Why didn't anyone warn me that brand new chicks are adorable?!

[mnabity]

So if Silkies count as half a chicken do my 3 frizzles(who are only as tall as my EEs legs maybe) only count as 1/3 chicken? 3 bantam frizzles = 1 standard right? Or maybe since they are smaller than my silkies I could say 2 frizzles= 1 silkie and 2 silkies = 1 standard so therefore 4 frizzles = 1 standard! Need more chickens!

 

[Freya]

I'm loving my chickens. We only have a few, but my rooster just started learning how to crow. Once in a great while we hear one. Last week I came home in the afternoon from having foot surgery and when I got out of the car the rooster started cock a doodle doo-ing over and over at me like he was greeting me and happy I was ok. I started hobbling over to the coop to say hello to him, but my hubby yelled at me to go lay down lol! I know the rooster has no clue what I just went through, but it's the thought that counts!

 

[juliaronan]

I love the "chicken math"! Works for me! I am a first time "mama" and have five youngsters in the basement, waiting for them to get big enough to put outside, and ALREADY planning for spring and the NEXT breed to order....chicken fever is rampant! Oh my, they are soooo precious!

Patient husband, five horses, one pug (came with the husband), five buff orpington babies

 

[Tracydr]

The cutest are the tiny little OEGBs. Also, guinea meets are adorable. Peachicks are big and gangly but get so attached to you, their new mommy because they actually bond, that they are really fun to raise, very smart.

 

[TheHalfWayCoop]

Seriously, the eggs should exit the chicken with a label already inplace like cigarettes showing exactly what can happen to you when you become a chicken math crazed hatch-o-holic! I had no idea! Our original silkies were cute when we got them at 3wks old, I love having them, enjoy visiting with them, look forward to collecting their eggs and buying them feed, but nothing, I mean nothing, prepared me for the sheer adorableness of a freshly fluffed peeper hoping around with it's hatch mates. I am SO thankful I let the third broody hen we have sit on another clutch of eggs (only four, that's all she layed!) so that hopefully by the 19th we'll be ready to do this again... AND our white silkies just started laying so hopefully we can hatch their eggs soon too... Now I'm trying to figure out a way to build them a brooder that I can incorporate into our livingroom so I can watch chick tv all day and not have to abandon the kidlets while I run downstairs to 'do laundry' and check on my babies!!!

I couldn't wait for DH to go to bed lastnight so that I could go sit downstairs without being bothered

'It's 9pm... are you sure you aren't ready for bed now? 5am comes mighty early on Fridays...'