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We had a couple of bad experiences in the past with the chicken wire. Raccoons would reach in and grab our chicken's heads through the holes and try to pull them through. It was gruesome. We had two beheaded chickens before we decided to make a change. However, I think that a 1/4 inch...

Think of foxes as more like cats. They are slim, nimble, and can climb very well.

Your problem sounds similar to what ours was. We had a pair of foxes taking our chickens. Sometimes they left feathers, sometimes not. We didn't realize it was a fox until we saw it. One morning, I saw the fox from the window in the attic. Ran through the flock, grabbed a chicken and...

I've heard it said that forests are a chicken's natural habitat, but then again, people say a lot of things. I've observed wild chickens in the forests of Hawaii, and they do just fine. Yours will enjoy scratching in the leaf litter and digging for worms and grubs. If you make the run big...

I have two coops: a large, walk-in coop for the adult chickens and a smaller, transitional coop for younger chooks/separating a sick member from the rest of the flock. I am in the process of updating the coops and doing some minor repairs to both of them. Should I invest time in painting...

We are having a similar problem with our free ranging chickens, except our predator is a family of foxes. We had 6 roosters guarding our hens, but we are down to just one. Our temporary solution is to keep the dog nearby as a chicken guard dog, but sometimes the foxes will sneak by. We are...

Only place the babies under broody hens! Even then, some mama chickens do not want to be mamas and will kill the chicks. Brand new baby chicks will prefer to have temperatures just under 100* F. Whether that is supplied by a mama hen or in a separate brooder cage with a heat lamp is up to...