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    First time loss

    We do have the smaller mesh, but we started to reinforce some areas of the wood and some of it was weakened by all the rain we have had here in middle Florida. We are fixing/replacing what looks like it could be an issue. I will still move the coop closer to our home, and I hope that will help...
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    First time loss

    Last night we lost 2 of our 6 chicken's an we re devastated..We have had them for a year and a half and though we do live on 5 acres where we have seen raccoons, opossums, and many years ago a coyote, we have never had a problem. We found one right by the coop and we could see that something had...
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    Ravens stealing eggs

    I just read some remarks about Ravens stealing chicken eggs and I was wondering if Crows do too. we had some issues with our chickens laying their eggs outside of the coop. I followed your advice and confined them for a week. I got plenty of eggs. now they are back out and I am back to...
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    Happy to Learn About Chickens!

    I only have 2 boxes, and for a while I was getting 5-6 eggs a day. Then around daylight-savings time, my Araucana stopped laying (or so I thought!). Last week, my daughter found a nest under some ferns near our front entryway that had about 25 eggs in it and most of them were the blue-green of...
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    Happy to Learn About Chickens!

    Some of the chickens (I have 6) are still laying in the box, and I have been leaving them for a day and marking them with a pencil so I can pull them the next day. Today, I have them confined in their coop and a run that we can attach to the coop. They re not happy about this, but after finding...
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    Happy to Learn About Chickens!

    I am a new member as of today and am looking forward to getting some great tips from all of you "Pros"! I have learned a few things from reading some of your blogs before I joined. I have a problem with my chickens laying eggs out of the coop. They are a year old and this is a fairly new...
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