CHICKEN MATH QUOTES FREE
Hubby built an addition to the coop since they don't free range (three dogs would eat them and between the bear, cyote, fox, raccons and ferral cats we have here I fear for them) so the Taj Mahal is now just over 100 sqft.Nellie (a black java) turned out to be Ned so I returned him to the farm - leaving me with 7.
I went to pick up the two from my friend and of course he had a larger girl (2 wks older than the rest) nobody wanted - I was a sucker and took her totaling 8 if you are keeping up with me.I drove down to a local farm and fell in love with the chicks and purchased 5.Order never arrived, apparently the hatchery ran out so I got a credit. Heard horror stories of dead chick deliveries so I asked a friend to hold 2 from eggs he was hatching (surprise chicks) in case all 4 chicks didn't survive.Ordered 4 from hatchery in Feb 2012 to arrive in May since TSC could only sell 6 and i didn't want that many - HA!.Just wanted 3 or 4 chickens to have eggs for my family where we knew how they were fed and treated. I'm with both of you -Ok, Here's my math. Went one week with empty living room lol bought 8 more baby's ( hubby ordered great big coop, got here last week).(now up to 21) decided to get ducks bought 2 then last week bought 3 more ducks so there's my chicken and duck math.lol Now we are into January found a store that sells chicks all year round, buy six baby chicks.lol(up to 15) got the baby's moved into thier coop. By December decided we had room for three to four more in our coop, (bought a small coop to use in the spring ha ha ha), so got two hen and rooster that someone was selling, (up to 6)put them in smaller coop to get everyone used to each other for a few weeks got them all settled in the bigger coop, then one of the original hens we got, died(down to 5) (not sure why? Our very first lost) quickly found someone was selling 4 hens, so we bought them (up to 9).( stayed a few weeks seperate in the smaller coop until it seemed like everyone was ok with each other and moved everyone into the bigger coop. Here's my chicken math, got coop in September, so got three hens that needed to be rehomed.
Luckily a friend has offered to help us build coops 2 and 3. Now we aren't getting enough eggs, so decided to get 4 new chicks (split an order with a friend.) By the time we got all the breeds we wanted from what we could find locally: (2 EEs, a bantam silkie, a welsummer, a brown leghorn, a RIR, and an australorp) now we have 11 chickens! And need two new coops, one for the blind one who needs to live separated from everyone else, and one for the new babies, who will go outside in early May, weather permitting.ĭid I mention we live on a 1/3 of an acre, on Main Street in the middle of our town - in the historic district? And we have precious few building skills? (Coop 1 was made from PVC pipe, but I hate bending over to walk in and it's hard to clean. 3 left in the coop - a Columbian Wyandotte, a Golden-Laced Wyandotte, and the Olive Egger. Hawk attacked another, left it blind, residing in our living room. (We went to the dog warden, put up a fence, and all was well.)Įarly this spring, a hawk got one: 4 chickens. Got two more (an OE and an EE that turned out to lay brown eggs) from a backyard breeder: up to 6. We started last spring with six birds.one roo got rehomed, one pullet disappeared (we blame the neighbor's dog): we were down to 4.
I never thought I'd fall victim to chicken math.
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