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Farm Animal math

The animal population is rapidly growing.  Perhaps a bit faster than I expected.  We now have these extremely mighty barn cats.  These tiny two were destined for the pound, so they have ended up with us.  We wanted boys, so of course it looks like they are girls.  Tigger & Pooh are cute like only kittens can be and I am not really a cat person, so this is saying a lot.  Their job will be to help balance out the mice population eventually and since I am not a rodent person, this sounds pretty good.

Adding cats is suppose to subtract mice, I guess that comes out about even (one hopes).  However, I was just informed that since we now had barn kittens, we should get our baby chicks (that will grow into egg laying hens) soon, because if we wait until the kittens are cats they might subtract our baby chick population by mistake.I wonder what animal we’ll need to add once we’ve included chickens.

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  • Bill June 11, 2012, 12:34 pm

    Now you have chickens and a horse, if my memory serves me correctly from Rosemary / Tyrells farm days all you need now are:
    Donkey
    Goat
    Pigs – ham and bacon
    Ducks
    Geese
    Guinea Fowl – brilliant and very noisy guard “dogs”
    Quail – at least 100 eggs to make a decent scrambled egg
    at least 6 dogs and three cats

    • Ellen June 11, 2012, 5:05 pm

      Dear Bill,
      That is music to Laura’s ears! However, we do now have 3 cats and 2 dogs, the quail run free.

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