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Our family lost our whole flock today. We had six chickens. There is one remaining, but I do not expect her to make it. It was either a dog or a coyote. We have coyotes in the area, but I suspect it was a dog for the simple fact that it ripped hardware cloth completely off the screws and tore...

Lost our whole flock to a coyote or dog. Not sure. Have a very sad second grader here. Bad night.

Thank you.

We got rid of an aggressive rooster and replaced him with a 1.5 year old red star hen three days ago. We have six hens (counting her) in a chicken tractor. The run is 8x4. We have two Leghorns, Two BR's, one EE and the new Red Star. The chickens are let out to forage in the evenings. The...

Thanks for the advice. As the rooster had been our favorite hen, the rest of the family was opposed to removing his head. I placed an ad on craigslist and he was taken in by a flock that needed a new rooster. Now we have to decide what sort of hen to replace him with....

I have a newly laying flock. One of my six "Hens" is a rooster and is becoming aggressive. I have small kids. I am thinking of eating him and getting a point of lay pullet to replace him with. The family is not thrilled with this idea and I do allow my chickens to free range on our ten...

I have a newly laying flock. They are a few weeks into laying and I believe on of my Barred Rocks is laying only shelless eggs. My chickens have ready access to oyster shell and we feed them back their crushed shells. What gives?

Mine are from a hatchery. Both Leghorns are laying huge white eggs and started early. The others are just getting going in the last two weeks or so. My understanding is the one EE should be consistent in her egg color so I wonder about the olive and blue egg. I need a nest cam...

Also, they are all new layers.

Alright, I have five layers. Two Leghorns, two barred rocks, and one Easter Egger. I have had a few brown eggs, lots of white eggs and one green and one blue. Do I have a BR laying a green or olive egg?

I am raising my first flock. I have 2 leghorns, 2 barred rocks, and two eater eggers. One of my EE's turned out to be rooster so five layers. In late june my leghorns started laying and I am now getting two large - XXL white eggs each day. They are amazing. Day in day out. About a week or...

i took the nest buckets off. thanks

I have moved my pullets outside into the coop. They are about 5-6 weeks old and feathered. I have noticed that they seem to prefer to pile up in the nest boxes rather than use even the low roosts. Is this a bad habit to let them get into or will they naturally start to use the roosts as they...

One more thing. The end of the corrugated metal is sharp. Cut myself nicely on it yesterday. Going to put the plastic cover from Home Depot on it today.