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My feeder pigs have been eating my chickens...3 in a month. I cant afford to keep losing them. Not free ranging my chickens isn't an option because their coop is designed for them to only sleep in, so its very small. So I moved the coop today (very laborious) about 300 feet away from the...

I have 3 roosters for 12 hens, I know too many, but the head rooster is aggressive towards me sometimes and aggressive towards everyone else all the time. I have tried everything from lightly kicking him around the yard to holding him til he gives to holding him by the feet. Im not a fan of most...

All the bodies and heads were still in the coop this morning. My coop/run is buried 6 inches down and nothing dug under. The only openings more than a quarter of an inch are 5 feet up. The roof is mostly covered. What would have done this and not eaten them?

I have one chick unzipping right now on day 20 in the incubator. My other 30 show no signs of piping either internally or externally. Question 1. With such a large number of incubated eggs is it at all strange for only 1 to be so far ahead of the others? 2. If and when this first chick fully...

I'm building a new coop and run for my chickens (larger than the last". The coop itself is going to be 8 long, 4 high 6 deep.....Im wanting to attach the nesting boxes on the outside of the coop (still fenced and covered). My question is, will I get better production if the boxes are within the...

I got my chickens 2 days ago, Barred rock. The first day they seemed to adjust ok and were eating and scratching quite a bit. Today, all day, I havent seen them eating or drinking at all. (Doesn't mean they haven't I just haven't seen it) I put some raw eggplant by their food and it has also...