I regret that I got chickens the first time before we were really ready for them. I grew up on a farm with many, many chickens so I figured it wasn't a big deal but where I grew up we didn't have the kind of predator problem we have here and we lost our entire first flock to predators because we were stupid and didn't bury fence. That was a hard lesson. Otherwise, you couldn't pay me enough money to (okay, that may be an overstatement) to live the rest of my life without chickens....or turkeys....or geese.