Extreme Chicken Math

[wildcat chix]

So, we've had Bonnie and Clyde about a year now. We decided to get a few day old chicks (we got 10 and gave away 6 - out of the original 10 we lost 3). Then Gina went to TSC and came home wth 12, 4 silkies and a couple other banties and 6 White Leghorn pullets.

Eventually all the banties that survived went to her mom's house, and everything was fine until yesteday.

We went to the flea market and came home with these....

got a pair of BLRWs...

4 B.O,s (guy kept calling them Buff Orphans, so we're calling one Annie)...

This cute little guy, Dexter...

And our newest addition, Cammy (because she rode home in the Camry)...

I just keep throwing in pics of Shades in the hope that someone will tell me he is a pullet LOL...

And, the world's best flock guardian, Mandy...

Total is now 17 chickens, one parakeet, one goat, one basset hound, and it all started with just 2!!

 

[gryeyes]

Oh, not to denigrate your experience, but that's not "extreme" for BYCers.

Love Mandy - how adorable! I love the short-legged hounds - always had beagles or dachshunds, "fostered" a Basset once and wish I could have kept her. Maybe when I move to the foothills in my retirement years.....

My Chicken Math started with a plan for 4 "maybe 6" but I bought 8 chicks. Now look where I am (see my signature).

 

[greenSearcher]

Oh, only ONE kid? I understand goats are like chickens and want/need more companions. I don't know, as I have not gotten any, I don't feel I can handle a grown goat-I have a hard enough time chasing chickens.

Chicken math works for me at the nursery- came home with 7 Tomato plants, 2 egg plants and Raspberry Sorrel (tastes lemony like the normal stuff) that looks great in my big chick planter as the tail. Spent the money from the eggs sold earlier at the flea market.

 

[crossgirl]

Oh, yes! You need more goats!! How did you hold out for a year before getting more chicks!?!?!

 

[wildcat chix]

I keep saying we need more goats. I want to get the kind that faint...maybe a fainting billy to mate with my pygmy nanny?

We waited a year on new chicks because we needed more room. New place with lots of land and a very understanding landlord now.