The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ShelbyCoral]

Okie

AH! CUTE!!!! Oh my gosh. So adorable.

 

[sunflowerparrot]

Just about five years ago, I started with 8 chicks - one of which was an accidental rooster - and now when someone asks me, I say I have "oh, around 50."

People who know me just laugh.

lol... On impulse, I purchased 5 cute chicks one day at Atwoods. I came home in the city and put them in my bathtub! I knew I was going to be moving in a few months, but didn't expect them to grow that fast... sheesh - they were jumping out of the bath tub, jumping up on the toilet and sink... escaping, etc! That was almost 3 years ago... now I too have about 50+ chickens It's an illness!!

 

[luvmypets]

Chickenitiss is very contagious and deadly!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: I had to cover one run due to hawks attacking my juveniles. I always have babies in this coop, so I needed to do something.

Okie

Adorable!

I know I sure don't count either.... my chicken math sure got to my dh! He talked me into getting 20 hens march last year. Then he built this grand coop for them.... so much empty space! then one of our pullets turned out to be a roo! We decided to keep him, for now, and see.... he was fine, so we kept him. Then we decided that we'd get a few more this year.... but no one was selling yet... so I just ever so casually suggested that instead of buying 20 clicks at $3+ a piece we could spend $80 and get an incubator and turner and hatch them ourselves... for free.... so we did. And then did it again when someone wanted to buy ours.... then my sons kindergarten class hatched Cornish cross so we took those.... so... if my math is right... . ... then I have 49 in the coop, 7 four week olds, 5 one week olds, 30 hatching as we speak "type" and 8 more trying to hatch. Although those 38 are sold. . Gotta love chicken math!

When you quit counting your chicks and meaties, then you have aced chicken math.

Now I have broodies doing the hatching for me. First one hatches her eggs on Wed.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

I start with 8 which is a good number for a new chicken person. I got 8 Hens (unsexed). I got lucky!

 

[LBKS]

When you quit counting your chicks and meaties, then you have aced chicken math.

I think I have this down, always had a knack for math I guess!

I hedge around saying an exact number, then I end up confessing to my main flock and a "oh, and then the babies". No one needs to know there are currently more babies than adults. And those extra roosters don't count because I'm going to cull them very soon. And the spare breeding roosters don't count because they are spares, that's like saying your car has 5 tires when you have a spare on the back, right?

And bantams only count as half a chicken, right?

...You should have seen the look I got the last time I confessed to how many eggs I had in incubators. I didn't even tell her how many were under the broodies...those don't count either, right?

Chicken Math would have been my favorite subject in school

 

[troyer]

I call these my "Zebra" chicks. They are 7/8th Cubalaya and 1/8th Cornish. Does anyone know what causes this coloring? The mother is blue and the father is a recessive white, spangled rooster.



These are the parents.

 

[winteree]

I call these my "Zebra" chicks. They are 7/8th Cubalaya and 1/8th Cornish. Does anyone know what causes this coloring? The mother is blue and the father is a recessive white, spangled rooster.



These are the parents.

wow that coloring is striking they are going to be some pretty birds when they get older. But i don't know what could have caused the striping on them by gentics some of the chicks should have been the color of one parent or the other or a mix of both colors\patterens not two new colors very werid are you sure these two are the one's that did the dance?

 

[winteree]

I know I sure don't count either.... my chicken math sure got to my dh! He talked me into getting 20 hens march last year. Then he built this grand coop for them.... so much empty space! then one of our pullets turned out to be a roo! We decided to keep him, for now, and see.... he was fine, so we kept him. Then we decided that we'd get a few more this year.... but no one was selling yet... so I just ever so casually suggested that instead of buying 20 clicks at $3+ a piece we could spend $80 and get an incubator and turner and hatch them ourselves... for free.... so we did. And then did it again when someone wanted to buy ours.... then my sons kindergarten class hatched Cornish cross so we took those.... so... if my math is right... . ... then I have 49 in the coop, 7 four week olds, 5 one week olds, 30 hatching as we speak "type" and 8 more trying to hatch. Although those 38 are sold. . Gotta love chicken math!

 

[ShelbyCoral]

I call these my "Zebra" chicks. They are 7/8th Cubalaya and 1/8th Cornish. Does anyone know what causes this coloring? The mother is blue and the father is a recessive white, spangled rooster.



These are the parents.

WOW PRETTY! Me like.