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    Hi, I'm a new member and I need some advice.

    Rats? Oh my I haven't seen any evidence of rats. What is hardware cloth and where would I purchase that? Thank you for your quick response and advice.
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    Hens appear healthy, but the next morning I found one dead in the nesting box.

    Some of my hens are 3 years old and others 2 years old. We have not caught them to closely check for bugs. They move pretty fast, but when we feed them their mealworms we have a good visual and have not noticed any bugs. Thank you for your quick response and advice. We will take a closer look at...
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    Hens appear healthy, but the next morning I found one dead in the nesting box.

    Thank you so much for your quick reply. I thought with the chicken wire all around the pen top to bottom, which is where are coops are located, that nothing other than maybe a snake could get in, but I know snakes don't eat holes in chickens. I will set another trap and bait it tonight and see...
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    Hi, I'm a new member and I need some advice.

    I'm new to raising chickens. We moved to Texas almost 4 years ago in 2013 and we bought our first set of chickens shortly thereafter. We started off with six production red hens that provided us lots of eggs. We then added some Ameraucana hens and we were doing well until some raccoons happened...
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    Hens appear healthy, but the next morning I found one dead in the nesting box.

    My hens and rooster appear very healthy. Nothing out of the ordinary as far as droppings, feathers, etc., but when my husband checked on them, he found one dead in the nesting box. He said it looked like something had made a hole in its back above the tail feathers and started eating it's...
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