I have left this as an open ended board game so you can use it however you want to! Below are a few ideas to get you started. ![]() When you roll the dice simply read the number on the side facing up and then move forward or backward the amount of spaces it shows you on the dice! One each side you’ll see a + number or a – number. Just cut out the printed sheet, fold along the dotted lines, then tape or glue into place! (Or if you want to go the easy way just cut and glue each side onto a small block of wood instead!) The 3D cube game piece is fairly simple to create. Print our FREE 3D Chicken Life Cycle Spinner here! ![]() My mother texted me absolutely concerned.Īll she did was reply with a photo… a photo of a box FILLED with little chicks! The result? FORTY-THREE chicks! A large percentage were the OE chicks but there were also Black Copper Marans, Dark Copper Marans AND, the variety I never knew I needed, BLUE Copper Marans.Not only does this board game reinforce the chicken’s life cycle but it also works on simple math skills too! Each side of the dice has a phase of the chicken’s life cycle and will then tell you to move forward so many spaces or move backwards. I told them it was no problem, our brooder house is set up for 100 meat bird chicks at a time! They had reached out to see if we could take the chicks a week early as this week’s shipment to Texas was going to have to be postponed. I had ordered eight but had told the Facebook page responder-person that I would be willing to go as high as twelve. Stuck in an appointment, my mother actually ended up picking up the OE chicks for me. Then I went to get the Olive Egger chicks… There are seven ColorPak chicks remaining and TEN of the Dark Copper Marans for a total of 17 chicks. Our chick count was down but my original numbers were off. He was long gone into the night and, as I stared forlornly out the small garage door window, I knew there would be no point in trying to get the chick back. I should have realized that he was a large enough male that he could have unhooked the cover and that he would be curious enough about the warmth and the chicks to want to investigate. While extremely sad, I have only myself to blame. 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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