Yeah - chicken math here-
8+7+1+1-1+20...and my DD is stalking the farm store for a silkie if they get any in...
my husband planned to build a second mini-coop for me for my birthday. One to house a breeder group or use as a bachelor pad when the roosters need separation, and to use as a grow out coop. Oh wait - we hatched more chicks than we have in the big coop! It needs to house them until they're 12-14 weeks old so my big chickens don't try to kill them - last time they seriously would attack the younger ones even though they were almost the same size, if they got too close. The young ones lived in a penned area under the nest boxes inside the coop and had a divider in the outside run. Twenty 12wk old chickens will not fit in that area this time. So... we need to build a not-so-mini second coop within about 4 weeks AND do a remodel of the big coop in the next 10 wks. I am so lucky to have a handyman husband to help with my projects!
Last incubation we set a dozen, 1 hatched. This time we set 25, should've hatch 2 or 3 right? LOL. 20.