8 Beginner Chicken Care Mistakes To Avoid | Backyard Chickens 101 | Egg Laying Hens and Chicks

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  @OakAbode · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @ThesmartestTem · 3 years ago

  IMHO the number 1 chicken mistake that I see people make, and this goes for more than just chickens, is NOT DOING THEIR RESEARCH FIRST! I researched and stalked FB chicken groups for a year before finally getting ours.

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  @32bluewing · 3 years ago

  If you need protection for you’re flock, buy a goose. I have 2 geese that live with my girls and boy. I watch both geese rag doll a Wiesel and a opossum since I got them. The geese do not mess around when it comes to predators

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  @stellaromero4111 · 3 years ago

  I think a big mistake that people make is that they don’t give their chicks enough room, somethings they keep them in a tall but small box and there is barely enough room from the to move around the containers of food and water and the heating source

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  @JoyoftheGardenandHome · 3 years ago

  Get chicks at the proper season. Spring or late summer, so they&apos;ll be grown enough to handle the winter weather...

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• GI

  @ginagutierrez5191 · 3 years ago

  Hey, I would love to see a day in a your life attending to your chickens ❤️, or you showing us individual chickens telling us their breeds and their names and their personalities.❤️ just a thought because I can&apos;t remember when but you told us you&apos;re running out of ideas. 💓

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  @vivianmcdonald6129 · 3 years ago

  I feed my hens chopped celery to strengthen the hardness of their egg shells.

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  @ranrud · 2 years ago

  “Hope we don’t mind the lighting and the sound of rain” two of my favourite things. Warm lighting and a rainy day. ❤

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  @krystlenicole9268 · 3 years ago

  That chick&apos;s eyeliner though..👌

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• KA

  @kathyg0517 · 2 years ago

  I have found the best way to raise baby chicks is to let a broody hen do it.. I have not lost one chick that way. &nbsp;She stays with the other chicks until the first egg hatches then I move her to her own pen after about 2 weeks I let them and mama out for a couple of hours each day to introduce the babies to the flick. Extending the time each week. At about 12 weeks they are all together.

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  @tiffnickk · 3 years ago

  Not having back up brooder supplies. &nbsp;We had a baby who was injured and we needed to separate her in her own little brooder! I was so stressed that we didn&apos;t have a second brooder plate! Thankfully Amazon got it to us the next day!

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  @timothyaldridge5363 · 3 years ago

  Glad to know about overheating chicks

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