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    What the ???? My hen is laying alien beings! warning - gross graphic images

    Thanks! Never heard of a "lash" before. This hen was a rescue from a commercial breeding operation. Wonder it that's why she was past her "sell by date". Also wondering if she will start laying normally again. These two "eggs" are the first I have gotten from her since I acquired her in...
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    What the ???? My hen is laying alien beings! warning - gross graphic images

    What the H*** is this?! Have had a hen (black australorp) that has been feeling under the weather for about a week or so. Not eating, lethargic and increasingly bad diarhea. Started her on broad spectrum antibiotics and three days later (yesterday) found a large egg shaped glob in the coop...
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    What killed my birds?

    I have seen bobcats down by the creek. Infrequently, but I know they are there. I don't think it was rats, these were all really good size birds and I watched my Buckeye (Ernestine) chase and kill a rat that was in the pen. It would have taken an army of them to kill all three birds in one...
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    What killed my birds?

    Will do so in the future. Top mesh was to easy to get through I guess. Because of the cement floor and the heavy gauge panels around the perimiter of the pen, I thought we were safe. Poor Erinestine, Bernice and Eunice! I hope they were asleep and not too aware of what was happening. I am...
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    What killed my birds?

    Thanks. Whatever it was, had to climb a six foot panel, chew through the netting (about a 6" x 12"" hole) and then kill the birds. I don't know how it would climb out again, 'tho. The door to the pen was securely closed. I have never heard of any of the common predators burying the killed...
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    What killed my birds?

    Never posted here before, but have gotten lots of good information from you all. Have read many of the predator posts, but I am truly stumped. Went out to my coop this morning and no birds, some feathers scattered around, 'tho. Once I got inside (mind you this is a very secure coop situated...
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    An apocolypse herd/flock

    'K Haven't heard anybody say bees (no bees, no crops). do they count? Definitely chickens (meat, eggs) goats (milk, cheese, meat, field mowing, brush fire control), donkey (predator control, field mowing, meat if necessary); pigs, cows if available, although not required.
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