![]() ![]() To calculate my own recipe, I needed a tool to “plug and play” ingredients to reach a desirable protein and fat content. What is available online does not typically work for my region. Wheat, rye, quinoa, sesame seed, and flax seed typically do not, and these are frequent flyers on many ingredient lists. For example, lentils, amaranth, buckwheat, corn, peas, sunflower seeds, and soybeans all grow well in Zone 6B. There are many poultry feed recipes available online, but few of them incorporated what I am capable of growing in my region. In planning what to grow, I had to plan in advance what I can incorporate into the feed and still provide balanced nutrition, so that means I need to formulate feed ratios before I begin growing. It is doubtful I am growing enough for more than 1-2 months of feed, but I wanted to ensure the things I am growing can be grown and harvested successfully. This year I have decided to grow a few items that could be used to feed my chickens. #Chicken math calculator download#You cannot edit it as is, but you can download it as an Excel sheet and then begin editing. Then I went to another feed store and saw baby chicks….bought 8 of them! Re-homed 2 roosters, a hen died from being r***d by one of those roosters! 1 died from a neighbors dog attack, and one pullet “came up missing”.To save time in scrolling you can click HERE to check out the calculator, but I encourage you to read this page at least once. 2 were DOA (not Meyer Hatchery, from a different place I will no longer order from) and 1 died the next day. ![]() One of the “pullets” was a “cockerel” so I ordered a replacement, but had to order the required shipment amount, so I added 5 more. The next spring I wanted hens that produce COLORFUL eggs, so I ordered 5 more. I started with 6 (because when you buy them from a feed store in KY you are REQUIRED to purchase at least 6). There is no exact rhyme or reason to chicken math, but that is part of its beauty! How has your flock grown in unexpected ways? Please share your own chicken math in the comments! 12 adolescent chicks (but they were a gift so they don’t actually count towards a total) = not knowing how many chickens I have.21 chicks (needed some more color in the egg basket) = 10 broilers.50 (ish) chickens + 12 sale chicks = too many brown eggs.32 chickens + 1 guard dog = 2 bantams (but bantams only equal ½ a chicken).First flock of 14 chickens + 6 chicks = 2 goats.Here are some examples of my own chicken math: Throughout your chicken keeping adventures, your knowledge and experience will grow, and chances are very high that the quantity of your flock will also grow. Or maybe you planned to only have chickens but have mastered advanced chicken math and now have ducks, rabbits, and a cow! My personal theory on chicken math is not only are chickens a lot of fun to keep, they are relatively low maintenance, and do not take up much space, so it becomes very easy to say “what difference would a few more make?” Chicken math can be perpetuated in many different ways perhaps a broody hen hatched some eggs, you incubated eggs yourself, Meyer Hatchery had a sale, or you were gifted some birds. Perhaps you planned to have 6 birds but now somehow have 14, 22, 30. These little ladies spent the winter growing out in a greenhouse. They’re so little and cute at first, but then we realize that chicks grow fast and need more space. ![]()
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