What is chicken math

[eenie114]

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so basicly you have to get 30 chickens to get 6 good ones

Egg-zactly!

Isn't chicken math wonderful?!

 

[CrittersNPets]

Don't forget, in case of large natural disaster we might need even more chickens so we have meat and eggs for survival. That's what I told myself as I set the incubator today. Or maybe that's what I told DH, sounded good to me though

 

[txhomegrown]

So, according to Farmboy's formula, I only have 3 chickens. OMG!!! I need more chickens!

 

[chook pen jen]

txhomegrown
please check your math , I dont think you have any chickens

 

[babyrnlc]

Here's our chicken math.

My parents and my family live on the same property. We decided to go into chickens together (my mother and I).

We wanted 4 laying hens. We built a coop for 4 (we later made it bigger to accomadate our math).

We got two laying hens, and 7 chicks because some might become roosters you know (we had a place for any unwanted birds.).

We lost 1 of the older chicks to a dog. So we needed to replace her, so I went to the feed store and got 3 pullets (still could have a rooster and you cant buy one chick alone.) So I go into the feed store a week later and get 3 more pullets, just because I already have a brooder might as well, they were cheep!

We gave away two roo chicks and a black jersey giant (my friend wanted a jg and I did not).

We had another dog attack after the run was blown over in a horrible wind storm (the only night I did not close the coop! And do not make pvc runs! WE now have 2x4's), so we lost my precious penny, the 3 month old barred rock chick and 3 EE chicks. So to replace them we got 3 pol pullets. (2 barred rock and 1 ameraucan/buff orpington cross.)

So that is 10 ladies that we are planning on keeping! We wanted 4!

 

[Spookwriter]

Please do not listen to these liars try to explain Chicken Math. They will
only confuse you.

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 bondafied 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 thatnumber 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...

 

[Spookwriter]

Another acceptable method is the use of Chicken-Math in counting
Silkies and other show chickens.

I have TWO silkies. My little girl needed only TWO silkies for 4-H. Two
is a very simple number to keep track of. TWO. That's the number after
ONE.

So we got ready for show chickens. New coop, new feeders, new everything.
These chickens may never hang about with regular yardbirds.

And then we try to find the perfect Silkies.

A 100 miles away.

Much too far to take a chance of buying a ugly bird.

So we end up with 15 baby birds. Would of bought more, but that's all he had.
15 is more that I need, 15 is more than I want. Some will be roo's, some will be
unfit fot show. We take no chance. Buy them all.

Come home.

Build bigger coop. Buy more of everything.

Now raise 15 birds. 6 of which were indeed roosters. So we're down to 9 possible
birds.

Of those 9, only 4 were white. Mark off 5 more.

She wants fluffy white Show Silkies.

Of the 4 remaining, one is skitish.

We're down to 3 now.

Of the three, two look very much alike. Almost like twins. Twin chickens don't happen.
Fair judges won't believe it.

So we decide on only one of the twins.

We're down to TWO perfect show birds by fair time.

Check the math. if you need to.

15 equal 2... every time.

 

[Laurajean]

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I sat with a calculator following Spookwriter's formula very carefully, used a pencil and scrap paper when needed, and after several rechecks on my calculations and based on the fact that it's all based on eggs SOLD...... I discovered that I have no chickens. Who knew? Guess I should get some chickens.....

 

[MustLoveHens]

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Now who is the liar Mr Spookwriter Sir?*says this with the upmost respect*

It is entirely possible to have a half a chicken. Bantam laying hens are a half a chicken (.5) and the tiny ones ie. Serama laying hens qualify as a quarter of a chicken (.25).
I have three bantam hens. One is old and does not lay so she does not count. The other 2 do lay but since they are bantams, I have only 1 chicken.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

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Now who is the liar Mr Spookwriter Sir?*says this with the upmost respect*

It is entirely possible to have a half a chicken. Bantam laying hens are a half a chicken (.5) and the tiny ones ie. Serama laying hens qualify as a quarter of a chicken (.25).
I have three bantam hens. One is old and does not lay so she does not count. The other 2 do lay but since they are bantams, I have only 1 chicken.

Since they are bantam, I don't think they should really count at all... So you have no chickens, you need to order chickens!