Posts by kmpaulick

Please help!!  My sweetest, favorite Buff Orp (Mable) was found tonight, when we noticed we were one short as the girls headed to their house.  Eventually found her in the woods.  Some feathers around but not a bunch,...

Our coop door automatically opens from 10:30 -4pm (this time of year) and the temps get down to 30 below with wild (70mph winds).  The girls want to go outside no matter how cold or windy it is --UNTIL there is more than a couple...

blueberry pancakes :)

Hi There! We're in AK too (valley) and we got our chicks from a woman in the Butte.  Check out CL, in the farm & garden section, people are regularly selling pullets this time of year (chicks usually in the spring)....

Hi There,    I'm new to chickens too and living in AK (the valley).  I've been worrying over the ventilation-draft issue as well.  The coop we build is small and heavily insulated (2" thick foamboard lined with...

After being fairly certain it was a fox, tonight I saw the culprit try to take another hen --right in front of me--  It was a great horned owl!  Even though it was trying to tear my poor little BO apart, it was a pretty...

An update!  Went out to feed the remaining girls in their coop this morning and....one of the "piles of feathers" came shuffling out of the woods!!!  She was half-bald and half-dead, but after spending the night in the woods...

Eagles are definitely a possibility.  I often see them eating whatever they've killed on the ground (figured I'd see a mess if it was an eagle), but it's certainly possible that they were picked up and brought back to a nest or...

We have lynx, which are pretty similar to a bobcat.  I haven't seen them, or rather sign of them.      When I found the first pile of feathers (outside of the garden), I too thought something must have came out...

Thanks for responding!  We do have fox in the area, but I've never heard of one that could jump a solid 7 foot fence.  They usually dig underneath right?  I checked the perimeter of the fence and didn't see sign of any...