Sorry to hear about your problem, but I used to have the same problem where my hens would sneak into the neighboring yards and eat their plants. I fixed this by sitting at the border of the yard each day while them foraged, and whenever they tried to walk past me I chased them away with a long...
:confused:Recently I have been noticing fewer eggs than usual in the boxes, and today only 3 out of 7 chickens laid, but when I rolled an egg over there was a hole where the yolk had been sucked out. I was wondering if it might be a predator, pest, or the chickens themselves.
D This is Lucky, she is a Specked Sussex hen and she just turned one. Her name was given to her after she was attacked by the cat twice as a chick, but survived.
This is a dumb question, but I gave a VERY energetic speckled Sussex and she has recently gotten bored of our yard, and is constantly wander into our neighbor’s yard. This is concerning because we can’t put up a fence and the neighbors have big dogs that have tried to attack the chickens before...