Explaining Chicken Math

[Brandi Leigh]

Bought an incubator last night. It holds 42 eggs. Prepare for crazy! muhahaha!

 

[mattsinger]

Bought an incubator last night. It holds 42 eggs. Prepare for crazy! muhahaha!

Yep.....I had a bator follow me home last week. Now I have 15 eggs on their way ....should be here nearly next week. My wife thinks I'm crazy

 

[Chickens R Us]

I put an incubator on my wish list for my birthday, should have one within the week.

 

[annewandering]

My mom was apparently good at chicken math. She was a math lover to begin with. I know. Who loves math? Anyway we were talking chickens the other day. I knew we had chickens growing up but never realized how many. She said she had well over 200. As I remember they were leghorns and bantees. You can see one of the big roosters on my lap in my avatar.
I may not have inherited her love of math but I do know how to do math. said as I am trying to figure out how to raise chicks on my brooders when they grow up and count the chicks outside my 30 limit. Chicks are not really chickens. Right? Oh and I am thinking that my mom could use a start on a new flock with my extras!!

 

[JustinVero]

Haha, that is great!

 

[BullChick]

I didn't want more than 30 chickens.
I had 16 girls, and 2 boys. I was happy.
I was offered a BCM trio. Okay. They came with 2 Splash EE. Okay.
Chick Days, and I got 6 chicks. I talked myself out of more a few weeks ago, and DH asked (while we were still out) "so how many chicks are you getting today?" I only got 10 more (Yes, only!!). He then asked if I would be interested in an incubator.

I am up to 36 mouths to feed, and 14 eggs in the incubator. So much for my small flock, huh?

 

[allieszoo]

OH I feel so much better now! I have to show this thread to my husband so he doesn't keep thinking I have gone crazy.

So far this is how my math has worked out -- I wanted about 6-8 hens for eggs and then several CornishX for meat birds. The meat birds don't count at all because they won't be kept in the regular run and coop since they eat so different and have to be processed by 8 weeks (we have a seperate pen built for them) So...no meat birds in my chicken math. I had wanted to start with 6-8 pullets and I wanted red stars/rir reds, barred rocks and EE's they didn't have any EE's so I figured no biggie, get the others and order EE's when they have them. I had also read so much about how it was almost expected to lose a couple birds that I figured it would be good to have extras. Well one of my barred rock pullets is not very pullet like and is a boy for certain and I found some EE's so I figured well....I will order some EE's and another BR pullet...but...oh wait...look at the buff orpingtons! I really wanted some of those....and OMG they have Sicilian Buttercups....OMG OMG OMG....I desperately wanted one of those and could not find any....wait....now I need extra to fill the box...well since they are mail order chicks I should order some extra anyway in case any arrive dead or sick or oh wow....leghorns.....well I just order a few extra of everything just to be safe and how hard could it be to give away a few pullets if I end up with too many? Better safe then sorry!! And what if I end up with another pullet that ends up being a boy....

Anyway, right now my 6 is at 16. But in my head I am not counting the pullet that is a rooster so it's only 15 and then the three extra I ordered so it is actually only 12.

so yea 6 = 12 my head.

that all makes sense to you all right cause no matter how many times I explain it the husband he just looks at me weird.

 

[CyndiChick]

I feel so much better now... Our Chicken Math can totally blame on my friends that gave us the original set. They said they had a 4x4x4 cage with one hen and one rooster we could have and one other hen they were wanting to sell. So that would be 3 right? Well apparently the hen they wanted to sell... also came with 9 chicks. So somehow the 3 turned into 12.... *sigh* Hubby just looked at me and said something about "blonde math" LOL
And the smallish coop we were going to build turned into a 16 ft by 14 ft, 9 foot tall monstrosity we are about to add on to... But we love 'em so who cares what the math is right?
And the math continues- went to buy 4 chicks at the local swap... came home with 12 LOL

 

[annewandering]

Uh oh my 17 just turned into 19 because my husband told me after I ordered the others that he likes colors in chickens. Ok THIS two is HIS fault. He is learning CM. ^^

 

[lghrnlvr]

Wow i have finally diagnosed my disorder. Chicken Math. lol
It started years ago with 5 cute fuzzy chicks and a purple guinea hen.
Fast forward to last year. Gramps pulled out an old rabbit hutch and said he wanted some chickens. i was shopping at tsc one day and came across discounted white leghorn chicks. who can pass up discounted chicks? So six of them came home with me. cramps tells me that night that he wants adult chickens. so the biddies stay with me. my friends son had to get rid of his chickens so i got them for gramps. that brought us up to 17 hens and 2 roosters. after a bad year with predators we were down to 2 white leghorns, 1 GLW, 1 light Brahma roo and a RIR roo for a total of 5. another trip to tsc and found more discounted leghorn chicks!! They were only $1 apiece cuz one was beat and bloody. plus i have 3 eggs in my homemade incubator.
So 6+13=19- 14=5+2=7+???
I love chicken math. oh yeah. i might be picking up a new roo in 2 weeks
i feel like i should add this because i suffer from other types of animal math too. lol
1 dog became 2. Turned into 4. Went back to 2. Turned back into 4. 3 days ago turned into 17 with the birth of a very healthy and very large litter of pups.