1. Paulette the Hen, must sit on her a clutch (nest) of eggs for 21 days in order to hatch them into chicks. How many weeks must Paulette sit on her nest?

2. In the spring, Chickadoo Suz orders new hatchling from the hatchery.
She ordered 2 ducklings, 3 turkey poults, 4 guinea keets, and 14 chicks.
How many babies birds did she order?

3. Farmer Ron gathers 18 eggs each day. How many dozen eggs does he gather

   a. In a week?

   b. In a month? (assume 30 days/month)

   c. In a year (based on 52 weeks/yr)?

4. Chicken feed costs $11.00 for a 50 pound bag. Chickadoo Suz's flock eats 650 pounds of feed each month. How much does Chickadoo Suz pay for feed

   a. in a month?

   b. in a year

5. If a hen lays an average of 20 eggs every month, how many will she lay in a year?

6. Farmer Ron knows his flock needs plenty of clean fresh water to lay eggs and stay cool and healthy. Each day he fills the following water containers: 3 two-gallon, 2 five-gallon, and 4 one-gallon containers. How many gallons of water does he have available for his flock?

7. Using the information in #5 above, Chickadoo Suz wants to keep the flock healthy by adding powdered vitamins to their water. The instruction on the vitamin package tell her to add ¼ teaspoon of powder for every one gallon of water. If she adds vitamin powder to every water container, how much powder, in teaspoons, will she use?

8. A hen lays one egg every 25 hours, one egg one hour later every day. However he does not lay eggs after sunset when it is dark. The sun rises at 6am and the sun sets at 6pm. The first day she lays an egg starting at 7am, How many eggs will she lay in 2 weeks?

9. Chickadoo Suz orders some baby chicks online. She must pay with a credit card before the chicks are shipped.    She must pay $2.25 each for 4 cochins,
      $2.00 each for 8 assorted cockerels (baby roosters), and
      $2.50 each for 6 barnvelders.
      Plus she has to pay a $10 charge for shipping and handling.

How much will the total charge to her credit card be?

10. Farmer Ron is fixing breakfast omelettes for his family. Each person will eat a 3-egg omelet. There are eight people in his family.

   a. How many eggs will he need?

   b. How many dozen will he need?

11. Chickadoo Suz spends $150 each month on chicken feed. She sells eggs for $3 dozen. How many dozen eggs much she sell to cover the cost of feeding her chickens?

12. Farmer Ron has 100 chickens. Each year he losses 15% of his flock due to old age, predators or illness. How many chickens does he loose each year?

13. Chickadoo Suz has 30 laying hens. She wants to build one nesting box for every 5 hens. That is, 5 hens can share one nesting box. How many nesting boxes should she build?

14. Farmer Ron is building a new chicken coop (house) for 20 chickens to sleep in. The guideline recommend 3 square feet of floor space for each chicken. How large, in square feet, must his new coop be?

15. Chickadoo Suz pays $3000 to have 500 Calendars printed by a professional printer. She sells the calendars for $13 each.

   a. How many calendars must she sell to break even (make enough money to cover all her printing costs)?

   b. How much profit (more money from sales than paid out in expenses – printing in this case) will she makes if she sell all 500 calendars at $13/ea?

   c. If she sells all calendars for $13/each but she has to pay $150/month for chicken feed all year (12 months) and also has to pays for printing the calendars, will she have a profit (more sales than expenses) or a loss (more expenses than sales)? How much profit/loss will she have?

16. Rosa is a hen. She goes broody three times each year. (Broody means she sits on eggs and hatches them into baby chicks.)

   a. If she hatches 8 chicks each time she is broody, how many baby chicks will she hatch in a year?

   b. If only ¾ (75%) of the chicks survive to adulthood, how many new chickens will be added to the flock through Rosa's broody efforts?

17. Chickadoo Suz's customer, City Chicker buys 6 dozen eggs at $3/doz. City pays Chickadoo with a $20 bill. Does Chickadoo Suz owe City Chicker change?
If yes, how much?

18. Chickadoo Suz has 15 roosters and 80 hens. She wants to maintain a healthy rooster to hen ratios of 8 hens for one rooster.

   a. With 80 hens, how many roosters will she need to reach her hen:rooster ratio?

   b. If she doesn't want to add any more hens to her flock, how many roosters will she have to find new homes for?

   c. If she is willing to add more hens to the flock so that all her roosters can stay, and still have 8 hens for every rooster, how many hens will she have to add to the flock?

19. Farmer Ron wants to build a fence around the chicken yard to protect the chickens from dogs, opossums and other predators. The chicken yard is a rectangle 120 ft x 80 ft.

   a. How many (linear) feet of fencing will he have to buy to fence the entire chicken yard?

   b. If fencing comes in 225 (linear) feet rolls, how many rolls must he buy? (He can't buy partial rolls)

   c. If he want to put a fence post every 5 feet, how many fence post will he have to buy?

   d. If fencing cost $75/roll and posts cost $3/each, how much will it cost Farmer Ron to put up his fence?

20. Hank, Farmer Ron's rooster, is sick. He needs to give Hank a shot of penicillin. The instructions tell Farmer Ron to give Hank 0.2 cc of penicillin for each pound of body weight. Hank is a large rooster; he weighs 10 pounds.

   a. How much penicillin, in cc's should Farmer Ron give Hank in each shot?

   b. In a week, how many cc's of penicillin will Farmer Ron have given Hank?

   c. The Feed Store sells penicillin in 30 cc bottles. Will one bottle of penicillin be enough for treating Hank?

21. Chickens go to bed, or roost for the night, at sunset and wake up at sunrise. In the winter the sun sets at 5:45 pm and rises at 7:15 am. For how many hours do the chickens roost?

22. Chickadoo Suz has 30 dozen eggs. She wants to donate any extra (unsold) eggs to the local food pantry. She must fill her egg orders to her customers before she will know how many dozen she can donate.

   a. She has the following orders from customers:
       3 customers order 1 doz each
       2 customers order 2 doz each
     4 customers order 18 eggs (1 ½ doz) each and
       1 customer orders 3 dozen.
      How many dozen eggs have her customers ordered?

   b. How many of her 30 dozen will she have left after filling her customer orders to donate to the food pantry?

23. Chickadoo Suz loves the protein in eggs. She eats 2 eggs everyday. Her seventeen year old cat, Sabrina, eats one hard boiled egg 3 times a week. Additionally, her dog, Bekah, eats 1 egg every day mixed in with her dry dog food.

   a. How many eggs does Chickadoo Suz eat each week?

   b. How many eggs does Sabrina eat each week?

   c. How many eggs does Bekah eat each week?

   d. If Farmer Ron also takes 1 dozen eggs to eat at work each week, how many dozen eggs do their household eat every week?

24. Chickadoo Suz and Farmer Ron are throwing a dinner party. They are serving quiche (a baked egg pie), green bean casserole and cornbread. The quiche recipe calls for 6 eggs per quiche. They are making 3 quiche. Green bean casserole calls for 2 eggs, Since this is one of Farmer Ron's favorite dishes, they are making a double batch or 2 times the recipe. For the cornbread they need 2 eggs lightly beaten.

   a, How many eggs will they need for the 3 quiche?

   b. How many eggs will they need for the casserole?

   c. For the three dishes combined, how many eggs do they need?

25. Farmer Ron is very tired after working so hard building the new chicken coop and putting up the new fence. After putting his tools away and showering, he sits down for dinner at 8 pm. He knows the roosters will wake him with their crowing around 6am. If he wants to get 9 hours of sleep, what time will he need to go to bed?

26. Chickadoo Suz and Farmer Ron want to paint the chicken yard buildings. They have 3 buildings and want to paint all of them the same color of exterior latex paint. They have to calculate the area to be painted in order to know how much paint to buy at the store.

   a. Building One, the Main Chicken House, is 20 ft long, 8 ft wide and 10 ft. high. How many square feet of exterior walls (area) does Building Two have?

   b. Building Two, the Mom and Chick House, is 6 ft long, 4 ft wide and 6 ft. high. How many square feet of exterior walls (area) does Building Two have?

   c. And, Building Three, the Infirmary, is 5 ft square by 8 ft. high. How many square feet of exterior walls (area) does Building Three have?

   d. If one gallon of paint covers 500 sq feet, how many gallons do they need to buy? (no partial gallons.)

27. Farmer Ron has 17 pullets (young hens), 2 cockerels (young roosters), 6 baby chicks, 3 roosters and 42 hens, How many chickens does he have in his flock?

28. Happy Customer buys eggs from Farmer Ron. She pays $20 and receives 5 one dozen cartons and 2 flats with two-and-one-half dozen (30 eggs) each.

   a. How many dozen eggs does Happy Customer buy?

   b. What is the average price Happy Customer pays for each dozen?

29. Chickadoo Suz and Rooster Ron live in a very “chicken-friendly” country neighborhood. Chickadoo Suz and Farmer Ron have 70 chickens, Senor Martinez has 53 chickens, Mrs Jones has 19 chickens and Miss Margie had 17 but her 2 roosters died. How many chickens live in this clucking neighborhood?

30. The heterozygous blue genetic strain determines when a Blue Cochin chicken will in fact have blue feathers (actually more gray, but in the chicken world it's called blue.)
The literature states that in the breeding Blue Cochins, 25% of the offspring (chickens) will be white, 50% will be blue and 25% will be blue splash (white with blue splashes).
If Farmer Ron's blue cochin hens hatch 12 blue cochin chicks, based on the percentages above, how many will be

   a. Blue?

   b. White?

   c. Blue Splash?

The 1st company, Egg Cartons Direct, sells 500 cartons for $400 with no charge for printing the farm's name on the carton. They also charge 5% shipping fee, but no sales tax.

The 2nd company, Your Design Cartons will print their farm's name and their business logo (graphic) on the cartons for $600 for 1000 cartons plus $250 for customizing, $50 for shipping and 8% sales tax on the cartons but not on the customizing or shipping. 1000 cartons is the minimum order.

To compare the two companies they decide to figure how much it will cost to buy 1000 cartons, since 1000 cartons is the minimum order from company 2, Your Design Cartons.

  a. How much will it cost to buy 1000 cartons from the 1st company, Egg Cartons Direct?

  b. How much will it cost to buy 1000 cartons from the 2nd company, Your Design Cartons?

  Next, they want to determine the cost per individual carton (per unit price) for each company.
  c. How much will one carton cost from Egg Cartons Direct?

  d. How much will one carton cost from Your Design Cartons?

  e. Based on individual carton (per unit) price, which company has the better deal?