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OK, thanks. I agree on the rest, they did work hard this summer, lol.

They have already been through a molt. They are about 2 years old. I assumed it was due to the attack because they stopped abruptly the day after. Actually I thought one was molting because he tailfeathers looked scraggly but my wife inspected it and said they were broken. I guess she had a...

Thanks for the help. A couple of days ago we found the missing chicken. She crawled under a storage area and dies there. Now that all the hens are accounted for and none were carried away I am convinced that it was the neighbors Dachshund.

I went through a predator attack a few weeks back and my hens stopped laying. Unfortunately the predator is my neighbors dog and is still alive. He will come out and bark but they don't seem to pay much attention to him. I secured the fenceline shortly after and he can no longer get into our...

Thanks, good info and good links. Yeah I was confused to the different pattern; first time leaving three bodies and taking one and second time just leaving one dead. I think it got interrupted the second time around.

We have had a productive trouble free flock for over a year now. (Thanks to all the great advice I have read in the BYC forum.) We have a hen house but our hens have free roam of the yard. We have four dogs and a cat, none of which have ever bothered the chickens. Last weekend I found three...