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A few months ago I had something get into my ½ acre fenced in chicken area (3”x5” wire, 8 feet tall) and kill a few of my chickens and the four turkeys I had. Whatever it was ate some of them, and just killed the rest. There were spots in the fence were whatever it was actually pulled the...

I’ve got half a dozen chickens that I’ve had since last spring, and they have been pretty trouble free for the most part. My wife wants to get a few turkeys this spring, and then butcher them this fall. I’m thinking about picking up a 3 or 4 of the Broad Breasted Bronze turkey poults and seeing...

It sounds like I'm not the only one who has had some chickens killed by hawks. I had my favorite rooster killed by a hawk yesterday. It was a huge rooster, he must have put up one heck of a fight. In the end, the hawk won. He did a great job of protecting the hens, they must have ran and hid...

We decided to plant a garden this year....much bigger than we have ever planted before. It's 25x50ft, and we have it full of tomatoes, zucchini, peas, squash, potatoes, cabbage...you name it. So far this summer it's been going great, producing like crazy. The one thing that we are constantly...

We picked up a small Mediterranean donkey a few days ago to put with our two Scottish Highland heifer yearlings. According to the lady we got him from, he's around 2 years old. He's not gelded yet, but is very affectionate, calm, and will follow you around where ever you go. He's obviously been...

Well, I've been keeping the chickens in the coop all the time except when I'm home from work.....and I've got a live trap out next to the coop. So far it's almost been a week, and I've not caught a single thing in the live trap (baited with sardines). How long before I should just assume that...

I have 7 chickens that I keep in a big coop at night, but let out during the day when I'm at work. They are free to roam the 1/2 acre pen that the coop is in while I'm at work. The pen is fenced it with 8-foot woven wire high fence. A small predator like a fox might be able to make it through...

Here are some pictures. You can see how she is balling up her one foot, it's not spread out like it should be. She will hop around enough to get to the food and water, but then she just sits. When she's hopping around, sometimes she will loose balance and just fall over. When this happened...

I will post some pictures tomorrow. I noticed today that she is still hobbling around...not getting any better. When I first noticed her limping last week, it looked like it was just one leg.....now it's starting to look like she's not wanting to put much weight on either leg. She still makes it...

I’m having a problem with one of my young chickens. They are all going on 8 weeks old, and I just put them outside in the coupe around a week ago. They are all doing great, but I noticed last weekend that one of the Leghorns is limping around and not wanting to put any weight on one of its feet...