List Your Top 3 Mistakes............

[sunnychooks]

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Does my 1a and 1b qualify for me for further education?? No matter...

I just thought of #4. Being suckered in by McMurrays promise of a free rare breed chick that would "amaze and delight" me. He did until he started to crow!!!

 

[Wooden_Pony]

I just thought of #4. Being suckered in by McMurrays promise of a free rare breed chick that would "amaze and delight" me. He did until he started to crow!!!

glad I did not get suckered!!

 

[jackiedon]

1. Not finding you guys first
2. Thinking Murray McMurray was the only way to get hatching eggs
3. Glad I didn't know a lot about incubation in the beginning because I started out with 80 eggs yikes


jackie

 

[Frozen Feathers]

1. Thinking that chickens are perfectly safe roosting in trees.

2. Thinking that if I put the heat lamp close enough to the waterer that water won't freeze...well it didn't but my $40 waterer melted and I'm lucky I still have a coop.

3. Leaving the coop door open....overnight.

 

[lurky]

Ahhhh......leaving the door open. This is one i struggled with all summer. I felt bad when they were panting and did not dare. I think this is a good post. If we can learn from it, its great. I'm now glad i shut the door

 

[rosyposyosy]

1. straight run.
2. thinking chickens slept in nesting boxes.
3. not checking the city ordinance laws, even though i purchased the chicks in town (3 blocks from my house!)

 

[bantymum]

I havent made a mistake!!!!
no im joking, leaving the door open one fateful spring night.

 

[Rafter 7 Paint Horses]

1. Not building EVERY pen tall enough to walk into.

2. Not ordering more chicks.

3. Not hatching more chicks.


Jean

 

[DoctorGoose]

1. Straight Run

2. Chicks when we weren't ready for them with a brooder.

3. Not buying a gun, trap, and bait sooner.

4. Letting certain people talk me out of getting more and more and more chickens...

(BTW--we've never *knock on wood and crosses fingers* had a problem with predators getting in the coop--it's just when the chickens are outside, its the problem. We've got rabbit wire all over, a regular roof, and it's on concrete. Not pretty, but functional.)

 

[boomerge]

I am chicken mistake free as I don't have any,and hope to stay that way because of byc some day I'll have some.