Official BYC Poll: What Is Your Least Favorite Thing About Keeping Chickens?

[Hensintexas]

Keeping chickens as pets can be a rewarding experience, plus it ensures a regular supply of fresh eggs, keep pests under control and fertilize the garden. However, raising chickens also requires some effort from yourself. So we would like to find out: What is your least favorite thing about keeping chickens?

Place your vote above, and please elaborate in a reply below if you chose "Other".

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Further Reading:

• How To Raise Chickens
• Common Mistakes Poultry Keepers Make (And How to Fix Them)
• Chicken FAQs - The Frequently Asked Questions Of Raising Chickens

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Love everything except tracking poop into the house when I’m not paying attention !

 

[BoogieWight]

Keeping them away from the fruits/vegetables that I want to eat and then keeping the fruits and vegetables that I wanted to eat off of the walkway into my house. That pear just hanging there like a monster on that low hanging limb, that passionfruit just a few days from dropping of the vine, those tomatoes that you know are gonna be red tomorrow. They are all just unwilling participants in the flocks plot to show you that while they may not have run of the house, everything the light touches is theirs to on.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Apart from cleaning out poopy bedding, my least favorite thing is probably not being able to get more

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

Trying to keep the run dry. I picked what I thought was the highest spot in the side yard and I STILL have mud problems when it rains. Sand has not helped. I am considering pavers for the area around the coop.



Rusty

 

[BeccaRecca13]

Finding out my favorite chick is a cockerel

SAME…. Her name was Karen and she was the best light brahma girl there was, then she went through a huge change and out came Kevin. A bossy little turd head that is three times the size! Still a good guy… hoping his temperament is good, because if not, off to freezer camp!

 

[Murdy]

The mess of poop all over my backyard, for sure!

Oh... I'm picking 2...trying to keep them out of my garden! Haha

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I voted for dealing with illness, but one option that I may have chosen is managing roosters not the mean ones. The ones that turned out nice, but you can’t keep them because there are too many. I love hatching babies. I had to dispatch five very sweet Roos because of this year’s hatch. Also having a member of my main flock pass away I’ve felt so much heartbreak over my chickens. My favorite girl has survived so much. She loves sitting in my lap. She will be six this spring. I just try to cherish her as much as I can.

 

[SilkySilkie]

I started cheating and getting day old pullets for the broodies. Every now and again there's the oops cockerels- but much better than finding 6 of 8 are boys! One day I'll get back to purposeful breeding/hatching again ... but for now it's nice when by week 3 nobody pops a huge comb and grows monster feet/legs.

i don't want to take any chances with broody rejecting the chicks I don't have an incubator

 

[City Farmer Jim]

We free range our flock and the thing we dislike most is that they poop EVERYWHERE in the carport on the deck....just EVERYWHERE...nothing is sacred to them

 

[Huntergatherr]

Other: they destroy my gardens, plants, potted plants, and constantly poop on the decks porch and sidewalks....
This would be a solvable problem if I kept my birds in a run, but I just don't see that as nice as allowing my birds to free range.