limit I placed on myself. I still have more building to do as I am opening up my garage now on the real hot days and one can imagine what a nightmare i have sweeping that up once a week. But like everything else, I learn by the experience of doing and for that, I can only thank my Gd.

Anyone out in the Falcon area with a truck to help me get some mulch in black forest?
 
mynamesjenelle said:
Look at those little fluffballs! They are so cute! How long are you going to raise them for? I watched some videos I took of our girls from the first week we had them and it made me get teary-eyed. I miss having chickies too
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So I've been going over to Mo's to get my fluff fix
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The Cornish Rocks, probably 7-8 weeks. The black ones will go until they're big enough which is hopefully just a week or two longer than the CRs. I do plan to withdraw food at night when they're a little older so they don't grow so fast that they have problems.
 

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