What is your "If only someone had told me!" moment?

dstinett said:

Keep in mind some of these posters are children. This is a great place to learn. I've posted questions for my nine year old so she get different opinions. As you know, mothers know nothing. I would be so angry if she got responses like what I've seen on this sitr

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As you know, mothers know nothing.

Ha ha ha, you too?

jonalisa said:

 As you know, mothers know nothing.

Ha ha ha, you too?

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it does me so good to prove myself right. Sometimes it takes a complete stranger to make her listen

rc4u said:

I cant believe that there is no common sense in somes thought about chickens and there care...and what the chickens do and how fast they grow..AND in the house....wow...dander and dust every where....but to each there own...seems some things are different in the east south and west....not like the high central....JMO....

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We all started somewhere. When I started, I thought you had to have a hen and a rooster to get an egg. I've come a long ways since then, but many things are still unbeknownst to me...

dstinett said:

Keep in mind some of these posters are children. This is a great place to learn. I've posted questions for my nine year old so she get different opinions. As you know, mothers know nothing. I would be so angry if she got responses like what I've seen on this sitr

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Thank you for saying that. I'm a teenager and I've had chickens for about 4 years. I started with the chickens for dummies book and when I couldn't find the answer, I would search through the threads on BYC. I just recently made a profile so I could give some of my ever growing knowledge of chickens to someone else because I learned it from someone too. I don't know everything, nobody knows everything. We all started somewhere...

sanchabird said:

We all started somewhere. When I started, I thought you had to have a hen and a rooster to get an egg. I've come a long ways since then, but many things are still unbeknownst to me...
Thank you for saying that. I'm a teenager and I've had chickens for about 4 years. I started with the chickens for dummies book and when I couldn't find the answer, I would search through the threads on BYC. I just recently made a profile so I could give some of my ever growing knowledge of chickens to someone else because I learned it from someone too. I don't know everything, nobody knows everything. We all started somewhere...

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one of my chickens is on page 12, I believe, of your fabulous book . She is a silver spangled spitzhauben. I am so proud!!! Check it out

dstinett said:

one of my chickens is on page 12, I believe, of your fabulous book . She is a silver spangled spitzhauben. I am so proud!!! Check it out

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I will, I would be proud too

It may be page 14. My friend borrowed the book after I gave her chicken keeping disease. Here is the pic.

Oops. Here it is

There is a similar thread on BYC that many "veterans" have posted on!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...sh-you-had-known-before-you-got-your-chickens
Fairly new myself, I have spent many hours on this site!
A few of my "finds" have included bigger brooder with wire mesh lid (yes, mine were flying out at a few weeks too!),
I did use paper towels on top of shavings changed often first few weeks in brooder,
poop boards in your coop with "Sweet PDZ" sand for easy poop cleanup every day!,
giving the chicks wet food early on (which they still love!) ,
Dont spend alot on nest boxes, they prefer to wait in line for the space beneath my rubbermaid stool!
and some good coop ideas!
Like raising your kids, there are opinions and ideas that work for some, not for all!
my 6 babies are MYPETCHICKEN stock, no problems, beautiful and sweet, laying at 20 weeks, all hens! So far so good, still learning!

I wish I had read up on chicken defects and DQs before purchasing birds! Then I would not have bought a Buff Brahma with crooked toes, a d'Uccle with two missing toe nails, or a Nankin with an inverted leader! (From reputable breeders, too...the BB and the d'Uccle were from a JUDGE, who knew we were newbies.)

Well, did they know you were interested in show quality, or did they think you wanted pet quality?