what is your "looking back on it" moments

[mapel walnut]

I want to hear everyone's looking back on it moments the ones were you cant understand how this happened until you it studently hits you for example i have a 24 week old bird who always runs up to me and nips at my fingers not hard but like just to tell me that its there and i couldn't figure it out until it hit me that when it was a two week old chick i would visit it and its 28 siblings and read my evening chapter of my book late at night and i would put my hand in to the cage and one bird would almost suck on my finger and then i would feed them one last time and went to bed so my fault i guess any way looking fowards to hearing all of yours

 

[Callender Girl]

My "moment" is when I traveled to a farm during the first big outbreak of avian flu, when 4-H'ers couldn't show their chickens at county fairs. I went with the intention of bringing home THREE point-of lay hens.

I came home with FOUR. It was a sign of things to come.

Currently, I have 23, which is down a bit from my all-time high. And, over the years I've added runner ducks and American Buff geese. I'm just a girl who can't say no to a pretty avian face.

 

[AnneGirlGG]

Mine was underestimating how quickly chicks grow. We were in the middle of our coop build with chicks ordered for late September. The bantam bin won me over, though, and we brought home our first ever 4 babies in late July. I had read so many books and based on the "drop the temp by 5 degrees every week" and other textbook talk/Google, I thought I had 7 or 8 weeks until they needed to go outside full time.

No. Just no. Those babies started growing, and we were rushing to get that coop and run finished. We did, but they still lived in our guest room for around 7 weeks! Thankfully, bantams stay small, lol.

 

[mapel walnut]

My "moment" is when I traveled to a farm during the first big outbreak of avian flu, when 4-H'ers couldn't show their chickens at county fairs. I went with the intention of bringing home THREE point-of lay hens.

I came home with FOUR. It was a sign of things to come.

Currently, I have 23, which is down a bit from my all-time high. And, over the years I've added runner ducks and American Buff geese. I'm just a girl who can't say no to a pretty avian face.

you have been caught by chicken math and you will never escape