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Crowing
It can be inspirational seeing what others have achieved, but it can also be demoralising when you feel like you are "hopeless". I admire your work there, rob tof, but personally I have no idea how to pitch a roof, and there's no way I could achieve that by myself, I'd need to hire a "guy". The roof of my big girls' run consists of wire "supports" with wire mesh over the top. That's the most I could ever do, and I could only do it with somebody else here because I get vertigo when I go on a ladder and there's a chance I could fall off. I can watch some "guy" on youtube going "oh you just do this and this and this" and I think "oh sure, then, when you mess it up, you do this and this and this again". Even just having someone to bounce ideas off can help alleviate the pressure.
OP if you really feel you've bitten off more than you can chew, look for help wherever you can get it. Otherwise, doing a little at a time will get it done. If you have to get something temporary and crappy to house your birds to take the pressure off, do that. I think my birds have really good homes now, but it took quite a while to get where they are now. They started with a series of small coops, open yards of star pickets and wire mesh, they've moved here, there and everywhere, been in temporary runs, yada yada. Now they've got huge houses and "proper" runs, but it took a lot of time (and a fair bit of money) to get there.
Everyone's saying it and it is absolutely essential not to be too hard on yourself. I can tell you that not one of my chooks has cared where they've been staying. They were just as cheerful and "chook-y" when they were sleeping in the tiny pre-fab as they are now.
Hang in there.
OP if you really feel you've bitten off more than you can chew, look for help wherever you can get it. Otherwise, doing a little at a time will get it done. If you have to get something temporary and crappy to house your birds to take the pressure off, do that. I think my birds have really good homes now, but it took quite a while to get where they are now. They started with a series of small coops, open yards of star pickets and wire mesh, they've moved here, there and everywhere, been in temporary runs, yada yada. Now they've got huge houses and "proper" runs, but it took a lot of time (and a fair bit of money) to get there.
Everyone's saying it and it is absolutely essential not to be too hard on yourself. I can tell you that not one of my chooks has cared where they've been staying. They were just as cheerful and "chook-y" when they were sleeping in the tiny pre-fab as they are now.
Hang in there.
