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I like your way of thinking !! I may need to use that one! My DH gave me a 10 chicken limit, and I had 10 up until Sunday....then I got a Serama .... but they are so little, they only count as about 1/6 th of a normal sized chicken, so 10-1/6, can still be rounded down to 10.
Its when I get 3 more Seramas, that I have to actually start rounding up to 11.
you need to relearn chicken math...you can't count birds that don't lay...ordered birds don't count because you can't count your chickens before they hatch...seramas aren't really chickens...and i like bantams but them things is small so they really don't count...plus anything with a name doesn't count cuz it is family...see how I am going here...besides he said the limit was per pen...right? so obviously you need more birds
You ARE a teacher! I like this new chicken math you speak of.
My husband gasped when I said I was picking up 4 dozen hatching eggs the other day. Just wait until I get on of the big incubators that holds 100 eggs.
Oh, wait, I forgot to answer the original question.
I started with just 8 hens from my neighbor. My dog killed them. I had to get more. I had to order at least 25, so my next two orders were 25 each, so I could get two free chicks. I got more free ones than that because MM had extras. Most of them were meat birds. The ones that weren't, my dog (she was a puppy at the time) killed them. I was so distraught that only more chickens could console me. So, in the next spring, I started hatching with 2 incubators, and I bought too many to stop and count. Before I knew what was happening, I had about 160. I really lost count because I am not good at math AT ALL. I did get rid of the extra roos, butchered the meaties, sold off some of the ones I will not breed. Now I have about 50 outside, 11 in the brooder box, 6 in the garage, about 7 dozen in the incubators and another dozen on their way. I will be hatching from my own once I get my breeding pens set up so they can be purebred eggs. It is so nice to not restrict myself to numbers. It is very freeing.
Chickens are like Lays potato chips, no one can have just one...breed, coop, flock. You get the picture, right?
I like your way of thinking !! I may need to use that one! My DH gave me a 10 chicken limit, and I had 10 up until Sunday....then I got a Serama .... but they are so little, they only count as about 1/6 th of a normal sized chicken, so 10-1/6, can still be rounded down to 10.
you need to relearn chicken math...you can't count birds that don't lay...ordered birds don't count because you can't count your chickens before they hatch...seramas aren't really chickens...and i like bantams but them things is small so they really don't count...plus anything with a name doesn't count cuz it is family...see how I am going here...besides he said the limit was per pen...right? so obviously you need more birds
You ARE a teacher! I like this new chicken math you speak of.
My husband gasped when I said I was picking up 4 dozen hatching eggs the other day. Just wait until I get on of the big incubators that holds 100 eggs.
Oh, wait, I forgot to answer the original question.
I started with just 8 hens from my neighbor. My dog killed them. I had to get more. I had to order at least 25, so my next two orders were 25 each, so I could get two free chicks. I got more free ones than that because MM had extras. Most of them were meat birds. The ones that weren't, my dog (she was a puppy at the time) killed them. I was so distraught that only more chickens could console me. So, in the next spring, I started hatching with 2 incubators, and I bought too many to stop and count. Before I knew what was happening, I had about 160. I really lost count because I am not good at math AT ALL. I did get rid of the extra roos, butchered the meaties, sold off some of the ones I will not breed. Now I have about 50 outside, 11 in the brooder box, 6 in the garage, about 7 dozen in the incubators and another dozen on their way. I will be hatching from my own once I get my breeding pens set up so they can be purebred eggs. It is so nice to not restrict myself to numbers. It is very freeing.
Chickens are like Lays potato chips, no one can have just one...breed, coop, flock. You get the picture, right?
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