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Does anyone know if house-cats even have the capability of killing hens or pullets? I mean I guess they could kill small pullets because cats kill birds all the time but what about a full sized hen?

well its not even really the space, I shouldn't have said space. I like for them to have foliage to forage in, which they can't have in a permanent run

So Recently my neighbors got a couple cats, one is looks like a young adult and one is a medium sized kitten. They both look like house cats (really soft and docile) but my neighbors keep them outside. Today I noticed the kitten for the first time, so I naturally picked it up and played with it...

are there any breeds that have blue legs other than EEs? also I have a few more pictures to add

Are you sure the white ones are EEs? I thought EEs are mostly brown, not almost all white? The bigger white one still has some of its "chick fur" on its head and it looks like it was a yellow chick.

I have three 5 week old chicks that I inherited from my sister's friend and am probably going to end up adding them to my 6 hen flock. The problem is, I need to feed them but i'm not sure I want to buy separate feed just for the three of them. I've heard layer feed is bad for them because of the...

So we ended up with three chicks from one of my sister's friends, but she has no idea what breed or sex they are. They are apparently about 5 weeks old and I'm hoping the brown one is an easter egger. The only thing she told us about them was the age and that at least one of the eggs was blue...

thanks for the info! Shes doing a little better today but still hobbling.

Hey guys, I have one leghorn hen who I found sitting in the corner of the coop three days ago. I thought she was laying, but when I went to pick her up she started hopping away on one leg. I Isolated her by putting her in an enclosed shower and gave her food and water. After two days her leg...

I have one chicken that refuses to lay in the nest boxes. All of the other chickens lay in the boxes but this one lays on the ground under the boxes every day. This pretty much obsoletes the outside access of the nest boxes since I have to go inside to get that one egg every day. I don't have...

Alright thanks for the advice guys!

This may sound weird to some people but I have an unusual problem. I have 11 hens, and they produce on average 9 eggs a day. My plan was/is to sell the eggs to help pay for feed.... the problem is I can't find enough customers and my mother doesn't wan't random people coming to our house. As a...

its weird... I don't think mine have a pecking order. They do they puff up thing to eachother but they all eat at the same time, and there is no clear leader or anything. I have no idea who is at the top and who is at the bottom. They pretty much all treat eachother equally.

Alright thanks for clarifying!

Thanks for all the help guys and sorry about the late reply. Sometimes I forget to check. I put in artificial lighting and have seen huge results. In fact, two days ago i got 13 eggs. That wouldn't be surprising except for the fact that I have 11 hens... the next day I got 10 and today I got...