Feeling discouraged-words of wisdom?

[Mo'sMenagerie]

I've been raising chickens for a little over a year, and I feel I've had to learn some very hard lessons--maybe the most surprising being that less is more with feeding treats and scratch. Also that occasionally your sweet birds just die without any warning. That no matter how clean you keep things using sand, poop boards, Grandpa's Feeders, and feeding only the best organic FF, your birds can mitesstill get.

I LOVE my chickens. I love spending time with them and they can bring me so much joy. But the sadness that has come along with the joy over this past year has been defeating to say the least.

I'm reaching out humbly to my BYC community for some inspirational words to help me cheer up and not lose sight of the joy. Anyone? Thank you!

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Remember that this is a part of life. You will make many mistakes raising birds but everyone has their own way of raising them that fits with them. Loosing a bird can be tough. I recently found parts of my young guinea keet that had escaped the run. I was upset that it didn’t get to live it’s life. Then I had the same realization that I have every time one of my birds die; it happens. All you can do is try hard the next time.

 

[Mo'sMenagerie]

Beautiful and kind words. Thank you. I'm sorry for your loss. We will keep learning and getting better won't we... It can just be so difficult to feel responsible for the life of an innocent.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Beautiful and kind words. Thank you. I'm sorry for your loss. We will keep learning and getting better won't we... It can just be so difficult to feel responsible for the life of an innocent.

The I get angry if one of my chickens die because of profit loss instead on other issues. My other birds are pets.

 

[CLovesDucks]

I've been raising chickens for a little over a year, and I feel I've had to learn some very hard lessons--maybe the most surprising being that less is more with feeding treats and scratch. Also that occasionally your sweet birds just die without any warning. That no matter how clean you keep things using sand, poop boards, Grandpa's Feeders, and feeding only the best organic FF, your birds can mitesstill get.

I LOVE my chickens. I love spending time with them and they can bring me so much joy. But the sadness that has come along with the joy over this past year has been defeating to say the least.

I'm reaching out humbly to my BYC community for some inspirational words to help me cheer up and not lose sight of the joy. Anyone? Thank you!

I love other bird lovers. Your chickens clearly have a great momma. I’m so sorry for your loss(es) and I hope you find comfort in the fact that you gave them a wonderful life. That’s not something everyone can do because it requires a special kind of love. I’ll leave you with a quote and know that your BYC family is thinking of you!

“The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hilary Stanton Zunin

 

[Mo'sMenagerie]

I love other bird lovers. Your chickens clearly have a great momma. I’m so sorry for your loss(es) and I hope you find comfort in the fact that you gave them a wonderful life. That’s not something everyone can do because it requires a special kind of love. I’ll leave you with a quote and know that your BYC family is thinking of you!

“The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hilary Stanton Zunin

Thank you. These words are inspiring and do so give me hope. I love my birds so incredibly much.

 

[CLovesDucks]

Thank you. These words are inspiring and do so give me hope. I love my birds so incredibly much.

 

[Mo'sMenagerie]

 

[nchls school]

"Feeling discouraged"-That's me. I've been raising birds for 41 years. I still make many mistakes. The biggest mistake lately was going to a poultry auction... I've lost many birds to diseases that I never had before. Three years of fighting the problem and my birds are now free of disease....but so many lost.

Now it's me fighting disease. At 65 I recently had a stroke and pneumonia. A week in the hospital and I'm now home. A home in the country-no close neighbor-no car-no phone-no money and often alone. The possibility of another stroke or pneumonia is likely. Now what?

 

[BantyChooks]

Don't know if what I can say will help much, as I see things a bit different from most folks. I'll post it anyway.

There is always more. There's always that one chick that will hatch that is the product of my long hours selecting breeding stock to be better, stronger, healthier, prettier. There are enough scientific studies on their anatomy and behavioural quirks to keep me in reading material for decades more. There are always more coops I can build, more breeds I can try, more setups I can experiment with. The potential excites me; it is what I got into poultry for and why I will keep going with them until it is no longer possible. Setbacks are just that—a set backwards. Not an ending.