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

[joebwe25]

1.Putting Styrofoam in the chicken coop for insulation in the winter. (They wouldn't stop eating it!)

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OH I can't remember.

 

[Nugget]

I'm new with more mistakes to come I'm sure! but here's mine:

1) letting the farmer sell me an adult along with the day old chicks. I realize now she was probably a cull. Lice, mites, roundworms, coccidia, capillaria... A bird with so many problems probably has some underlying issue as well. sigh.

2) Keeping the chicks in my dining room for their first 3 weeks. Overwhelming dust and odor!

3) Not ordering the chicks earlier in the season, when I probably could have gotten the number and breeds I hoped for.

 

[skeeter9]

1. Putting 11 5-week-old chicks into their partially finished run and telling myself "They will be fine until next weekend when I can finish it"

2. Not being able to keep my fingers off of the temp control lever on my incubator during my first hatch.

3. Insisting on candling, then dropping and cracking one of the developing eggs.

 

[pattycake]

1. Henhouse design: I put the pop hole too close to the floor, and now will have to figure something out if I want to do the deep-litter method and not have the litter all fall out.

2. Should have only ordered one or two of each breed -- they're too hard to tell apart.

3. I should have only ordered as many as I wanted -- instead I got the 25 minimum and gave the extras away. I miss them!

Honestly, this site has been so helpful, I headed off a lot of potential mistakes just by reading here.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Thank you Terrie, I really do try.

New Guinea, I just bust out laughing about the meat birds and coconuts...I just kept picturing Scrat with his acorn from Ice Age.

 

[Alleyoops25]

1. 2003 Believing my Dh when he told me that the first tiny little run with a big wooden box in it was only going to temoprary.

2.2005 Believing my DH when he said he was going to pu tup the new coop and run.

3. 2006 believing my DH when he said he was going to pu tup the new chicken run and coop.

4. (yes I know its supposedto only be three)2007 Letting my DH taken down my temporary chickens coop and run, and believing him when he said that he would have the new one up and done before the end of summer. un

Does any one want to trade some chickens for a HUsband?

He might even build you a chicken coop by your 50th wedding anniversary..If your lucky.

 

[Rebel Chicken]

1. Having a dog with a high prey drive. I've lost a countless amount of chickens die this way.

2. Not knowing when to stop with buying more chickens!

3. Not measuring the size of the chicken run before I bought the chicken wire.

 

[Rocket Raley]

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[hinkjc]

1. Not building the first coop big enough
2. Not building the second coop big enough
3. Not building the third coop big enough

Ok, so now I'm up to 9 coops, but I think we're getting it right. Every one is bigger!

Oh, and did I mention that I shouldn't have started this addiction to begin with. Who would've known where it would lead.

Jody

 

[Dawn419]

1) Telling DH that I wanted Chickens to begin with (it was really a rant about his Sun Conure that didn't like me, which I was stuck taking care of).

2) Not having the coop and run finished before the chicks arrived.

3) Not waiting until we had our own place before getting chickens. Fortunately, we have the coolest landlady. It's just going to be a booger moving the birds when we finally do buy our own place.

I spent months (9 to be exact) researching raising day-olds and I'm glad I did as we've had no major problems or mistakes (knocks on wood).

Dawn