Explaining Chicken Math

[kynewbchickie]

Lol I got one for ya. 3 years ago my husband and I were at tsc and on a whim bought chicks ( 2 Dominiques, 2 rir, & cr's)=6. 2 weeks later a friend gave us day old chicks, 4 rir's, and 4 white rocks= 14. 2 days after Easter my hubby came home with a present, 4 pekin ducklings, 4 mallard ducklings, 4 australorp chicks and 3 barred rock chicks= 21 chicks and 8 ducklings. My hubby builds a coop the next weekend. Fast foward a year and a half, we lost some to neighbors dog and lost 2 due to a frost. Brought us down to 11 hens and 5 roosters, 6 duck hens and 2 drakes. We went to a flea market and bought some bananas and 2 magpie duck hens. Fast foward to the present and we now have 14 grown hens (ameracauna, BR, Dominique, mixed, and RIR, Red star, EE, Leghorn,& Delaware), 2 grown roosters(buff orpington), 2bantam roosters(white game and bb red), 9 bantam hens(white game &mix), 31 chicks(all mix), &22 ducklings( mallard, pekin, magpie, 1 cayunga, and some mix). My hubby hid my incubator last week and says he isn't giving it back till next year. :-(

ROTFL!

Mine has threatened taking away my debit/ATM card. He put the brakes on any past 30. (I still stay that's just this year, because we're going to be down a few roos this fall anyway. I can at least let a broody hatch out a few eggs to replace those, right?)

He says - ahem - h*ll no.

LOL

 

[kynewbchickie]

I would hide all his underwear

YES!!! I concur!

 

[annewandering]

I have 5 acres so that means i can have 75 SWEET!

Turns out I was wrong! It is 30 chickens per acre!!! So that would be 150 chickens for you! There are lots of people who have farms inside the city limits too so it could be a huge number of chicks in town if everyone got them!

 

[chickenfinatic]

My hubby and his favorite hen shes a bantam, silkie, ee, polish cross.

 

[kynewbchickie]

My hubby and his favorite hen shes a bantam, silkie, ee, polish cross.

BEAUTIFUL girl!!!

 

[Thistlelady]

I can only have 10 hens where I live (middle of downtown Colorado Springs). My DH finally agreed after 4 years that we could get 4. So we got 2 barred rocks that are 7 weeks old and 3 Easter eggers that are 1 week old. I may also get a blue laced red wyandotte from a friend of a friend in a few weeks. 4 = 6 So glad we built the coop for the max amount of girls we can own.

 

[Coralietg]

Oh, chicken math. Haha.

We had 7. 7 got killed by a raccoon. Ordered 25 from McMurray, only 2 survived (+2). McMurray resent, all but 4 survived (+24). Spotted some at TSC that I liked, plus some Americaunas and a BA from a feedstore (+16). Unfortunate dog attack killed 34. 4 survived the attack, plus 4 that were brooding in the house (8). Moved 3 outside, leaving a little crossed-beak in the house, and got him/her 20 friends (+20). We have an order coming from Meyer in less than 2 weeks, which should be +18.

Phew.

Our original loss of 7, should be turning into having 46 chickens.

Chicken math for us works this way. A chicken gets hit by a car, we want to replace the chicken. I don't want a new chick to be lonely, so I get 3 or 4. Lol.

 

[OlivesMama]

We lost a chick yesterday and my husband was going to try and make me feel better by stopping to get a replacement on his way home from work. Well, he didn't remember until halfway home and was past the feed store! Awww, it's the thought that counts! So, I think I have permission to go pick out my replacement. I can't get just one chick that is younger so I'll probably come home with 2. 1 = 2, right?

 

[annewandering]

We lost a chick yesterday and my husband was going to try and make me feel better by stopping to get a replacement on his way home from work. Well, he didn't remember until halfway home and was past the feed store! Awww, it's the thought that counts! So, I think I have permission to go pick out my replacement. I can't get just one chick that is younger so I'll probably come home with 2. 1 = 2, right?

Makes perfect sense to me~!! Three would be even better!

 

[BrendaJ]

Love all the chicken math stories - feel right at home