Blaming mink cos surrounded by streams and rivers, and chickens dead having been healthy and laying day before and then dead drained with white eyes and exposed neck, big gnawed hole in coop
Have lost 5 chickens and was blaming everything in my search to understand, I found a gnawed hole in the coop yesterday, I am in rural Ireland surrounded by streams and rivers, has to be a mink
I have ex battery, they are 2 months in recovery and coming on well, one just laid 2 in a row this morning, I stayed with her, so it is not made up, the 2'nd egg was all crumpled, the shell, but perfect eggs
Thanks for the welcome unfortunately 2nd person let me down today and didn't turn up to build the run, so I have contacted someone else who should come tomorrow,very annoying when you are trying to pay people to do a job and the just don't show
Have been doing as much research as I have a chance to get to. I took 8 rescue chickens, ex batts, I had no idea the world of egg production was so incredibly screwed and cruel. I lost 2 already, they dropped dead. The remaining 6 seem strong, but we will see. I have no run built and am all...