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So I've now read a fair amount of things here to help deter hawks. The hawk(s) seem to be getting more aggressive. Great info and help here though! This evening the hawk swooped ME. I came outside expecting to scare him off again because my hens were yelling, but I couldn't find him. Then I...

Hello, I was wondering if someone could help figure out what animal may have done this. So this morning I go out to my chicken coop like normal but I notice a hole in the ground. They way my coop is built is the inside of the coop where the chickens go in and get locked in at night is in the...

I have me a nice little flock of around 50 hens. I have 1 broody hen who I've put eggs under over and over again. So I found an opossum one night and have used my security set traps and done everything I can think of. Then I got another 12 under my hen and then caught dogs in there if I let my...

We had a bear tear into our coop. I dont know if this hen was then attacked by a racoon that got I to the openings or it was the bear. Deep puncture wounds on her back. One I can hear is sucking air. I'm worried about flushing and cleaning the wound like I would with just a gnarly flesh type...

Hi all! We recently got our first flock of 6, and have them set up in a coop in the back yard. When we got our ladies, I had wonderful picture of having free range hens and letting the flock out to live their best life in the yard and do chicken stuff for a few hours a day. However we recently...

Hi, We have 2 welsh harlequin pet drakes that were born in April. They are full size now and are handsomely sporting their big boy feathers. We have an 8x16 foot fully enclosed run - 1/2 wire cloth sides and top with buried or aproned cloth surrounding the run. The run includes a pond (with an...

this actually happened some time ago. We’ve since come to terms. But i’ve Had the "in memory of" sketch sitting, it had to be completed. I like to think our Orp went out in a blaze of heroism. She was trying to warn us all morning.

Hi all, We just had our second fox attack in three weeks. The one three weeks ago occurred when my chickens were out free ranging around 6:30pm and I ran inside for 20 minutes to do laundry. The fox managed to 8 of them, most being young birds. I tried to call a couple humane trap and release...