So now we are back up to 23 chicks and 12 hens. I took said girlfriend to a local chicken farm/hatchery and lo and behold she fell in love with 7 more chicks (Planned? Maybe ) The girlfriend said that is perfect!! We will surely lose a few to the preditors and that will give us the 25 that I wanted to begin with. So now out of my new ones we have 16 babies.
(We got them delivered in March and transit weather was VERY cold.
#CHICKEN MATH PLUS#
On arrival all 5 cochin were dead,, plus a few of the bard rocks and Wyns did not make it past the 48 hour mark. 38 chickens wont fit in the coops she says and I need to either sell some chickens or curb the order. So that gives me 26 new babies coming in which equals out to 25 total chickens right? (ok maybe it gives me 38 but who is counting?) Now at this point my girlfriend is thinking that I am insane. I ordered 10 Bard rock pullets, 1 bard rock roo, 10 white lace wyns and 5 White Frizzle Cochins, plus 1 mystery chick. I sat down to figure out how many I needed to order to get me back to the original number of 25.
We left them in the coop about a month before free ranging them in the 3 acres of grass, through out the summer we lost one here and there and by the time I ordered by second batch we had 12(the original 12 we call them since we still have them now). These 20 made it out of the 4ft by 4ft brooder and into the chicken coops that I had built for them. They were really smalla nd got laid on and squished by the others, so that left me with 20. So I started last year with 25 chicks, my first batch ever, 5 of them did not make it out of the brooder.
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