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I've got a new fence ordered and should be here Monday. I thought about that too and just ordered a new one of different quality and 6 inches higher. I wondered if maybe some of the wires braided through the strands broke. I know I had the electric rope for my cows and that is what happened to...

I'm sorry---I actually did not mean dogs kill for "fun". Just that they kill like said above---in a frenzy---not just for food unless it's a stray.

Thank you or the replies. I haven't said anything to the neighbors who live a quarter mile away as I am not sure it was a dog and if it was if it was theirs. Both my neighbor and I have caught their dog carrying off chickens a year or so ago but I bought an electric netting to put around the...

Thank you everyone for the ideas and information. I thought perhaps it was because I moved her or perhaps the tank too small----it's probably five foot long and two and half feet wide. It's a nice size and it's what I put all my nursery chicks I ordered in. I can lay a piece of netted wire...

I've been missing a chicken every now and then but last week between 8 am and 4 pm something made a visit and took 10 of my chickens. There was a "paw" print or two that was plain enough to see it was either a coyote or a dog. My question is I know dogs will just kill chickens for the fun of...

I have an Easter Egger hen that went missing for a month---I figured coyotes had gotten her but she was in my haybarn hiding out. She hatched 16 chicks. Found her the day they had started to hatch out. I moved her to an old empty water tank with lots of hay, feed and water. About ten days...

That is funny! Maybe it is the one that left my place in late May! I had three males and two females that I inherited from a friend who passed away in April. The lone male took off and went about a half mile East of my farm to the Highway--hung around there for two or three days and then...

If you purchase a couple peahens---do you have a pen for them? I am sure if you kept the girls penned up---Mr. would be stay close--then when the girls are accustomed to the their new home and are able to be released--as long as you keep feeding them in the pen they will go back in and all you...

I would give him at least three or four months---nerves take a while to heal sometimes. As long as he continues to eat and do okay otherwise---I would grant him some extra time.

Quote: Hi Ivywoods! I finally made it back here to BackYard Chickens!!!! My sis was over for the weekend and we watched the funnel from our basement doorway ---- we were on the south side of it as it came through ---never got low enough to be serious---but anything that looks like a funnel...

I am wanting to buy a set of stacked cages to keep my breeding roosters in while not with the hens. Am in northeast Kansas.

I used to have a singing canary but ended up giving it away on Craigs list due to a divorce and I couldnt take the bird with me. Now I am settled once again and am looking for canaries and/or some finches to "hobby" with. Thanks.

Okay--I have 7 Buckeye hens and 3 French Black Copper Marans hens--what I would like to do is give each hen a color coded band of some sort---as I want to name the hens individually---has anyone got a good idea on what to use? I've looked at poultry bands but you have to buy like 50 to 100 of...

Yes, I have a heat lamp with a temperature and humidity meters. Temp is always betweeon 87 and 92. I have found all the dead birds under the heat lamp. I've raised chicks before but never hatched my own. I don't think anything is wrong with them physicially as they are a week old by now---so...

I purchased some Buckeyes from a hatchery over a year ago. I just hatched a few of the eggs this past week or so. I have two questions--the first one---I notice the chicks are putting on wing feathers BUT they are NOT the red color as the hens. All the chicks have a dark band with lighter...