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A I should have taken pictures, since I'm not sure how to describe this. The front gable of the coop has slats. I wrapped the chicken wire cloth around the front end the gable. Then I nailed a board on each side of the gable to hold the wire in place using the nails and the pressure of the...

Just wanted to update you guys. One of the panels of hardware cloth had come nearly all the way off, so I re attached that. Then I put a board over that as a second way of holding it down. I also put some boards over the gaps under the eaves. That's just a temporary fix, since that's one of our...

Me too, my sister and I joke that she is a camera hog because she has gotten right up in it when I photograph my other chickens. Here's what her back feathers look like.

Thank you! I think the color is technically called silver duckwing but I'm not sure. Edit* I corrected the word sucking to duckwing. Autocorrect struck again I'm afraid haha She could also be silver quail. Since she's a mix she kind of has a mystery pattern.

Oh no! Is she mortified for life now? I've seen possums a lot growing up out in the country but my first intro was seeing one in a live trap when I was that age. They're not particularly scary to me. Skunks are a different story. I don't ever want to get sprayed! Raccoons, I'm also not a fan...

An update, I examined the pile of feathers and there are some blood feathers in it, so the possum did try to take an actual bite of poor nutmeg.

Thank you! She's still growing in her adult feathers. Up until a week ago, her head was solid black. Nutmeg is an Easter Egger-mosaic mix. Both her parents are Easter Egger-Mosaic mixes. The mosaic isn't a recognized breed yet. It has silkie in the ancestry but there are some other breeds...

Ugh last night sucked, but it could have been worse. At about 4:30 am the chickens were freaking out. I went out there, and the first thing I noticed was that I could see all of my birds except for Nutmeg. Then I checked the nest area and there was a mother possum with three babies hanging on...