My Bagurks
Songster
I’m sure there are other threads like this but I wanted to see if I could get a good one going.
Lessons Learned.
What have you done so wrong that you wish you could go back in time and slap yourself in the face for thinking it was a good idea?
I’ll star with two.
1. Bird netting for the roof of my run. It was cheap and it will keep predators out, I thought to myself. What can go wrong I thought. Raccoons tearing it, branches falling and ripping it up, having to triple layer it just to have some confidence in it. No thank you. Chicken wire and zip ties. Little more effort and cost but WAY worth it.
2. Building a 20x40 run with 8ft walls and NO center supports. It’ll be fiiiiiiine. Yeah until the walls buckled and caved in. Not even from a storm. Scared the chickens half to death and I had to take a day off work so I can bury new posts and build trusses under a mess of chicken wire.
Tell me your horror stories. We’ve all screwed up in one way or another along the way. We may even be in the planning stages or in the middle of a new screw up. But I’m sure we can all learn from each other’s mistakes. Thanks in advance. I hope this makes it to the “active threads” section.
Lessons Learned.
What have you done so wrong that you wish you could go back in time and slap yourself in the face for thinking it was a good idea?
I’ll star with two.
1. Bird netting for the roof of my run. It was cheap and it will keep predators out, I thought to myself. What can go wrong I thought. Raccoons tearing it, branches falling and ripping it up, having to triple layer it just to have some confidence in it. No thank you. Chicken wire and zip ties. Little more effort and cost but WAY worth it.
2. Building a 20x40 run with 8ft walls and NO center supports. It’ll be fiiiiiiine. Yeah until the walls buckled and caved in. Not even from a storm. Scared the chickens half to death and I had to take a day off work so I can bury new posts and build trusses under a mess of chicken wire.
Tell me your horror stories. We’ve all screwed up in one way or another along the way. We may even be in the planning stages or in the middle of a new screw up. But I’m sure we can all learn from each other’s mistakes. Thanks in advance. I hope this makes it to the “active threads” section.