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The possum is just a baby. We stuck a broom handle at him and he latched on. Took him out and he ran in the woods. I have an automatic chicken door so I know my hens are safe til 8 am each morning. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 3:55 PM, BackYard Chickens -...

Today I went out to my hen house to gather eggs and in the first nest box as a very young possum sound asleep. I have one of those Tractor supply coops and on the upper half of the cage, the bars are 1 1/2 by 4. I guess it was so little it crawled in at the top part. All of my eggs were still...

I have 24 week old RIR's I got my first eggs a few weeks ago from 2 of them. I have collected about 10 eggs now , but why are they are so small? This is not my first time to have chickens, but it is for RIRs. My buffs laid really large eggs and I know they have that characteristic, but this is...

I used to let my sweet girls go all over. They were so happy. I had a few mishaps with predators and it really scared me. My 10 went down to 4 so I just confined them to my very large yard. I really hated all of the poop on my porches, but I knew they were happy. Then a stray dog managed to get...

Chickens get bored very easy. Do they have plenty to do. I wanted my run/coop all nice and neat. The hens went crazy... There always seemed to be this tension in the coop. Now I have things for them to do. I put up a branch to sit on, Two large dust boxes, A hook where I hang a vegetable like...

I have the Producers Pride Defender coop. I bought 4 of them and put them together. I use the doors as access to different parts of the coop and the chickens love it. I wanted to buy more roof to extend it more, but they won't sell me any. They are very good at replacing things that are bent or...

I have had several chickens to predators. The fox doesn't even leave a feather. Takes the entire chicken home for dinner as does the bobcat and coyote. Dogs just have fun like they are stuffed animals. A Hawk and an owl will grab and go. A 7lb chicken is quite a haul, but i've seen them do it...

I'm only looking at the tail feathers and the saddle feathers because the combs are so different on each breed. The last Buff seems to have rounded tail feathers and that is definitely a pullet. Every rooster I have seen has those little points at the end of the tail feathers. That has been the...

I am trying to determine if my new RIR's are all pullets. A friend told me the tail is the best way to tell. Hens have rounded tail feathers and they are sticking out or kinda up at 6 weeks. Then look at the comb and waddles. If they are getting big, but stay orange and not red, then they could...

Associate yourself with them by always having some kind of treat. Mine is dehydrated mealworms. I talk very softly and start saying …. chick, chick, chick etc. Then I scatter some mealworms all over the pen as I keep saying chick, chick, chick etc.Not a lot. Mine immediately race to see what...

it will be so cute. I can't wait to see the finished product.