What was your luckiest moment as a chicken keeper?

[HollowOfWisps]

My luckiest moment was when my husband didn't know we were getting chickens until he came home from work and there was a brooder full of chickens. I wasn't sure how he was going to respond, but the last thing I expected was him buying this sign and hanging it on my coop/pen

 

[PippinTheChicken]

a few weeks ago I was preparing my chickens some leftovers and I added some leftover guacamole to it. Then I had a strange feeling that I needed to make sure it was safe for them to eat. I followed my gut and googled it. This is what I read:
"Never give chickens avocado or guacamole scraps because they contain the persin toxin which causes the heart to dysfunction and the bird to die within 48 hours. This isn't just a chicken thing either, so keep your avocados away from other birds, and even some mammals."
I was so shocked, I immediately threw away all of the food I prepared them, I can't imagine what would've happened if I hadn't trusted my gut.

 

[Normajeaner]

Sometimes we have those moments when we're so lucky, we jump with joy!
What was your luckiest moment (to do with chickens) as a chicken keeper?
Did you get all pullets at TSC? Did you have a 100% hatch rate?
I wanna hear them!

Our luckiest was coming unto the coop and finding mamma hen had once again knocked a couple of hatchlings out if the nest. Usually found them frozen dead. This one time though, we found two not quite gone and hubby scooped them up and cupped them in his hands to blow warm breath in them. Soon as they flinched in their own, I snatched them and shoved them down my shirt between my breasts, and ran in the house to begin setting up a chicky play pen. Box hot water bottle and blanket scraps did the trick. For the next few weeks while they could not escape on their own, they lived like that.

I would take them out and let them run in the living room chasing me as I called chicky chicky and would drop little bits of bread for them. So cute they were.
They lived a good life and were named frosty and freely. Lol male and female.

 

[chickenmomandmygirls]

Learning from you all...and...."how to remove bumblefoot" issue on utube. My Hailey leaned her head into my shoulder was the sweetest & then acted like a "supergirl" the day after I got the (1 inch) briar out

 

[WthrLady]

Luckiest? I happened to get up and do chores extra early and interrupted a mink halfway through his murder spree in the henhouse. I only lost 14 of my layers, half my flock, instead of all of them. He killed the best layers too, leaving me the ones that were young and fast enough to get away from him, and the old non-layers, who were smart enough to go high and be still and quiet. Had I been half an hour later.....no chance for any of them.

 

[787junglist]

I went to the coop this morning at 7am to put the feeders and noticed last night I left the coop door completely open and none of the birds got out...

 

[WthrLady]

I'd be MORE worried about something getting in. You DID get lucky.

 

[Earthdale]

Mine is getting an 80% hatch rate the first time hatching ducks, they came three days which is weird.

 

[StepfordCuckoos]

I ordered a dozen eggs to hatch and sadly only three of them ended up doing so. Two roosters and one hen BUT the hen turned out to be this BEAUTIFUL satin frizzled buff silkie I named Goldilocks. The other two hatchlings are gorgeous as well but there's something special about her. Here she is as a chick!