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    Foiled Hawks

    Thanks - as much as I've watched the pair of red tails, I never realized the larger one was the female. I'm not sure how long they live, but we have had a pair nesting within a few hundred yards of our chickens for years, and this is the first time they were an active threat - and we haven't...
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    Foiled Hawks

    Sorry - but this happened while we were right here. We didn't see the hawk attack, but a pair of red tails had been hanging around in the trees around midday. We heard the hens screech, and came running out of the house - just a pile of feathers in the middle of our lawn. There were no other...
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    Foiled Hawks

    I think you are ok even if you only have part of the run covered. Hawks not only have to have the room to attack, they need to have sufficient space to take off with extra weight; they can't go vertical like a helicopter. Your biggest problem is the stress caused to your chickens by the hawk's...
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    3 day old bully. HELP!

    DogRN, I tried reintegrating ours a couple of times after breaks of a couple of days each, but it returned to the aggressive behavior. I'm not sure what caused the breakthrough, because it is now behaving. One may be that we separated it for more than a week without reintegration attempts...
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    what is getting our chickens??

    We had one hen taken by a hawk, but it left a pile of feathers in the yard. We have had a couple of hens go missing at night from the coop, and suspect a fox. We lost one whole flock of 18 birds in one night (our first, and we thought we had protected them adequately) to a raccoon or weasel...
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    3 day old bully. HELP!

    Quote: Fingers crossed - it's been three days since we re-integrated the "mean" chick. I've spent as much time as possible observing, and see no signs at all of the previous aggression so far. I had actually assumed that I would have to keep it separated permanently (we are planning on...
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    3 day old bully. HELP!

    My chicks are about three weeks old. I had one that started that sort of aggressive behavior on day one, and I used the box they were delivered in to isolate it, but still left it in the brooder. When the chick outgrew that, I kept it in a small cage, also in the brooder. I tried...
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    Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

    Buff Orpingtons, Blue-laced Wyandottes, Cuckoo Marans, Speckled Sussex, and Ameracaunas (although from other entries on this thread, they are probably Easter Eggers) You lookin' at ME? MINE! They do love balancing acts! Isolated because he (?) pecks at the eyes of others. Strutting their...
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    One eye closed, one pecker in time out, and rice hulls?

    I've got the same problem with one of mine - he cocks his little head and goes straight for the eyes of the others. None of the rest do that. I've had him (I'm assuming it's a him...) in time-out since the day they arrived (five days ago). As far as I can tell, there is no damage to the eyes...
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    My chicks are dieing!

    Since the company you bought them from has been selling other meat crosses from that hatchery, surely they should be getting calls from other customers by now. You could ask them, although you might not trust their answer, particularly if you talk to management. It depends on the relationship...
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    My chicks are dieing!

    While I am not at all happy about GMO products either, I would not assume that that is the problem. If it was, all the chicks from eggs that this company sells would be having the same problem.
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    Pecking problem

    I have isolated the little dickens since day one - I've tried to re-integrate him three times, and each time, he starts the aggressive behavior again within a few minutes of being let out. I may end up just keeping him separate permanently, and making him the first chicken dinner.
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    Pecking problem

    I have isolated the little dickens since day one - I've tried to re-integrate him three times, and each time, he starts the aggressive behavior again within a few minutes of being let out. I may end up just keeping him separate permanently, and making him the first chicken dinner.
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    Pecking problem

    Thanks for the suggestions!
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    Pecking problem

    This is our fourth flock, and I haven't ever seen this behavior before. We just received our chicks early yesterday - five each Buff Orpington, Speckled Sussex, Americaunas, Blue-laced Wyandottes and Cuckoo Marans (although one of the Orpingtons was dead on arrival). Last evening, I noticed...
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