The farmer has enough for.

Theres 30 cows on a farm and 28 chickens.

So there you go. You re probably now sitting there now feeling really confused so carry on reading to find out exactly why that s the answer. 30 cows and twenty eight chickens. There are 30 cows and 28 chickens how many didn t. 30 cows and 28 chickens. It is confusing because 20 ate sounds like 28.

30 cows and twenty eight chickens. 30 cows 24 cows 6 cows the farmer must get rid. So that means if 20 cows out of 30 ate chickens then 10 cows did not eat. Say eight and ate. There aren t 28 chickens in the field too. 30 cows 28 days 840 cow days or 840 cows for 1 day therefore he can feed 840 cow days 35days 24 cows for 35 days.

And as other have mentioned cows don t eat chickens. There are 20 cows in the field out of 30 that ate not 8 the chickens. There are 30 cows in a field and 28 chickens. So if you do the simple math. There are 30 cows in a field and 28 chickens. Eight and ate sound the same.

In the second riddle which sounds like it makes no logical sense the question when spoken is actually a farmer has 30 cows and 20 ate chickens so if there were 30 and 20 of them ate chickens 10 didn t. It s much better to use carnivores like wolves instead. Imagine someone saying in a field there are 30 wolves and 28 chickens. In a field there are 30 wolves and 28 chickens. The answer is 10.