Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[TeaChick]

Nope, Teachick, you have the wrong attitude.

1. NEVER add up the number of chicks. You need to be able to TRUTHFULLY say, "I have no idea how many chickens I have, but it can't be very many"

2. If the spouse ever actually SEES the chicks, you need to have ways to get around that too.... Your choices are:
- split them up into separate groups, so you never see them all together
- explain how any minute now, there will be fewer than you can currently see (an eagle will kill some, I am planning on selling a few, we will eat all of the males, and most of those are males, and aren't they tasty when they are bar-b-qued??? )
- evasive answers, "but I have ONLY five leghorns, and those others....well you know how the boys are, they talked me into it" also, I am already planning for " I know that that LOOKS like a lot of eggs, but often the hatch rate from shipped eggs is only 1%!!!! "

I see. Well, I try to keep up with how many chickens I have, but I hatch/buy/lose them too quickly to really keep up. I think we've been holding steady at 24 for a while, but I've got two eggs in the bator (not holding my breath for them), and I'm waiting for my Cochin to go broody and hoping that my one sex-link does too. I'm letting them both collect a clutch, so hopefully I'll be able to TRUTHFULLY say "I have no idea how many chickens I have, but it can't be very many."
This is how I "count" my chickens at night to make sure that they're all in their respective sleeping places: and I quote "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine white big chicks, one, two brown big chicks, here are your two DS, one, two, three Leghorns (white), one, two, three Comets (brown), a Snoodle, Eddie, and Marty, and one, two, three, four cute little bitty white (I wanted partridge or barred) Cochin chicks. Yup, got everybody." Then DH asks, when I get in the house, "Chickens all locked up?" and I say, "Yup", so I don't ever really count all my chickens, I just make sure everybody's there.
Yes, we're going to eat the males, but my big chicks are mostly Leghorn, so I'm going to have to bar-b-que two or three of them to feed my crew.

 

[TeaChick]

And what in the world do you do with your bathtub?

My parents use their bathtub as paper storage, I use my bathtub for chick storage.... Perfectly normal!



Edited to add: I think my in-laws store clothes in their bathtub.

There's insulation that we were going to wrap the ducts for the AC in last summer, but never got a chance to...in my bathtub. So I guess you'd say unused home improvement supplies?

 

[TeaChick]

My Grand daughter with her Baby Chick

She is really gentle with them but doesn't like that they poop all the time

I agree with both of you!!!

 

[cindynkidsd]

And what in the world do you do with your bathtub?

My parents use their bathtub as paper storage, I use my bathtub for chick storage.... Perfectly normal!



Edited to add: I think my in-laws store clothes in their bathtub.

I have an incubator in the downstairs shower. Lol

 

[TeaChick]

Oh, my!!! Remind me not to visit at your house.



Now, I'm not having almost any success with hatching. I had more development in the cardboard box with a heat lamp in it than I'm having with the cooler-bator. I thought the cooler-bator would be better. But I lost both dozens of eggs that I put in it. It doesn't keep temp nearly as well as my cardboard boxes (3 of them nested inside each other and the lamp separated from the eggs by a single layer of cardboard). My heat lamp is occupied with my Cochin chicks right now, but I might try to figure out a way to use the cooler-bator for warming the chicks and put my lamp back in the boxes to incubate eggs. I can't help but think that I wouldn't have lost those seven chicks right at the end like that if I had kept them going in the box. IDK.

 

[Bunnylady]

I guess I'm kinda strange, or something, but I thought bathtubs were for, um, you know, baths?

Silly me.

 

[TeaChick]

Yup, you're the strange one!!!

 

[Alaskan]

I guess I'm kinda strange, or something, but I thought bathtubs were for, um, you know, baths?  Silly me.

Remember, bathing is very dangerous. Not only do most accidents happen in the bathroom, but washing all of that dirt off will make you cold.

It is MUCH better for you to use the bathtub only for chicks.

 

[Bunnylady]

So only chicks take baths? Ohkayyyyyyy.

I don't know whether or not washing the dirt off will make you cold, but I think chickwhispers and I came to the conclusion that washing the mud off can make you look old.

 

[TeaChick]

Remember, bathing is very dangerous. Not only do most accidents happen in the bathroom, but washing all of that dirt off will make you cold.

It is MUCH better for you to use the bathtub only for chicks.

So only chicks take baths? Ohkayyyyyyy.

I don't know whether or not washing the dirt off will make you cold, but I think chickwhispers and I came to the conclusion that washing the mud off can make you look old.

I try to avoid that! (well, those, both washing the dirt off, getting cold, and looking old)