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    Help rats are eating my chickens!

    Thank you, all great advice!
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    Help rats are eating my chickens!

    Thanks, I will definitely keep a light on all night. Today we are cleaning all the bedding out of the coop (in the frozen rain) to get a good look for any places where they might be getting in. It truly is amazing how they can fit through the smallest hole. After that, we're doing smoke bombs...
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    Help rats are eating my chickens!

    No, I have nowhere to keep 20 hens and a rooster. No garage. I have a barn but it's only 100' from the coop area and they wouldn't be safe there either.
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    Help rats are eating my chickens!

    I've had chickens for 25 years and never had this problem before. Rats are living under my coop, we've been waging war on them for the last year...With the weather being so cold this winter we forgot to trap them and now they've decided to eat my chickens. In the last week I've lost four...
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    Hen attacked by other chickens,head is torn open

    Thank you for your reply, that gives me hope...Will definitely put both roos in another pen. Jude
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    Hen attacked by other chickens,head is torn open

    Thank you for replying, I will do everything you suggested...what are the signs of shock that I should be looking for?
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    Hen attacked by other chickens,head is torn open

    Yesterday I saw my 6 month old rooster (one of two) attack my 4 year old hen. I separated him out. Went down to check on her today and found her like this. Her scalp has been picked away, one eye is shut and it looks so awful!! I'm thinking the other rooster attacked her and possibly other...
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    Young Rooster aggressive to hen

    I have 23 hens. I'll separate him for now and give the beta roo a chance to prove himself a gentleman. :)
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    Young Rooster aggressive to hen

    Thanks, I'll separate him for a while and give him a chance and see if he calms down.
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    Young Rooster aggressive to hen

    Hi all, I've been raising chickens for about 20 years and I haven't seen behavior like this before...It's been years since I bought a rooster, I've bred my own from sweet, tried and true stock. After my old rooster died I sent away for one Lavender Orpington rooster with my new pullets. Well, I...
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