Chicken math is getting more than you bargained for.
Three hens could supply enough eggs for a big family and that's if you didn't buy a laying breed - and you did. Have fun with the egg business...because you might be way over your head already in eggs.
Think like so (this is real math...I'll show you an example of chicken math after this), say each one of your six hens lays 200 eggs a year, which is reasonable.
200 (and this isn't a layer breed like yours, yours will lay like 280-300+ a year)
X 6
1200 eggs every year,
the average person only eats say three eggs a week, and there are 56 weeks in a year.
56
x 3
168
so you take 1200 divided by 158 to find out how many people your hens are going to feed:
1200
/ 158
7.59 or about 7 and a half people will be fed from very average hens.
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okay that was real math - this is chicken math: (failing)
If I buy a rooster he will fertilize the eggs and I'll have more hens if I hatch those eggs, but I also get more hens with that rooster so I'll have even more eggs! Well half of those eggs I hatch are going to be males, and I don't take that into thought but I end up not selling the chickens when I should and then I end up with 5+ roosters and like 11 or 12 hens and nobody takes the roosters.
works a lot like that...good luck though!
