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Unbelievable! We are a little numb right now. 2 months ago we had an attack on our baby coop, lost 6pullets and my gorgeous EE Roo. They were around 4 months old. We think it was a large cat, bobcats and Carolina panthers have been spotted in the area. We found a large paw print in the loose...

Tonight I am absolutely heartbroken! When I went out to collect eggs this morning I discovered feathers all over my yard and I first thought it was molting gone crazy. Then as I came up to the baby coop I saw a horrible sight! Apparently we had a predator last night, it dug under the fence...

Well it's finally happened! After four years of raising spring chicks we finally have a roo! It's one of my 10 week old EE's. We've been hearing suspicious noises coming from the baby coop for a couple of weeks, and I had finally narrowed it down to two suspects. Well I finally saw him crowing...

Chicken math is taken over! In February I planned on getting a batch of 6 babies and left the feed store with 11. In my defense the store owner found out I was not a new chicken owner so she sent me home with 4 babies that had gotten cold during shipping and need some TLC, 2 of those didn't make...

This is the time I always wonder if I'm seeing things. My Welsummer babies are 3 weeks old and I'm amazed at how big they've gotten. Last night I was hanging out in their coop just observing and talking to them, letting them get used to me and my voice. I noticed that one Welsummer was lighter...

That didn't take long! I put the baby ladder in the baby coop and checked on them 2 hours later and a Wellsummer had figured out how to perch on the top! Another milestone today, I put up the temporary wall in the run. It limits their access from the whole run to a small 5 foot section. It took...

Dang racoon! In the last 2 weeks we've lost 4 of our 3month old babies. Something was getting into the baby growout coop. We finally figured out it had to be a racoon. This was our original coop, it started small and we added on to it the first year as the chicks grewup. After the first year we...

Finally had a nice day outside when I was home all day so I could let the babies out into their run. They were very hesitant to come out so I had to pick them up and set them out! One Easter Egger kept running back up my arm everytime I tried to set her down, but I finally got her to stay on the...

O.k. I have taken some pictures of this weeks egg crate. Beautiful color variations! But I still have no idea who layed which egg. I'm giving my 1 year old red comets credit for the largest reddish brown eggs because those look like what they've been laying all year. I'm assuming the darkest...

It's been cloudy and rainy for almost 2 weeks, and now we're going to get an estimated 12 inches of rain in the next two days! My girls are not happy! Madder than a wet hen x13! Hey Dad! Can you turn off the water! Mom! I'm wet and not happy! (Mom tells them to hush and get back in the coop...

Well, today was the day! We moved the babies into the big coop and relocated the leghorns to the baby coop. It went relatively smoothly. Relatively......Out of 9 young ones only one gave me problems about being caught. A Buff who apparently was very attached to her little coop! But I finally...

We had to do some coop alterations today so I decided to let the babies out for their first official legal free range. (we try not to talk about when they escaped that one time) We had to lure them out! Apparently they still remember how mad Dad got when they escaped! Once they were out and...

Well, raising this years crop of babies has been fun. But now they are definetly grownup, the Brahma and two Buff Orps are bigger than my 1 year old red comets and definetly bigger than the leghorns! By my calendar they should be ready to start laying in about two weeks! Where did the time go...

Well our resident hawk is back! My hubby went out this evening to check waterers and collect eggs. He started in the baby coop. The youngsters were out in their run enjoying the cloudy cooler weather and promptly started harrassing him for treats! After spending some time with them he grabbed...

O.k. now I'm curious. After spend some time catching up on BYC now I'm wondering if one of my Easter Eggers is a roo! Reading on some other threads about coloring of EE's. My 2 EE's are gorgeous but completely different in coloring. One is almost completely black with reddish brown "spots". The...

Spent some time hanging out in the baby chick coop, first thing is they've gotten big! They're not babies anymore! But one of the first things to get my attention was a flash of red in the flock. One of my Silvers is turning red around the head, none of the other chicks are turning that color. A...

The last two weeks have been crazy busy, between work and rainstorms I haven't had alot of time to hangout with my girls. My hubby has been taking care of feeding and watering and he mentioned they were growing. WOW he wasn't kidding! Mom brought mealworms!!!!!Let the feeding frenzy begin...

Cleaned off the pictures from my phone, got some cute pictures! And of course they have stories! Sitting in the little coop run, introduced them to the silver kitchen scrap bowl. Let them try the strawberry tops and a couple of lettuce leaves and they finally discovered the mealworms I've been...

Broody Mama has gone absolutely loco! We took our small coop and run and divided it in half (making it a duplex) Broody and her six adopted chicks in one side and the older chicks in the other. Broody Mama would go after the older chicks and the dividing wall (temporary) seemed to calm...

OMG! Broody Mama is a hot mess! She is a good mama , she gets bonus points for that! But, somehow she has managed to hoard some leghorn eggs! Hubby has been checking on her for the last couple of days because my work schedule was a little crazy. Broody Mama won't let him near her nest so he...