What mistakes have you made with your flock?

[Valhalla Acres]

Hello everyone! I was just wondering what are some mistakes you have made with your flock or coop design? And how did this affect your future chicken raising tactics?

One of my many mistakes:
Our very first coop has the nesting box hanging off the coop. We used metal roofing material to cover it so the wood wouldn't rot. Well only after we made it, we found out we could only open it a couple of inches. Now we have to go in the coop to collect the eggs. This is not a very big inconvenience since I can reach through the front door into the nesting boxes. Now we build coops with the nesting boxes on the inside wall.

Thank you and have a great day/night wherever you are!

 

[Spartan22]

My biggest mistake is not making the coop as big as my house, I had to build a second one, with getting hooked on incubating our own eggs every spring plus refreshing the gene lines every few years.

I just hatched 24 chicks few days ago and there’s 10 three week olds that are heading out to the main run.
Next time I’ll make the coop 40’x40’ and the run with that same width and length. NOT! I will get kick out of my house.