Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[TeaChick]

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.

Not sure how some one can make it with out coffee... ( we might not understand... We all friendly here, some of us might be a little crazy)

When I got chickens I asked my DW if I could have 2... She said ok... I came home with 4... I said they wouldn't cost much... I got a coop. Friend helped me build run. She decided by the time we got the first egg I had spent $700. So she says that's a $700 egg... I laughed, and held up the second one and said... Now we are making a profit!

Well this weekend we went to help our friend with her new coop. And DW said I could have 2 more chicks.... I never thought I'd hear those words.

I know how you feel. I kept trying to encourage my DH to buy chickens and eventually gave up. About six months later (that's the usual time frame between me giving up on convincing him of something and him having the brilliant idea that we should do it), he walked out of TSC with a bunch of chicken paraphernalia and called me to the back of the van to see the chicks. So, they rode home on my lap. Then last summer, he ordered chickens and told me afterward, and I was in such shock that he thought I wasn't happy about it. I told him I was just speechless. I never thought he'd do anything like that.

Woo Hoo! Finally growing. Now to decide what to get?

What do you have?

 

[TeaChick]

This being a huge decision! Do you want certain qualities Lots of Eggs, great personality, ohh a good broody so you can hatch and say

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Special color eggs? wow lots to think of!

I got leg horns last year for my grand daughter .... NOT A FAN! they lay lots of nice white eggs but have the personality of a feral cat! I love my Brahma and the Silkie I had was awesome especially for a roo. They have nice personalities and the Brahma lays daily the Silkie is not a good layer oh wait that is cuz mine was a roo!
Good luck with your flock and research the different breeds it is like visiting other countries lots to learn before you go. If you will be limited on the ones you can have make sure you are getting the ones you want! You will be much happier with your flock that way!

I like the broody shrug, personally!!!
I want special color eggs! I used to have a couple of OEs, but I lost them. I'm hoping for blue eggs and green eggs. DH said we might order chicks in the Fall.
@Chicken Ladies , this is very good advice!!!

Funny for the day!

I will do my research, I have 2 barred Rock and 2 Black Sex Links now. I love all 4. I never realized they could have such personalities, like one of the BSL called Fiesty gets to squawking at me if I sleep in, she wants her Greens!!!!!

Well, that answers my question.
There's a magazine available at some hardware stores and feed stores. "Chickens" magazine puts out a specific issue called "Chicken Breeds". It's a good place to start research on different breeds and learning about chickens and there are some coop designs and DIY projects in there. I refer to mine a lot when deciding what breed(s) I want or to check when someone's likely to start laying, etc. Very informative (so much so that my research fiend of a DD stole it and it's hidden in her bookcase somewhere right now).
Anyway, happy researching!
If you like personality, you'd like Cochins and Silkies. But those go broody, so if that's a con for you, then Sex-Links (as you've discovered), it has been my experience, have a lot of personality (although not always friendly, but they can be very friendly if they're socialized).
If you post about what you want in your future chickens, then everyone on here will probably have a story about this chicken or that chicken that was a certain breed (or mix) and did whatever-it-is to the extreme. =)

Haha me my hubby will put pandora on and dance with kiddos. They get a kick out of it haha

He doesn't dance anymore, and I never was good at it. (Although, this Sunday while I was frying Bacon and Egg Donuts w/ DD, I was bopping to the songs DH was putting on. But don't tell anyone. lol)
Anyway, we have a lot of fun with it too.
I miss my dad putting on "Purple People Eater" for me on my b-day. I really wish I could get ahold of that LP.

 

[perchie.girl]

He doesn't dance anymore, and I never was good at it. (Although, this Sunday while I was frying Bacon and Egg Donuts w/ DD, I was bopping to the songs DH was putting on. But don't tell anyone. lol)
Anyway, we have a lot of fun with it too.
I miss my dad putting on "Purple People Eater" for me on my b-day. I really wish I could get ahold of that LP.

Here you go

deb

 

[tjo804]

Chicken Math is the only completely scientifically acceptable way of counting
chickens. Let me explain...

Everyone has heard the "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" expression?
It means that eggs are only eggs, and therefore never to be counted as real chickens.

So hatching eggs do not count.


Roosters never count because they are not really chickens. They are roosters. Simply
a part of the proper equipment one must have to hatch the eggs that don't count either.

A hen not yet old enough to lay an egg isn't worth being counted either. While we may
have many of these, they are basically worthless. It costs the farmer out of pocket to
raise these things. Farmers may never admit to owning money losing animals.

Once your hens become "laying hens", they now count as real bon-afied chickens. They
have a purpose.

They now provide the happy farmer with eggs to sell to the city-folk.

However...if the hen goes brody, or the farmer decides to incubate the eggs of a certain
hen, the said hen is now considered as un-productive in the egg-selling business and no
longer counts.

Once the hen is beyond her best egging days, she again no longer counts. But she has
earned her way, and is now on the farmers retirement plan.

Given all this information, one should then take the total number of eggs-collected-for-sale
during seven days, divide that number by the seven and...there you have the exact number
of chickens in the flock.

Example: If the Farmboy has 1200 eggs this month (March, 31 days) ...1200 divided by 31
equal 38.7 hens. It is not possible to have half a hen, so we round down...38 hens. Farmers
also do not count each chicken as "one"...takes to long. So we round the number again.
38 is just about 36, or three dozen hens give or take.

As someone has already pointed out, there are 16 eggs in a farmer's dozen. Not 12. So help me count the Farm Boys chickens....16, 32, 48...48 is to many. So we round off again to the nearest
whole dozen...or 32.

That's two dozen chickens the Farm Boy now has.

And everybody knows that two dozen is really the same as 24.

So...Farm Boy really only has 24 chickens.

....And THAT'S chicken math...

 

[Chicken Ladies]

[COLOR=FF0000]Chicken Math[/COLOR] [COLOR=000000]is the only completely scientifically acceptable way of counting

chickens. Let me explain...


Everyone has heard the "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" expression?

It means that eggs are only eggs, and therefore never to be counted as real chickens.


So hatching eggs do not count.



Roosters never count because they are not really chickens. They are roosters. Simply

a part of the proper equipment one must have to hatch the eggs that don't count either.


A hen not yet old enough to lay an egg isn't worth being counted either. While we may

have many of these, they are basically worthless. It costs the farmer out of pocket to

raise these things. Farmers may never admit to owning money losing animals.


Once your hens become "laying hens", they now count as real bon-afied chickens. They

have a purpose.


They now provide the happy farmer with eggs to sell to the city-folk.


However...if the hen goes brody, or the farmer decides to incubate the eggs of a certain

hen, the said hen is now considered as un-productive in the egg-selling business and no

longer counts.


Once the hen is beyond her best egging days, she again no longer counts. But she has

earned her way, and is now on the farmers retirement plan.


Given all this information, one should then take the total number of eggs-collected-for-sale

during seven days, divide that number by the seven and...there you have the exact number

of chickens in the flock.


Example: If the Farmboy has 1200 eggs this month (March, 31 days) ...1200 divided by 31

equal 38.7 hens. It is not possible to have half a hen, so we round down...38 hens. Farmers

also do not count each chicken as "one"...takes to long. So we round the number again.

38 is just about 36, or three dozen hens give or take.


As someone has already pointed out, there are 16 eggs in a farmer's dozen. Not 12. So help me count the Farm Boys chickens....16, 32, 48...48 is to many. So we round off again to the nearest

whole dozen...or 32.


That's two dozen chickens the Farm Boy now has.


And everybody knows that two dozen is really the same as 24.


So...Farm Boy really only has 24 chickens.


....And THAT'S chicken math...[/COLOR]

Thank You... Very helpful!

 

[tjo804]

 

[Woodsdweller]

Chicken Math is the only completely scientifically acceptable way of counting
chickens. Let me explain...

Everyone has heard the "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" expression?
It means that eggs are only eggs, and therefore never to be counted as real chickens.

So hatching eggs do not count.


Roosters never count because they are not really chickens. They are roosters. Simply
a part of the proper equipment one must have to hatch the eggs that don't count either.

A hen not yet old enough to lay an egg isn't worth being counted either. While we may
have many of these, they are basically worthless. It costs the farmer out of pocket to
raise these things. Farmers may never admit to owning money losing animals.

Once your hens become "laying hens", they now count as real bon-afied chickens. They
have a purpose.

They now provide the happy farmer with eggs to sell to the city-folk.

However...if the hen goes brody, or the farmer decides to incubate the eggs of a certain
hen, the said hen is now considered as un-productive in the egg-selling business and no
longer counts.

Once the hen is beyond her best egging days, she again no longer counts. But she has
earned her way, and is now on the farmers retirement plan.

Given all this information, one should then take the total number of eggs-collected-for-sale
during seven days, divide that number by the seven and...there you have the exact number
of chickens in the flock.

Example: If the Farmboy has 1200 eggs this month (March, 31 days) ...1200 divided by 31
equal 38.7 hens. It is not possible to have half a hen, so we round down...38 hens. Farmers
also do not count each chicken as "one"...takes to long. So we round the number again.
38 is just about 36, or three dozen hens give or take.

As someone has already pointed out, there are 16 eggs in a farmer's dozen. Not 12. So help me count the Farm Boys chickens....16, 32, 48...48 is to many. So we round off again to the nearest
whole dozen...or 32.

That's two dozen chickens the Farm Boy now has.

And everybody knows that two dozen is really the same as 24.

So...Farm Boy really only has 24 chickens.

....And THAT'S chicken math...

I didn't catch all that.. could ya splain it again fer us old geezers with heering aids n spectaculars?

 

[Bunnylady]

Chicken Math is the only completely scientifically acceptable way of counting
chickens. Let me explain...

Everyone has heard the "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" expression?
It means that eggs are only eggs, and therefore never to be counted as real chickens.

So hatching eggs do not count.


Roosters never count because they are not really chickens. They are roosters. Simply
a part of the proper equipment one must have to hatch the eggs that don't count either.

A hen not yet old enough to lay an egg isn't worth being counted either. While we may
have many of these, they are basically worthless. It costs the farmer out of pocket to
raise these things. Farmers may never admit to owning money losing animals.

Once your hens become "laying hens", they now count as real bon-afied chickens. They
have a purpose.

They now provide the happy farmer with eggs to sell to the city-folk.

However...if the hen goes brody, or the farmer decides to incubate the eggs of a certain
hen, the said hen is now considered as un-productive in the egg-selling business and no
longer counts.

Once the hen is beyond her best egging days, she again no longer counts. But she has
earned her way, and is now on the farmers retirement plan.

Given all this information, one should then take the total number of eggs-collected-for-sale
during seven days, divide that number by the seven and...there you have the exact number
of chickens in the flock.

Example: If the Farmboy has 1200 eggs this month (March, 31 days) ...1200 divided by 31
equal 38.7 hens. It is not possible to have half a hen, so we round down...38 hens. Farmers
also do not count each chicken as "one"...takes to long. So we round the number again.
38 is just about 36, or three dozen hens give or take.

As someone has already pointed out, there are 16 eggs in a farmer's dozen. Not 12. So help me count the Farm Boys chickens....16, 32, 48...48 is to many. So we round off again to the nearest
whole dozen...or 32.

That's two dozen chickens the Farm Boy now has.

And everybody knows that two dozen is really the same as 24.

So...Farm Boy really only has 24 chickens.

....And THAT'S chicken math...

And THAT is wisdom from the one-and-only Spookwriter!

Gads I miss him!

 

[TurnerEGGZ]

Now that is funny!!! Gotta love chicken math. With that example I pretty much just spent $$$ on one big, fancy Outhouse being that all mine are still young haha

 

[tjo804]

Yes Yes Yes Spookwriter!
that is what it says on the saved doc It is the absolute best explanation I have heard yet on Chicken Math I have posted it alot but not recently.