![]() ![]() He had simply used his large size to barrel through the hole, get into the garage, investigate the box of chicks and, as I came through the garage door after hearing the noise of the covering falling off, grabbed a poor little ColorPak chick! I had, apparently, made the mistake of putting the door cover on the wrong side of the garage door. Knowing that he really enjoys a delicious meal any time he can get it, that the chicks would be easy pickings for him. I had intentionally placed the cover on the cat door to the outside world because my fiancé’s male cat had been sneaking in to sleep on top of my barn jackets on the freezers. When I walked into the garage yesterday, where the chicks were hanging out before moving to the brooder house that was still drying from the wash out a few days ago, I shrieked loud enough to have the fiancé come running! The latter two breeds were coming from my favorite hatchery in Junction City, Oregon, Jenks Hatchery. I had ordered eight olive egger (OE) chicks to go with my eight ColorPaks and my eight Dark Copper Marans. ![]() ![]() While the meat birds are gone, frozen and being thoroughly enjoyed - in fact, I have a pot simmer three chicken carcasses right now to make bone broth, the first step my secret sauce chicken stock that I have been canning every other week. I know I told you in the last blog that we had planned to have six chickens and that that somehow turned into 14 laying hens and 550 meat birds. She was talking about the “crazy thing” of “chicken math” and how, no matter how hard you try to plan for a specific number of chickens, you will always (ALWAYS) end up with more than what you planned for. The joke of #ChickenMath started due to a TikTok by Paige at Farmhouse Vernacular. I forgot to take into account, in the algorithm, the craziness of chicken math. Febru(Thursday) - I spoke too soon yesterday when I wrote about adding in 28 new laying hens. ![]()
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