Things you wish you knew starting out?

[Parront]

I wish I would've known what a broody was!

LOL! Broody = Orpingtons I had!

 

[AllenK RGV]

I hatched my own = 75% roosters!

Yeah we are at 80%roos my wife was cussing up a storm yesterday about it until I told her that can be very normal from what I've read and people report from their hatch rates. Just sucks when you thing its like $10 per chick including the shipping and then I'm telling here its really $33 now cause of our luck.

 

[Parront]

Yeah we are at 80%roos my wife was cussing up a storm yesterday about it until I told her that can be very normal from what I've read and people report from their hatch rates. Just sucks when you thing its like $10 per chick including the shipping and then I'm telling here its really $33 now cause of our luck.

Soooo true! You think st run or hatched eggs would be 50-50. NO! Learn to eat your roosters, NOW, or you will be over-run!

 

[Parront]

Read this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-young-is-too-young.1199822/

 

[Parront]

Boiled down -- If it crows, eat it!

 

[RodNTN]

LOL! Broody = Orpingtons I had!

I had a mixed bantam hen, and she would leave for days and show up randomly to eat. Turns out she had a nest of eggs she had laid in the woods, it was a miracle that no predator got her! None of her eggs hatched though, no rooster

 

[AllenK RGV]

Soooo true! You think st run or hatched eggs would be 50-50. NO! Learn to eat your roosters, NOW, or you will be over-run!

I'm read somewhere that raising chicken you better get used to death. Just wasn't ready for that initially until I think of the lady hen's I have. I don't want them making that experience I wouldn't wish it on either of my sisters or my daughter. So my hen's won't be making that experience either. Kinda the same way i think about the coop do I really wanna go in there barefoot or drink that water? It's how I motivate myself to do those chores.

 

[Parront]

I had a mixed bantam hen, and she would leave for days and show up randomly to eat. Turns out she had a nest of eggs she had laid in the woods, it was a miracle that no predator got her! None of her eggs hatched though, no rooster

No rooster, do not know weather to be happy or sad! LOL

 

[AllenK RGV]

I think my post of a few minutes ago ended up on the wrong thread. Oh well!

Well guess what you were more on topic than we currently are so.....Kudos and thanks for the insight!

 

[Parront]

I'm read somewhere that raising chicken you better get used to death. Just wasn't ready for that initially until I think of the lady hen's I have. I don't want them making that experience I wouldn't wish it on either of my sisters or my daughter. So my hen's won't be making that experience either. Kinda the same way i think about the coop do I really wanna go in there barefoot or drink that water? It's how I motivate myself to do those chores.

Barefoot!!!! LOL NEVER!