Explaining Chicken Math

[BullChick]

i am laughing so hard! im reading these posts to my H n he is telling me were all crazy. i told him2wks ago i wanted chickens n he said k but no mre than 6. i said ummm K. a wk later we r at Rural King n before we know it theres 6 RIR N 6 Quineas in the cart. Three days later im there getting hardware cloth n the ISAs r callinf my name so i talk the sales lady into letting me have just 3. (6 is the min. but she remembered me from Fri.) so now i have 15 chicks!! n instead of a nice small coop we r looking at 8×12 s!! lol oh n when we were at the check out he turns to me n says NO MORE n of course i say k. he nos me n says really Lynn NO MORE HAHAHA!!!! snicker!!

no more" as in, "no more asking him first" or as in, "no more than twenty or sixty... this year "?

 

[PrairieChickens]

I too have experienced the mysteries of chicken math. I started out this season intending to replace the 10 birds or so we'd lost over the course of last year, and instead ended up with nearly 20 more. I didn't realize I wasn't the only one.

The thread here has inspired me to create this t-shirt: http://www.zazzle.com/chicken_math_t_shirt-235358010632569466

 

[CyndiChick]

Oh wow I love that. I'm going to have to order a couple. Several of my friends have problems with chicken math too!

 

[The Hen]

Loved your story. I can relate. A friend of mine had 15 chickens for eggs so i wanted fresh eggs which meant i had to have chickens. She found out she was allergic to eggs so this was perfect for me. She gave me 4 of her chickens to get started

. I decided to turn an old shed into the coop which meant my husband the perfectionist had to do some renovating inside AND out (he had to reside it and put two new double hung windows in)

. I eventually lost one of my favorites

. Then this past winter i acquired 10 more chickens and a rooster from a friends brother. Threw them all together in the coop/pen because of the snow and had no other place to quarantine. I then lost one more original and two of the new ones. I was then down to 7 hens and the rooster. DH agreed i could get 4 chicks so we went to family farm & home and came home with 10 chicks

. Now i have 10 chicks, 7 hens, and a rooster. I wanted a duck and meat chickens, but husband put his foot down. I went back to family farm & home and almost came home with a pot belly piglet, but again husband said he is getting to old for all these animals

and he is the one who stays home to take care of them plus 4 big dogs when son, friends, & I go camping.

Now the hard part is going to be integrating them

. My husband has told me several times now "you need to let me know in advance what you are going to do with the chicks and the hens so i have time to build something if i have to. Don't let me know on the spur of the moment so i only have a weekend to do it." He's such a wonderful hubby to put up with me like he does

.

I could definitely get chicken addicted. I love to sit and just watch them and take pictures. The babies are way too funny when they get to have recess outside. I just love them.

 

[The Hen]

I am also hoping to hatch some of my own at some point. Not sure when or how though.

 

[BullChick]

Loved your story. I can relate. A friend of mine had 15 chickens for eggs so i wanted fresh eggs which meant i had to have chickens. She found out she was allergic to eggs so this was perfect for me. She gave me 4 of her chickens to get started

Did you know people with chicken egg allergies can eat duck eggs?

 

[PrairieChickens]

Quote: I didn't know that. That's cool to know.

I used to think I might be allergic to eggs because everytime I ate them, I felt sick. When our hens started laying, I couldn't resist trying one of their eggs, so I cooked some up. Much to my surprise, they didn't make me ill at all! I finally figured it had to be all the antibiotics they feed factory hens. Since our hens are "organic", there was none of that extra garbage in the eggs to make me sick.

 

[CyndiChick]

My chicken math took a hit yesterday... I was ordering a couple because of my son's birthday on Friday, to replace the ones we lost that were his.

So I got ahold of Ideal and wound up with 5 black and 5 blue Cochins, 2 gold laced cochins, and 2 barred cochins. So me ordering 2 or 3 to replace my sons... turned into 14! LOL

 

[afarhat8]

cyndichick,

i just checked out your chicken math, and you get a gold star. ( 2 or 3 chicks) = (14 chicks).

keep up the good work.

afarhat

 

[PrairieChickens]

Nicely done.