We went to dinner last night and got home slightly after dark. Wife went out to lock up the coop and starts screaming. There was a 50 to 60 lb raccoon in the coop. One Rhode Island Red Dead. We got there just in the nick of time, as he was attacking our leghorn. He will be ok, just a little...
We just bought our first chickens recently, we love them BUT one of our ladies had a shank (ankle area above foot) injury due to a band the farm had on it to identify her age. They took it off but it has really cause her whole foot and ankle to swell and the shank/ankle and scale area to growing...