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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    It happened inside the coop how the blood played out. Fully enclosed, wooden frame metal siding. Funnily enough a skunk got into thier run a couple weeks ago. Other than giving me a heart attack, he didn't get into the coop
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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    So yeah. Bad neck battle wound, very badly bleeding comb. Rough looking hens = bad rooster.
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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    well, exciting conclusion!!! It's been a long summer. Rocky has some scarring but shes fine. Ozzy, not so much. found out what happened. So, rocky was in the birdie hospital for a week. Healed nice, let her back out with the flock. The next day I heard screaming and ran over. That bastard of a...
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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    No possums up here. Weasels and coons are really the only thing capable of getting over a fence, through 2 doors and up a ramp. I had owls take hens before, that was different too and we've covered the top. No owls since then thank goodness
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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    Onto Rockys status! She's eating and drinking and beeping at us. Starting to enjoy being a spoiled house chicken. The wound is fully scabbed over now. My other hens are having troubles though. She was the dominant hen. Hopefully next week she's not too sore to go out and beat them all up again lol
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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    Yeah, I lost 3 hens to an owl 2 winters ago. He waltzed right into the coop, pulled them out.... not fun at all!
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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    Ozzy has no injuries. I'm suspecting whatever it was was young. It could have been the owl coming back, but that's more doubtful. Too many bunnies to eat this time of year plus the main run has bird mesh over the top. He hasn't been back since I placed it up. Plus it happened on a night that was...
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    Mid Minnesota scratch n dent coop

    Only windows that can't open is the stacked wall. The door and other two windows open. It's hit 100 here already.
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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    Yep, I know and agree.
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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    From the blood splatter marks whatever it was grabbed her and pulled her to the floor. There was a definite scuffle. HUGE scuffle from the marks. I'm assuming Ozzy dropped on its back and scared it away. Or beat it and scared it away. It couldn't have been long or she would have been a goner...
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    My rooster has paid for himself. Warning, graphic

    So yesterday morning I went out and didn't see 2 of my hens. But it was thier laying time, didn't think much about it (7 am). 9am I went out and red came for treats, but rocky was still awol. Went and looked in the house, she wasn't there. Uh oh. Blood all over the walls. Double and triple uhoh...
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    Mid Minnesota scratch n dent coop

    Since this is a build thread, here's the finished for now product. First, the run I can close them into as needed. The old coop used to be buried in the middle there. The outside food and water. It's summer so I get to be lazy! The roosting bars. I already need to scoop poop. But I'm being a...
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    Mid Minnesota scratch n dent coop

    The spring has come, girls moved in. Just in time for lots of little eggs. The ee aren't laying yet but the speckleds are ramping up. They came to say hi!
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    Mid Minnesota scratch n dent coop

    Today's tasks is another layer of paint, trimming back great stuff I put in the window bank, making perches and nest boxes out of a pair of drawers we have in the shop.
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    Mid Minnesota scratch n dent coop

    Then yesterday we finished the inside. So I finally am using some stuff we had to buy... 3 rolls of R11 insulation and 4 cheap sheets of melamine. I painted the floor with leftover exterior paint, it'll get another coating later. Yes, the insulation in the ceiling is laying there. It's the...
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