Chickens are coming to Sassafras Crest Farm this summer! So, let’s get right into explaining “chicken math” for those of you who don’t know! For my equestrian friends, yes “chicken math” is like “horse math” only times a hundred. Because of course chickens are smaller and cost much less. I mean realistically, if I had more acreage, and could maintain a happy marriage with 5-10 more horses I would! So why chickens you ask? Chickens are MUCH easier to sneak onto your homestead and what's even cooler they work for you. Plus, an additional chicken here or there just might go unnoticed by your better half! So, save yourself thousands of dollars skip bringing home that 5th or 6th horse and get some more chickens. It's totally justifiable.
So, regardless of the "chicken" logic, here's how chicken math starts adding up and getting you in the frying pan. You buy a chicken from a local hatchery, but you can’t actually just buy one chicken. No, you have to buy ten and the local hatchery sends 15. Then, in the madness of chicken buying, you forget you bought some from another hatchery and you end up with twenty more. You also can’t leave out your local feed store. You run by your local feed store for something important. Seriously, what farmer doesn’t go to their local feed store every other day for something? Lo’ and behold you see a chicken swap happening right in the parking lot. Yes, that’s right. You drag home another ten-fifteen “rare” chickens…
At this point you don’t even know how many you have! This is chicken math.
This is not a true chicken math story...or is it? Anyone need eggs?
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