What has you feeling overwhelmed?

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It's very easy to get too many animals and then get swamped with chores we can't complete until things are a mess and we're abusing ourselves and our animals.
But it doesn't just happen with having animals. When anything in life gets to be overwhelming, I think of a broody hen as an example: She's happy, confident, and successful with a small clutch of eggs to cover. Add 10 more and she would have to constantly move from one side to the other to keep them warm. Add 20 more, and she's a nervous wreck, failing at her work. Add 100 eggs and she's completely defeated and just leaves the nest to rot.
Anytime we add more in our life than we can handle, we're trapped, we fail, we're miserable, we feel guilty stress. It's so gradual and easy to do, and most of us have at some time overloaded ourselves with something.
Cull, then build or repair clean, light, airy coops and predator-proof fences. If you decide you really have time and energy for chickens, start again with 4-5 chicks and learn from past mistakes how not to let things get out of control.
 
Troll or hand out maybe. I don't think I would hang my dirty laundry out in public .... but then, maybe I have a couple of times .... I don't remember ...
 
Banana01 said:
I am getting totally overwhelmed every day. I have too many chickens and animals that I have to care for and has become an all day chore. When I do get to leave the house to buy them food and medicine, I can only be gone half a day, because I have to give water to the ones that can't care for themselves.

I know I cannot sustain what I am doing. When I put their food out in the morning, other animals come and eat it too. My fence has holes I cannot fix. My hens don't have enough cool and dry places to lay eggs. I have too many chickens, but still have 20 more eggs coming due because I didn't take away the broody hens eggs. One of my main places where hens were supposed to lay and raise babies got over ridden by mites. I have to constanly treat my flock for worms. Every day I wonder what my life would be like if I cut down my flock size by half, I could manage better. I have to manually put a dozen chickens to roost at night because they can't climb. When it rains the roof leaks in my coop. There is always something that needs done because my flock is continually outgrowing my house and spaces. Despite having very little building materials and cool, dry spaces, we are here. But even though there is places for them to go during the day, some of the ones that need me most are starting to suffer because I just don't have the time anymore. I culled two sick chicks recently, and the feeling was huge relief because it was quick and painless. I am thinking of culling more the ones that I have to.

I would love to hear other peoples frustrations with what is causing frustration with your animals, and better share how you are dealing with it.
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Could you try to rehome most or all of your flock, then fix the coop roof and the mites, and maybe get more chickens later?
 
BantammChick said:
Could you try to rehome most or all of your flock, then fix the coop roof and the mites, and maybe get more chickens later?
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If you decide this is your plan, I would set a realistic number of birds that you can take care of. Set that number rather small and give yourself a break before you begin your new project.
I, personally would not include a rooster, unless you really need one for predators. :hugs
 
Davismccaughley said:
I am really paniked because I forgot to turn my egg and it is I a.homemade incubator and is properly stuck to side won't move got me reallyworried I am very worried scared and generally stressed this is my first chick and I have no clue what it is and I am really stressed please help I need to kno weather its dead or alive so I can stop rampung up the electric bill with the desk lamp that's on the side of the incubator
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/995858536322622181/
this is the link the aforementioned robert
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This does NOT look good.
 

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