If you could give a new chick/en owner advice, what would it be?

[cblakley0531]

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If it is, then I already know that I'm doomed!!! LOL!

 

[NCchicken]

I am newish to raising and hatching out chickens as well and I just had my number one lesson handed to me this weekend and this morning. Some, hopefully not many, of your precious fluffy sweet chicks will die. That is a part of life and nature. Do your best not to beat yourself up over it. Most situations are out of your control. Do what you need to do to grieve and then move on and tend to your chicks.

Second, like many many many pp have said, build your coop twice (at least) as big as you are thinking right now. Trust me, it will be worth it in the end by not having to "piece mill" your first coop to make it bigger and probably having it cost more to build.

Third, again like pp are saying, they are chicken, not anything else. Just a chicken. They do however have fantastic personalities and behaviors. Enjoy that and absorb it in. That's what it's all about, at least for me. When I'm having a crummy day, I walk out to my chicken coop and watch my chickens run and it cracks me up. The way their little legs go so fast and their necks sway back and forth....makes me feel a whole lot better.

Good luck to you in your chicken adventure!

 

[jimpad]

I am sure glad to see all the post on advice on raising chicks,I am a newby on chickens and know verry little about it,but with all the help i get here I am sure I will be ok, sence english is my second language I learn slow but I will make it, I have a coop 4x8 with water and elec. and 6ft tall and 7 chicks hatched on 7 may,they now live in my shop I will move them about 23 june hope every thing goes good.