What's the most important thing you have learned here about yours???

[Iheartmyhens]

For me, it's that hens can have spurs and crow-I'm in a no rooster area and was afraid I'd
have to get rid of some of my pet chickens.

How about you?

 

[SmartyChick]

how to change from happy chicken owner to skilled EMT in .002742 seconds.

 

[canada-goose]

That my birds aren't Araucanas.

 

[gryeyes]

That hens can have combs, too.

Yes, I was that ignorant. I was so freaked that those chicks I bought at the feed store FROM the "Hen" bins, and which the feed store folks told me they would take back if they turned out to be roosters, were growing combs. Oh lord, how could I be SO unlucky as to get all roosters???

Wait, maybe that wasn't the most important thing... it was just the dumbest thing to unlearn.

The most important thing is that I CAN build a pretty darned good coop!

 

[chickenlittle1980]

That chickens can wear cloths! and how lost i was the years before had them!

 

[Tala]

That Buff Orpington x Barred Rock = Black Sexlink.

I just thought I had mutts (and so did the guy selling them) until someone on BYC informed me that they were sexlinked! Boy was I happy!!!

 

[Illia]

That there is a very big difference between hatchery chickens and quality chickens. Honestly that was what led me to such steep, quick learning experience to where I am now.

 

[chicken_china_mom]

That I am not really incubating challenged. I have learned through patience and diligence that I CAN hatch eggs, and I am on my (hopfully)3rd successful hatch this year. The 4th will come shortly afterwards if my geese eggs hatch too! I'm really hoping the 3rd one hatches, it has my BLRW and my Seramas in there!