Thank you, I am grateful for all inputs.
A Ph.D. DMV at NCSU thinks it is an aerial predator.
Our local extension service director thinks it is likely cannibalism of the two lowest order hens (which these probably were, though we
had seen no indications of dominance, etc issues but I am so...
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We have just lost two hens (hatched March 2015) to a predator in daylight hours in two days.
We have a very secure elevated mobile (Horizons) coop. The dead hens were found
at the base of the entry ramp to the coop. My husband...
I have eight girls at Maiden Heaven Farm....they were theoretically able to lay starting July 27 according to the calendars...The Gold Laced Wyandotte began one week later and has continued nicely....
But I found one nice shell less egg under their roost this week. I am totally hoping and...