Explaining Chicken Math

[CasieD]

We need a guide to more acronyms that that! How about all the initials for all the chicken breeds? Before I became indoctrinated, BO meant something very different than "buff orpington!" And when the knowledgeable people let out all the stops, it's absolutely mind-boggling. Anybody want to start up a list for newbies before somebody sees BA and thinks we're making an exhibitionist statement!

--Nikki

Here's a thread with a ton of abbrv. and definitions! HTH! (hope that helps)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/184/chicken-dictionary-for-dummies/10#post_1638

 

[shadow rabbit10]

You know you're addicted to chickens when you try to spell "foul", and always write "fowl"
(every time...)

 

[StelleKitten]

My chicken math...

When I first started I wanted one chicken. We went to the feed store to get the one chicken. DH and I were told to come back in the spring. Spring rolled around and we had talked ourselves into two chickens. We went knowing that each of us were going to get a chicken. We picked out one each. I picked out a buff orpington and he picked out a rhode island red. We brought the little peeps home and found out my nephew wanted one, as did the room mate and my sister. So we went back and got 2 white leghorns, 2 more rhode island reds, and 3 black australorps. At this point we are up to 9. We get them to almost a month old and ran out of that first bag of food.

Back at the feedstore they had a batch of banties come in. My DH fell in love with a partridge cochin banty. I agreed to let him have it since it was just the most adorable little fuzzball. At about that time I noticed something was messing with my foot (I wear sandals year round) and down there was what looked like a little chickadee chick. It was a banty chick of some sort. That is how I got chickadee.

Another month passes and we notice that the neighbors behind us have a rooster. (We lived in a place where there were lots of chickens in town, so we didn't know where the roosters lived, just heard them all the time) The rooster was doing his best to get my girls to wander over to him. And I couldn't have that. So I headed back to the feed store to see if she had any roosters. And boy did she, there was an adorable gigantic roo there that I will never know for sure what breed he was but he was gorgeous. I think he may have been a brown leghorn but I don't know. I paid a whole 5 dollars for him. While I was there I happened to notice a sickly little chicken. It had a few feathers, lots of sores and a crow that sounded like a broken squeak toy. I saw how much work he would be and decided I just couldn't handle it. I took the new roo home and thought that my flock of 12 would be perfect.

Well, that didn't get to happen. I sat there thinking about how even though that poor baby was in such bad shape he was trying to take on all the roosters there with his poor little crow. That bird had heart. So I headed back up there and bought him for 2 dollars and some antibiotics and a few other items to take care of him. After a while of caring for him I found out that he was a banty white cochin. Which was perfect for my two little banty girls. But only two hens weren't enough for a roo, so off to the feedstore to get two more banties.

And that is how 2=15

 

[shelbear81]

We need a guide to more acronyms that that! How about all the initials for all the chicken breeds? Before I became indoctrinated, BO meant something very different than "buff orpington!" And when the knowledgeable people let out all the stops, it's absolutely mind-boggling. Anybody want to start up a list for newbies before somebody sees BA and thinks we're making an exhibitionist statement!

--Nikki

OMG! I feel your pain... I don't know what the heck ppl are talking about when they get all breedy IM speaky...

 

[shelbear81]

Love your chicken math story!! It is the sweetest I think I have heard yet... How did the little sick roo do?

My chicken math...

When I first started I wanted one chicken. We went to the feed store to get the one chicken. DH and I were told to come back in the spring. Spring rolled around and we had talked ourselves into two chickens. We went knowing that each of us were going to get a chicken. We picked out one each. I picked out a buff orpington and he picked out a rhode island red. We brought the little peeps home and found out my nephew wanted one, as did the room mate and my sister. So we went back and got 2 white leghorns, 2 more rhode island reds, and 3 black australorps. At this point we are up to 9. We get them to almost a month old and ran out of that first bag of food.

Back at the feedstore they had a batch of banties come in. My DH fell in love with a partridge cochin banty. I agreed to let him have it since it was just the most adorable little fuzzball. At about that time I noticed something was messing with my foot (I wear sandals year round) and down there was what looked like a little chickadee chick. It was a banty chick of some sort. That is how I got chickadee.

Another month passes and we notice that the neighbors behind us have a rooster. (We lived in a place where there were lots of chickens in town, so we didn't know where the roosters lived, just heard them all the time) The rooster was doing his best to get my girls to wander over to him. And I couldn't have that. So I headed back to the feed store to see if she had any roosters. And boy did she, there was an adorable gigantic roo there that I will never know for sure what breed he was but he was gorgeous. I think he may have been a brown leghorn but I don't know. I paid a whole 5 dollars for him. While I was there I happened to notice a sickly little chicken. It had a few feathers, lots of sores and a crow that sounded like a broken squeak toy. I saw how much work he would be and decided I just couldn't handle it. I took the new roo home and thought that my flock of 12 would be perfect.

Well, that didn't get to happen. I sat there thinking about how even though that poor baby was in such bad shape he was trying to take on all the roosters there with his poor little crow. That bird had heart. So I headed back up there and bought him for 2 dollars and some antibiotics and a few other items to take care of him. After a while of caring for him I found out that he was a banty white cochin. Which was perfect for my two little banty girls. But only two hens weren't enough for a roo, so off to the feedstore to get two more banties.

And that is how 2=15

 

[jrsckn]

Love your chicken math story!! It is the sweetest I think I have heard yet... How did the little sick roo do?

I know, its like a good book you put down before bed and its gone when you get up, I need to know the end lol.

Did he live happily ever after ith his 4 hens?

 

[StelleKitten]

The last I saw of him he was doing great. That was when my husband and I both lost our jobs so we lost everything. Our homes, our chickens, all of our furniture. I rehomed him and the people I gave him to seemed to adore him more than all the others. I really really hope that he is doing well. I felt so bad making him get used to new people again.

Oh, btw, I entered him into one of the contests on this page. He won third place. His pic was a good one of him.

 

[jrsckn]

The last I saw of him he was doing great. That was when my husband and I both lost our jobs so we lost everything. Our homes, our chickens, all of our furniture. I rehomed him and the people I gave him to seemed to adore him more than all the others. I really really hope that he is doing well. I felt so bad making him get used to new people again.

Oh, btw, I entered him into one of the contests on this page. He won third place. His pic was a good one of him.

I'm soo sorry to hear that

We were in the same situation 3 years ago; DH lost his job 2 weeks before Christmas and I lost mine 2 weeks after Christmas. We had to put 3 of our dogs to sleep because we couldn't take them all with us when we moved and we couldn't rehome them.

 

[shelbear81]

The last I saw of him he was doing great. That was when my husband and I both lost our jobs so we lost everything. Our homes, our chickens, all of our furniture. I rehomed him and the people I gave him to seemed to adore him more than all the others. I really really hope that he is doing well. I felt so bad making him get used to new people again.

Oh, btw, I entered him into one of the contests on this page. He won third place. His pic was a good one of him.

I'm so sorry... My DH and I have had a string of bad circumstances too, and had to claim bankruptcy we are finally on the road to financial recovery and I will be keeping you and your family in my thoughts.

 

[StelleKitten]

Thank you guys. I really appreciate that.Things are slowly looking better. We will be moving by the end of this month to a place that is sure to be our happy place.

Stelle