What’s one thing you wish you had known before starting to raise backyard poultry?

[CherishedFowlGuardian]

Mine is that I have chick fever!!!

I want to hear yours!

 

[Sally PB]

How much I would fall in love with my birds.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Chicken math. Gosh I just love it. If i were to just choose 1.
There are so many things that no one told me about owning chickens lol!

 

[Kmaria187]

Just how noisy chickens can be my girls are so noisy!!!! Glad I have good neighbors.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

So much! I have learned so much here on BYC it's unbelievable. I've made modifications to my coop bc of it. I've changed how I feed them. They are no longer my garbage disposers! I've changed how I keep them clean - I had poop trays installed and my coop does not stink (hooray!). I have a compost system now. Just ... so much, and I'm still learning! I guess mostly ... I wish I had known about BYC BEFORE I got my chickens.

 

[CherishedFowlGuardian]

Chicken math.

What is chicken math?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

What is chicken math?

It's like the old Lay's potato chip ad. One is never enough, or something like that. No matter how many chickens you have, you always want need more!

 

[Evadig]

I wish I would have known how much room chickens need. My first four (and good size) hens were kept all winter in one of those Producer’s Pride coops. I really don’t know how they survived.

 

[CherishedFowlGuardian]

I wish I would have known how much room chickens need. My first four (and good size) hens were kept all winter in one of those Producer’s Pride coops. I really don’t know how they survived.

What breed did you have?

 

[notabitail]

How to feed them good food (someone thought homemade feed would be easy). Proper spacing and coop size. I can't believe anyone thought that the piece of poop from TSC was big enough for 7 full size hens. It is now ensconced in the run as their bedroom instead of their only living quarters.