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Is it typical for them to almost quit their layers?

After my red heeler killed one, scolded her & a little correction..she went out w a dog collar w a small chain hanging down to keep her from running. I took her back around the chickens sum. 2 or 3 wks passed & I let her off that. That was 7? yrs ago. Smooth sailing. & the new little beagle...

My dogs may keep them back some but I have seen them all day, every hr. Ruger 22 helps. Dont have to kill them but they don't like the crack of that rifle. Extremely sly

& climb

A deflated egg

Haven't been able to get a picture yet. We've been out of town a few days but I will try and do that. Still nothing going on with her, eats good but no egg

Bird might be 2 or 3. One other the same species lays well. I have only one other, white one that hardly lays. I feed layer pellets all the time. I have fed sum shelled corn, sum times leftover rice. I quit that a month ago. I'll try & get pic. She laid one good egg this wk, finally. But today...

My Rhode island red seems healthy, eats well, acts normal. Quit laying a few weeks ago. Isn't moultung. Has laid a couple of undeveloped eggs in the last couple of weeks, and I can't really even call them eggs. They looked strange and had like a tail on them so to speak. I let them out...

That sounds like symptoms

Will get rabies like a dog.

Raisin a few chicks in the wild

Dogs help, but a fox is so quite & sneaky. I live on 20 heavily wooded acts. This red guy was showing up at noon, 2, 4. My dogs sleep soundly sometimes and not so close to the pin either. I've spotted him coming up the driveway one day about noon, he positioned himself by tree diagonally from...

I have a mature hen a yr or more old. Have moved 2 young hens in & cock.. that will attack anything! The poor old hen I think is beat up by its aggressiveness. Hen looks healthy & is FAT.. eats, but can barely walk. Can't roost etc. Acts normal other than not mobile.