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[ChickDancer]

chicken math??? LOL God help me...................

Yes, chicken math goes like this:

You go to the store to see about possibly getting some chicks. You're thinking maybe three or four. The store has a minimum purchase of 6 (which Tractor Supply usually does). So you need to get 6. But there's only 7 left in the bin, and you don't want to leave one lonely, so you buy him too. The next week you just go get feed, but they have new chicks. Oh, they're SO adorable! You come home with with the feed.... and another 6 chicks.

You swear that's it. No more chicks. But you need more feed about 6 weeks later. And when you get there, they have a NEW breed that you've never seen before. So there goes another six.


THEN.... you buy an incubator....

And from then on there is only multiplication and addition - NO SUBTRACTION!

You don't understand how it works. You just know that somehow you only wanted "maybe" three chicks for some fresh eggs now and then. That's all you really remember...

 

[ChickDancer]

I only dream of having that many, and can only imagine what itbwould look like to see that many different breeds running around. A beautiful sight I'm sure.

For the most part, they won't be running around. I'm putting each breed in their own pen. I plan to have 11 separate pens up. And once I get my tools found (nephews buried them in the barn) I will start clearing out spots in the woods for the pens. I'd rather them be kinda hidden in the woods, so they are sheltered from strong wind and direct sunlight.

 

[maijuub92]

X2!
Seriously, if I could afford it, I'd become a chicken breeder/farmer full time. Who knows, maybe someday it'll happen!

I have the dream to one day build a large scale natural self sustaining environment for chickens (and other farm animals) so I wouldn't have to worry about preditors but not have to sacrifice there freedom. Then to use manure and compost for a large garden. Also I would love to incorporate a breeding program into it to stay true to seperate breeds. I would also love to go around and build coops and setups for people to have there own Backyard flocks of all different varietys to meet there needs. But I'm still young so I don't think its out of reach. I'm glad to have you all here on BYC, as my parents don't take as much interest in the chickens as I do, and my freinds would probly think I'm weird for being into it. As a little kid I grew up in a kinda rural enviroment with people that had small home flocks. Then moved to the city with my dad and live with him and grew up in the city life. There's just something to the self sustaining life that is beautiful to me. But I guess I'm not the average young city guy. Lol

 

[maijuub92]

For the most part, they won't be running around. I'm putting each breed in their own pen. I plan to have 11 separate pens up. And once I get my tools found (nephews buried them in the barn) I will start clearing out spots in the woods for the pens. I'd rather them be kinda hidden in the woods, so they are sheltered from strong wind and direct sunlight.

I can't wait to get to that point. But I'm sure it happens quicker than one would expect.

 

[ChickDancer]

I can't wait to get to that point. But I'm sure it happens quicker than one would expect.

All I'm really doing, is spending $100 every month on this screen canopy (click the words).

The nests and roosts I will have to build myself. But I make about 5-6 nest boxes out of one 4x8 piece of plywood. And the roosts will just be 2x4's fashioned into a saw-horse type set-up.

 

[RoboDuck]

Quote: Why come don't you have clickables?

Quote: Our chicken math started with GAM. I finally broke down and told her she could have chickens in the back yard. So it started with 6 or 8. Then it started multiplying from there. Then we moved them to the farm. Then it kept multiplying and adding at the same time. We have around 85 or 90 chickens/chicks right now. About 15 ducks. 1 turkey. And another 100 or so eggs incubating (ducks,chickens, geese) AND I still have orders in for about 30 more eggs for turkeys and geese. And I should be getting my 2 Cotton Patch goslings in the next couple of weeks. The math saying "My Dear Aunt Sally" needs to start seeing some Dear Sally or we're going to be over run.

 

[maijuub92]

Yes, chicken math goes like this:


You go to the store to see about possibly getting some chicks. You're thinking maybe three or four. The store has a minimum purchase of 6 (which Tractor Supply usually does). So you need to get 6. But there's only 7 left in the bin, and you don't want to leave one lonely, so you buy him too. The next week you just go get feed, but they have new chicks. Oh, they're SO adorable! You come home with with the feed.... and another 6 chicks.


You swear that's it. No more chicks. But you need more feed about 6 weeks later. And when you get there, they have a NEW breed that you've never seen before. So there goes another six.



THEN.... you buy an incubator....


And from then on there is only multiplication and addition - NO SUBTRACTION!


You don't understand how it works. You just know that somehow you only wanted "maybe" three chicks for some fresh eggs now and then. That's all you really remember...

My parents wanted 3 hens so last year the day before Easter I picked 3 up after work and snuck them in later when my babie bro wasn't around and we had them there the next mornin when he awoke. The next week I stopped back by the local feed and seed to just check out what they still had. Ended up picking up 2 more that were just so darn cute. (And not something I a had sen before, EE and Welsumer) then I was hooked. So I started looking into different breeds after tryin to figure out on here what I already had, and loved the lacing look. So I was talking with some other local fellow chicken lovers and ended up with a BLRW breeding pair that they had picked up for me at auction. So then I wanted to go with them to the auction to jusy check things out, ended up coming home with what was supposed to be a blue silkie hen. NOW I have some of my muts In my homade incubator

 

[RoboDuck]

Of course 15 of the above chicks were counted before they arrived. I can't believe how long these poor little guys have been in transit. This is ridiculous.

March 27, 2014

Depart USPS Sort Facility

KANSAS CITY, MO 64121
March 27, 2014 , 1:44 pm

Processed through USPS Sort Facility

KANSAS CITY, MO 64121
March 26, 2014

Depart USPS Sort Facility

SPRINGFIELD, MO 65801

This is the update on the tracking as of 15 minutes ago.

 

[maijuub92]

All I'm really doing, is spending $100 every month on this screen canopy (click the words).


The nests and roosts I will have to build myself. But I make about 5-6 nest boxes out of one 4x8 piece of plywood. And the roosts will just be 2x4's fashioned into a saw-horse type set-up.

Thats a neat setup. I use bamboo for all my roosting spots. And plan to try and use others old materials in future builds.

 

[abmaddox1981]

So on the subject of chicken math.
I currently have (grown fowl) 7 silkies, 15 mutts, 2 BLRW with 2 wyandotte x Brahma, 3 ameracuana, 1 pekin duck, and 2 RP turkeys. Broodet fowl: 4 Buckeyes, 4 Lav Orps, 1 Sumatra, 16 silver cuckoo Marans, 2 Lt Brahma, 4 Cornish, 8 BYM, 4 b/bcm.
In the incubator: 3 doz silkies (1 doz is @Missyktsm), 16 turkey eggs, 19 BBS English Orps, 1 bresse egg.
Going in the bator tomorrow: 2 doz black AMs, 1 doz Dorking and whatever else I can cram in.