First, this keeps the supplies together and makes them easy to grab. I keep my chicken first aid kit supplies in a large plastic dishpan. You may think you’ll never need a syringe and needle, but I recently used mine to “deflate” a chick with a ruptured air sac. If you can add to that, pipettes or an eyedropper, and syringes and needles are all handy to have. The short list here is disposable gloves, tweezers, scissors, and disposable scalpels.
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You'll also get the free download 25 Ways to save money raising chickens.Disposable scalpels, tweezers, pipettes and syringes are all handy tools. Want information on raising chickens sent right to your email weekly? Click right here to join my list and get new posts sent directly to you the day they're published. If you want to learn more about training chickens to be friendly, come when called and more check out this collection of posts I've written on training chickens, guineas and more! There are actually a lot more funny sounding chicken terms, but these are the ones I see used most often. There were quail in there somewhere too, but I digress! Right?Ĭhicken math is how I started out with 3 guinea fowl and 6 chickens and ended up with over 80 poultry including the ducks and geese.
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You have enough room for three full size hens but banties are smaller so shouldn't they count at.like.maybe, a third of a hen.size wise? So if a banty is only a third of a standard hen size then you can have nine banties and seven regular hens. Or maybe after your first set of 10 chicks with three being roosters, you decide to add bantam size chickens to your flock. Of course this is when only one of those is a boy and now you've got 12! Obviously you can't get rid of them because you raised them all and If something happens to some of your hens then you'll have less than 10!
I get rid of the three roosters but then I decide to get six more chickens because half of them might also be boys and I need to end up with 10 hens. I start out with 10 chicks, but 3 end up being boys and I can't have roosters. It usually starts something like: I built a chicken coop big enough for 10 chickens. I personally prefer to say that my hens make me breakfast, it just makes it sound a little nicer! Lol Still means the same thing though.Ĭhicken math describes how people start out with one goal number of how many chickens they are going to have and a few years (okay, sometimes months!) later they have a completely different number. If you ever seen a pullet do the squat and lay an egg while she's mid walk, you'll totally understand this saying! New layers usually catch on and use the nest box by about the third egg. That is in reference to the fact that the egg and feces all come out of the same place on a chicken. There's a saying that hens poop breakfast. There are actually a bunch of strange sounding or funny meaning terms that we use when raising chickens. Maybe because the whole point of meat birds is to butcher them? Or maybe because many people send their meat birds to a butcher to process? It's not said so much in reference to meat birds, though I'm not quite sure why. Hens that are big bullies, older hens that are past their laying age and excess or problem roosters. One of the things I learned about was freezer camp for chickens.įreezer camp is usually used as a solution for problem chickens. I don't recommend the chicken forums as a sole means of information, as I got a lot of bad advice in the beginning, but you can learn a bit there. I had read the term in a chicken forum back when I was first learning about chickens. I had that reaction the first time I heard it too.
Oh no! It's just a roundabout way to say I'm butchering them to put them in the freezer. You see freezer camp is not a nice little vacation like kids go to in the summer.
In this case freezer camp sounds a whole lot better than what I had to tell her I was going to do with these chickens. I mean, I hadn't heard of it for most of my life! I think we sometimes use certain phrases to either be funny or to soften the blow of what they really mean.
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