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Thanks, we may try the jotwire if the lights dont work.

I am sure now it was a racoon...the vlump of feathers came from my Ancona hen...just noticed a bald patch that is growing back in...only thing that could have reached in and grabbed her would be racoon...going to reingorce the lower areas so little grabby hands can't reach in if they get scared...

The pen is covered with plastic chicken fencing, then covered in palm frongs...today I added bamboo fencing to the top with the palm frongs on top to create more shade. I also tied palm frongs around where they roost to create even more privacy then the bamboo fencing provided. I did discover...

Just a few more shook out but only a few. They seem happy and are definitely active...last night they did try to roost on the fence under the out door motion detector light..was rather funny/odd My thought, let me know if it is possible...having grown up with chickens I know the difference...

They get free feeding of organic lay crumble, free range of the yard all day, kitchen scraps(fruit, vegetable, some meat), oatmeal w/plain yogurt, dried mealworms, dried grubs, dried shrimp, and various seeds occassionally.

Feathers under the roost when I went out Feathers by the gate and feeder Feathers inside coop where I put them until daylight...they kept shaking out feathers The 2 hens the feathers came from The cackle they made was an alarming one but not the one of "I'm being killed" and when I got...

I know it was not owl, hawk, coyote or other large predator because they cant get in...could it be a stress response or frantic flapping around in the dark? I am going back to double penning them, in the coop that is in the enclosed pen.

I'm in California...when they molt do they just suddenly start dropping feathers? When I had chickens as a kid I thought it was iver a little time. Mine are 6-7 months.

About 5:30 am I heard my hens fussing...not frantic cackles but definitely upset. They roost in a covered 6X12x6 chain link pen. When I went out I saw quite a number of feathers in and out of the pen and hens were all by the gate...I let them out and when one ruffled her feathers on my porch she...