I have electricity in my coop, but I knew if I turned the lights on the flock would be more difficult to deal with. After dinner I packed them up in the dark with a headlamp (which died mid-project) and a flash light.
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Last Sunday, I assembled six moving boxes which I had picked up for free at the local recycling centre and filled the bottom with shredded paper I’d brought home from work. I was hoping to sell as many birds as I could to one buyer and I did. I looked at a combination of factors: beautiful birds, interesting features, age, egg shell colour and what genetics were in the mix. How do you cut that many? Believe me, the decision was difficult. That still left me with chickens and my ultimate goal was 25. So that came to 16 and that didn’t include the many chicks who went off to new homes in the summer. Two weeks ago, the frizzled cockerel was adopted and three girls went to another home. One of the problems of having a larger flock is having to monitor how each individual is doing and oftentimes illnesses come to light only when a bird is really sick.Īfter having re-homed 14 hens last spring, I dipped my toe in the water by re-homing a few more: one family on Gabriola took four hens and two cockerels two boys went off to Quadra Island and another to Lasqueti Island a single hen found a home in a small flock and two olive eggers went off to an urban keeper looking for retirement hens.
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And after having a rough season of a series of health issues in my flock I wanted the opportunity to be able to spend more ‘quality’ time with fewer birds. I vowed not to be a victim of chicken math and take on more work than I wanted to manage. I’ve been saying for weeks, if not months, that I will be downsizing my flock. Knowing you have a problem is the first step to getting a grip on it. At least I recognized I was over my limit. Truthfully, it was sometimes hard to know the exact number because the flock fluctuated as birds were coming and going. When they were in the pen it didn’t seem like many, but when folks asked me how many birds I had I started to say ‘too many’. This summer I was well over that – some of them were chicks I was growing out before re-homing, but even then, I was over capacity. At some point though, we need to ask ourselves how many chickens are enough? Whatever the situation it’s easy to rationalize our ever expanding flocks. I am as susceptible as anyone else to wanting one of every kind of chicken keeping chicks my broodies have hatched taking in rescues or not being able to turn down a good deal. Chicken math sounds more benign than chicken addiction, but in some cases I think they are interchangeable. I often post memes and cartoons on my Facebook page that point out this phenomenon – it may hit close to home, we know that it might apply to us, but shrug it off. The actual color and size of the item may be slightly different from the visual image due to different monitor and light effects.I probably don’t have to explain what chicken math is, but for those of you who don’t know it’s the insidious habit of acquiring a few more birds than you had originally intended.
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