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[wingstone]

Just stopping in to say " hello "
Time is something that I do not have much of lately, I keep up with reading the post, but usually to tired at night to even think about commenting....I get cranky when tired..
The yard is full of dandelions, give me some day idea's besides just feeding to the bunnies... nothing to involved.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Well, I guess I'm putting the chicken tractor in the wrong place! I will get right on it, cause it's covering a hill.

I said it may be Henbit, but I am not sure, I will have to check my reference book and make sure.

Just a word of warning. I wanted 8.
Now have 35ish. Plus 16 8 week old. Plus four in brooder. Plus eggs in hatcher. And incubator. And quail. And rabbits.

Bought most of that doesn't count in chicken math.

So I have 8.

Gold star for chicken math!

Hahah chicken math catches up with you. I just wanted 6 hens. Now I have 15 chickens, 14 hens and 1 rooster, in one pen.  2 silkies in another pen, and the silkie hen is sitting on 6 eggs. I have 2 free ranging roosters, and 2 free ranging guineas. In my duck run I have 7 ducks with a duck sitting on over 20 eggs. Inside I have 6 silkie chicks, 25 meatie chickens, and 6 turkeys. In the incubator I have 48 eggs (24 chickens and 24 ducks)

My advice would be to build a bigger coop than you think you need. You will find out that you will want different breeds of chickens. I love having different colors in the fridge. So many colors to choose from, white, brown, green, blue, olive green, pink. Good luck on your chicken adventure. :cd

You get a gold star for your chicken math too!

You can't have one, because it will get lonely. You can't have two because one might die. You can't have three because it's an odd number.
You can't have four because chicks are prone to birth defects, so you need to get extras to take their place.
You can't have ...

Best evidence I have heard yet!

And this is precisely how I ended up with 30 chickens, 8 turkeys, 4 geese, 2 peafowl, 11 quail, 11 mear roos, 14 bbw turkeys, 20+ chicks in the brooder, an incubator that holds about 400 eggs, another cabinet bator coming from my aunt that holds around 300 eggs, 3 styro bators, and most of that first bator either full or getting there. It all started with 4 chicks & 2 ducklings that my then 4 yr old talked me into buying when we went into TSC for kitty litter during Chick Days 4 years ago.

You have all this knowledge after only 4 years!?

And you get a gold star for chicken math too. Haha!

(I'm still earning mine...)

 

[BullChick]

I went from "chickens are gross!" To six to eight to 14 to 48 in the first year.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

7 of my dozen are still going. I always struggle with turkey. A week and a half to go.

This is my first turkey hatch and I'm getting nervous lol. First set goes on lockdown on Sunday. All 6 of that set have developed, but it's the hatch I'm nervous about lol.
My second set was shipped to me and only 2 of 9 developed.
Third set, shipped to me (courtesy of Silkiesensation) all but 1 are looking good. So yeah, I'm excited but nervous lol

My chicken math started last spring when we first started. We wanted 8 so we bought 14 leaving room got extra roosters. Dogs got them and killed them all so when we started again, we got 17. Only ended up with 3 roosters. Girls went broody in fall so we hatched 9 more and kept them all (till spring). With all the hatching this spring, and all the extra cockerels that nobody wants we now have 54 lol. 10 are babies that we don't know the sex so they don't count, 19 are cockerels that will either sell or be eaten so they don't count, 2 are bantams do they only count as 1,4 girls are for sale so by my calculations, I only have 20 chickens HAHA!

Soon to come, turkey math!

 

[barbiegirl]

Hahaha Bantams don't count. lol I tried telling that to my hubby then he said well the Muscovy ducks count as 2 lol

 

[Blarneyeggs]

To clarify my earlier questions on building some type of chicken tractor:  I thought that I wouldn't need to include a feeder on the tractor because I would be feeding inside the coop.  Is this wrong?  (I thought that some of you may have thought that I didn't intend to give feed at all.)

That's what I thought...



I don't keep my feeders in the coop, only because I find they don't eat enough when I have, but, to each, his own.


Best view in the world:

 

[chickbrad24]

Hello I am stopping by to say hello. I am from North East PA by Hazleton.

 

[hendricks115]

Hello I am stopping by to say hello. I am from North East PA by Hazleton.

Howdy neighbor, we're from Ringtown!

 

[chickbrad24]

Howdy neighbor, we're from Ringtown!

Hello wow that's not to far from Hazleton. I thought I was the only one in my area on backyard chickens.

 

[chiques chicks]

To clarify my earlier questions on building some type of chicken tractor:  I thought that I wouldn't need to include a feeder on the tractor because I would be feeding inside the coop.  Is this wrong?  (I thought that some of you may have thought that I didn't intend to give feed at all.)

You can probably get by without the feeder in the tractor s long as they have plenty of access to feed. Remember, nighttime doesn't count, they're asleep. Seriously. I have birds that like to get out of the run and forage all day, but when I bring feed and open the gate, they run right in for food.

I would recommend some sort of small feeder to give them choices. A rubber bowl works fine, they sell them at TSC.. A number of us use them exclusively. Both feed and water. Come winter you'll appreciate them. And they last year's.