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Thank you for this! I don’t need a guard that will attack and chase off predators, just a warning system to alert my chickens and myself. I’m doing this because I’ve had a couple hawk attacks that the chickens just barely escaped; since then, I haven’t let them free range anymore for fear that...

I’m looking into getting a single African Goose to guard my 6 chickens. I got the chickens last year, and they are in a small, 5x4 coop with a 6x4 run. I’m wondering how to arrange the goose so that it can still be near them/let out with them without buying or building a whole new coop for them...

Okay, thank you!!!

I suppose it’s not a big deal, she’s always been a bit odd to begin with. Thanks guys!

The non-threatening thing sounds pretty smart, not that I would know if that was the real answer, so thank you.

I have a Gold Star/ Red Sex Link chicken that doesn’t cluck! She’s about 8 months old, and is at the bottom of the pecking order. She doesn’t have any problems doing her normal chicken-y things and isn’t in any sort of pain so I’m not worried about her at all- I’m just curious as to why she...

This is my first backyard flock, so maybe I’m overreacting, but two of my 8 month old girls are doing what appears to be a mini-molt. One is a Black Star/Black Sex Link and the other is a Gold Star/Red Sex Link. The black one is about two or three weeks older than the other one, not that I think...