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Any advice on eradicating rats who sneak into our girls' coop and eat the feed at night? Any effective poisons / traps that won't hurt the hens? My husband was trying to do it old-school and set clamp traps with bait (peanut butter, bacon, etc.) out in the field and near coop at night when...

Mahalo to each and every one of you for your replies. We got great feedback and are a ton relieved about your relaxed attitudes. We're WAY protective of our chickens -- other people think we're crazy for putting so much time and energy into raising our "guava girls," as we call them (they LOVE...

Our 12 chicks, which we've raised since a day old, are now three months old. My husband and I are raising them on nearly two acres on Maui, which has a good year-round climate and fewer predators in our area. They are in a good-sized coop with a 6x6x10 foot fence attached so they can hang out...

Thanks for the advice! I did check out that link before I posted, but none really look like the blood. Maybe the one at the bottom, which shows it is intestinal lining. The more I monitored this morning, the more it seems as if the blood may be coming from an external injury. A friend who...

My husband and I have 12 chicks, approx. 4 wks old, 3 of each: barred rock, road isle red, black sexlinks and ameraucana. Today, we woke up and noticed blood atop their bedding. It doesn't look like bloody stools so much as it looks as if a chick or a group of chicks got their periods. The blood...