Official Definition(s) of Chicken Math

[Double-0 Chicken]

This is way easier than my 10 year olds math at school. I can do this math

 

[mschazz]

chick days at co-op was today,,,currently have 7 layers out of 15 chicks from last year,,,would like to have 7 more,,,deducting losing half the flock to various reasons, anticipating a roo or two,,then "trying out a new breed",,came out with 20 chicks. got to the car and husband says, "you didn't get any of those buff ones?" went back in and got 5 more!! crazy!! in two weeks the silver laced wyandottes arrive!!!

gotta love this math

 

[Cass]

Let me see if I have this math formula correct.
I have an 8x8 coop and no chickens. The breeder had an awful year with hatches so she won't have the chickens I ordered for a couple of months.
So I bought 4 banties from someone else. But they only count as 1/2 each, right? So I have 2 chickens.
A friend felt sorry for me, so she is hatching me 6 chicks. But they don't count, they are only chicks. So I have 2 chickens.
The breeder IS going to hatch me chicks of the breed I want, but my money is going to go further so instead of the 5 birds I originally ordered I will be getting 6 chicks from her, but they don't count. So still 2 chickens.
But wait, she DOES have some BO that are 9 weeks old. I asked for 2 of those. But they aren't laying yet, so don't count.

So when all is said and done and everyone is in the coop, I have 2 chickens, Right?

 

[wsdareme]

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Wow, Cass, you catch on to this Chicken Math thing pretty fast!!

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

My version of chicken math isn't about who counts. It's more the way that I keep adding to my flock. My "founding flock" of 6 one year old hens were having pecking order issues. Solution in my mind = raise a rooster. BUT I couldn't have just one lonely roo so I got him two "girls" one of the girls is looking like a boy. Then within the same month of getting the three new babies I find out that my best friend needs to rehome a 9 week old hen. DB says he wants to keep 10 birds in our coop even though it could fit 14. Now we've reached the 10 bird limit -Solution= plans for converting shed into coop in the future = CHICKEN MATH. Two coops one for standards and one for bantams

 

[Time-Out]

Math-ing up my chickens, I have none, which makes me wonder why I bothered buying a hen house!

I'll just say it's for the wild pheasants. We don't want them getting caught out in a storm now, do we?

 

[NYRIR]

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That sounds right SilverPhoenix! My calculations exactly

 

[KDailey]

All my chickens are still chicks or haven't actually arrived in the mail yet so I don't have any. BUT I did apply chicken math to how many chicks to order and I didn't even know it!

1) So I got 6 1-day old chicks from the neighbor. Only one was a silkie but it died. 6-1=5
2) I HAD to have a silkie which led me to looking around the internet for somewhere to order from. I only planned on ordering a few but after looking around I realized that they don't sell them just 1 or 2 at a time. At Ideal Poultry you have to have a minimum of $25 which equaled approximately 10 chicks and I was going to go with an assortment of feather footed bantums so I could have a variety so should be 5+10=15
3) Then I thought, "Yes but there's no guarantee that there will be silkies in the assortment." So on top of the assortment I added 3 silkies for good measure. 15+3=18
4) Then I thought, "But I really should have some standard chickens for egg production and not just veiwing pleasure." so that leads to a complete redo of the order 18-13=5
5) So after careful consideration I decided that Standard Brahmas were the ones I wanted. I was going to get 4 pullets and 1 cockerall 5+5=10
6) The assorted feather footed bantums could include brahmas and I don't want to be overrun with one breed so I decide to not go with that assortment. Now my assorted silkies, it's a st run so I've got to order enough that I have a good chance of at least getting some pullets and not all cockeralls 10+5=15
7) So now I'm at my intended order quantity but....I really did like those d'Uccles that were included in the feather footed bantum assortment.... 15+5=20
8) Ok I should have my order straight now.....WAIT! What was that one chicken called that the neighbor had? It was so cute! 20+5 bantum cochins=25

So my original 6 birds quickly became 25 in less than a week. And the best part is that my boyfriend understood my reasoning! lol

Then when it came to designing the coop and run the chicken math came out again. lol.
1) A 5x10ft coop and 10x10ft run for the chickens
2) But what if some of them don't get along?? Make that 2 coops and 2 runs of equal size
3) Hmm..... once the hens are old enough they'll start laying eggs and there's a good chance some of those will be fertilized since I'll have roos which means when the eggs start hatching I'll have more chickens than two coops and runs can hold, plus I might have to seperate the babies so we better make that 3 coops and 3 runs
4) Well hold on.... some of those chicks are bound to be roos that I don't want and I'll need to seperate them somewhere so I better make another coop and run to seperate the for sell/for eating roosters. That brings us to 4 coops and 4 runs.

 

[fishnet1971]

chicken math:

"but honey, no matter how many I get only half will survive, so I need to buy 12 just to get 6" = 6 chickens.
One of my 'pullets' end up a roo. so now i have 5.
6 months later I get a call from the SCPA up in Buffalo, they have two abandoned hens from the city. Those two are 'city chicks' so they dont count.
another 6 months later, all 10 of my purchased hens survived. - one roo = actual on hand at the time of 9 chickens. crap, the numbers are to high!!!!!
so of a total of 12 living bodies in my coop: minus 1 roo, minus 2 non layers, minus 2 dead, minus 7 yard birds when I am home, 7 in when I am not = 3.5 chickens!!!
COOL! I am under in #s! = go get 4 new babies from the hatchery!!! chicks dont count. still at 3.5 chickens.
babies are growwwiiiing up. they wont leave the pen!!! arrrrggggg! but not laying yet, so they still dont count. still at 3.5 chickens

want more!!!! DH wont build me another coop...... doesnt want me to have any more.. says I have enough!!!!!!

The REAL chicken math????????

3.5 chickens MINUS one husband?????? equals MORE CHICKENS!!!!!!!!!

 

[ChickInDelight]

Wow. So glad I found this thread. I thought the inverse was true.

I figured 1 + 1 = 10000.

1 hen + 1 rooster x [(5 more per day) x (# of days)] =

I now realize, I need some chickens. I thought I had 4 chickens, but my lease does not allow livestock. They are therefore backyard pets reducing my number of chickens to zero.

I fancy those Polish, Cuckoos, and other hair-styled birds. They don't really look like chickens, so I reckon they don't count....