Thanks for the input ill be keeping a close eye on the pen we have a lot of squirrels up on the mountain i have read a couple post that there chickens have been attacked and they saw it happing
Today i went out back to feed the chickens and to my surprise one of my roosters was pretty torn up i mean like lost most of his feathers he was in bad shape but he looks like he will recover. My chickens have a in closed coop they sleep in at night and its in a 20x24 fully caged run...
Thank you I' am learning quite a bit since I found this web site it has been a lot of fun I like to just sit out by the pen and coop and watch there antics . we live in a rual area with coyotes and hawks roaming freely I built a cyclone fenced run 24 ft by 20...
Hi we are new to raising chickens our chickens have started laying eggs we were pretty excited when we saw the first eggs blue and pink ones ' My wife tells me we should have the rooster in a seperate pen if we don't want to have chicks out of the eggs . We want the eggs...