Things you never said until you had chickens.......

[MadamContrary]

Realized today my Athena is a boy: " You promised me you were a girl! You little turn coat!" He is the best cuddler of the bunch too, so sad as I cannot keep him

 

[deserthomestead]

Said by DH: "Sorry, Mom. Amanda can't come to the phone right now. She's cleaning the chicks' butts."

 

[Chickies4ever]

Me- *stirring stuff in pot*
Nicky- ( friend) " Is that for lunch? I am starving.
Me_ You kidding me?! This is for the girls lunch.
Nicky- THEY GET GOURMET FOOD!
Me- I know :3

 

[CherishHolland]

Just recently renamed my BO who was supposed to be a pullet,his new name is now H*rny Henry because he mounts everything,even the snow shovel

 

[kaybats]

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my neighbor, to me..."I'll trade ya some of my moo doo for some of your cock-a-doodle-doo" 
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LOL!

 

[chickencrazy429]

"Mom, we need to get a couple roosters, I just had an amazing idea for barring-- imagine colored barring!" Genius idea, right?

 

[Dawnschix]

And for non-sexable breeds, you have to assume that 50% of the babies will be males - so if you need/want 4 hens, then you have to buy 8. (Or at least that's what I told myself and DH yesterday as I was putting our 8 new fluffy butts in the brooder...) YES!

(Do they make medication for chicken addicts.?.?.?.?...)

Hahahahaha, I am now lovingly called "Crazy Chicken lady" by my boyfriend. Last night he called me that in reference to something years ago BEFORE I had chickens and I said, "Hey, I didnt even have chickens then!" he said....'yeah but she was always inside you!!'

Chickens are just COOL!!!

 

[AmberRex]

Another way to do chicken math is to apply the CHCKN theorem. when you have 50 birds 25 of which are meat birds they don't count so you effectively have space for 25 more. You can only buy in threes so you buy 6 of diff. breeds. After two weeks a sufficient amount of time has passed to allow you to breed so you set 1/2 a dozen eggs into the incubator and then get a supply of day olds to the same amount for the due date just in case only one hatches and then if they all hatch well then the ones that you bought in don't really count so you still have room for.... 25+6+6+6-6=37 50-37=13. Then if you change it into a fraction 13/1, invert it and multiply by -1/2. This leaves you with -0.4230769230769230769230769230769. Now you round up to -5 which really means that you have 5 chickens minus a rooster so 4 chickens so theoretically you have room for 46 chickens plus three to insure against loss and then if they breedbythemselveswithonlyalittlebitofhelpfromyousupplyingincubatoretc. then that's not your problem. QED.


Back to the title...

( Gerald is our turkey)

"Look if I've told you once then I've told you a thousand times... when you go out DON'T leave Gerald minding the house because the responsibility upsets her...and she never turns the TV off when she's finished watching it."

 

[chickencrazy429]

Another way to do chicken math is to apply the CHCKN theorem. when you have 50 birds 25 of which are meat birds they don't count so you effectively have space for 25 more. You can only buy in threes so you buy 6 of diff. breeds. After two weeks a sufficient amount of time has passed to allow you to breed so you set 1/2 a dozen eggs into the incubator and then get a supply of day olds to the same amount for the due date just in case only one hatches and then if they all hatch well then the ones that you bought in don't really count so you still have room for.... 25+6+6+6-6=37 50-37=13. Then if you change it into a fraction 13/1, invert it and multiply by -1/2. This leaves you with -0.4230769230769230769230769230769. Now you round up to -5 which really means that you have 5 chickens minus a rooster so 4 chickens so theoretically you have room for 46 chickens plus three to insure against loss and then if they breedbythemselveswithonlyalittlebitofhelpfromyousupplyingincubatoretc. then that's not your problem. QED.


Back to the title...

( Gerald is our turkey)

"Look if I've told you once then I've told you a thousand times... when you go out DON'T leave Gerald minding the house because the responsibility upsets her...and she never turns the TV off when she's finished watching it."

GREAT chicken math there!!!

 

[cknnewbie]

Another way to do chicken math is to apply the CHCKN theorem. when you have 50 birds 25 of which are meat birds they don't count so you effectively have space for 25 more. You can only buy in threes so you buy 6 of diff. breeds. After two weeks a sufficient amount of time has passed to allow you to breed so you set 1/2 a dozen eggs into the incubator and then get a supply of day olds to the same amount for the due date just in case only one hatches and then if they all hatch well then the ones that you bought in don't really count so you still have room for.... 25+6+6+6-6=37 50-37=13. Then if you change it into a fraction 13/1, invert it and multiply by -1/2. This leaves you with -0.4230769230769230769230769230769. Now you round up to -5 which really means that you have 5 chickens minus a rooster so 4 chickens so theoretically you have room for 46 chickens plus three to insure against loss and then if they breedbythemselveswithonlyalittlebitofhelpfromyousupplyingincubatoretc. then that's not your problem. QED.


Back to the title...

( Gerald is our turkey)

"Look if I've told you once then I've told you a thousand times... when you go out DON'T leave Gerald minding the house because the responsibility upsets her...and she never turns the TV off when she's finished watching it."

I do believe you move to the front of the Chicken Math class, Professor!