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That right there is the biggest problem with the half-baked advice on this forum....chickens are ridiculously easy to keep. There isn't much complexity in keeping chickens at all, merely in wading through all the nonsense and finally realizing that anybody can raise a chicken successfully with relative ease if they just use common sense and listen to a few old timers, try it on for size and make adjustments as you go along. Just like any other enterprise involving animals, it's a learn as you go prospect....but the learning curve is so incredibly easy that a child can master it
For someone like me, who has never owned chickens, it's a BIG curve. I am very new to chickens. I researched these forums for months before joining, and continue to read, almost every day, for advice, stories, etc. Some things are easy to work out, such as the "no eggs if you don't have a rooster" theory
, but others aren't. Like worming, should I worm? they don't appear to have worms, but should I do it as a preventative? SOme people do, some people don't, some try the more natural preventatives, etc....
But for my best half baked chicken advice I've received, the no rooster=no eggs theory, of course. My boss still doesn't believe me and mine aren't laying yet to prove it
For someone like me, who has never owned chickens, it's a BIG curve. I am very new to chickens. I researched these forums for months before joining, and continue to read, almost every day, for advice, stories, etc. Some things are easy to work out, such as the "no eggs if you don't have a rooster" theory
But for my best half baked chicken advice I've received, the no rooster=no eggs theory, of course. My boss still doesn't believe me and mine aren't laying yet to prove it