Everyone is alright, there was one bird with blood on her but no injuries... All the eggs were covered in blood and blood spatters in and out side of the nesting boxes. My father in laws guess was a weasel trying to steal eggs and got a beating from the girls. Whatever it was I think my hens...
Came home from the grocery store to all my hens running free. I keep an old pallet leaned against the doorway to the coop to keep my sheep out of the coop, the pallet was right were I left it. Inside the coop I found the gate latch bent (door opened inward) and wide open. I found a decent amount...
We've had a similar injury to one of our birds from our dog. She's a 65 pound love machine with a horrible habit of playing too hard. First she loves the chase and when she would bite, she wouldn't bite down hard enough to puncture the skin but did take lots of feathers out.
My flock of 11 has one hen that eats feathers. She plucks the downy feather's off the other girls' behind and eat them! 2 of my hens are almost completely bald back there! Many of them have patches of missing feathers and I think she is the one behind it. I finally isolated her today I got tired...
Well, it went exactly how I thought it would go.
The first one was the hardest, I didn't think I would cry, but I did. My husband did the actual killing but our first one was the hardest of the 3, because he fought the most and twitched a lot afterward. I thanked all of them before we did...
ESTEBAN!!
Cowboy
Captain Barbosa, he's my old man he's one eyed has a crooked toe and just recently survived a fox attack. He keeps order in the coop, he's my boy.