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I also have a broody hen. We are trying the cage but she's not happy about that. She's barely eating and she's has started to pluck her breast feathers out. If after a couple of days we let her out and she goes right back to brooding, I think we will buy some fertilized eggs, we don't have a...

So I went to check on the chicks and our older chick is acting kind of funny, when I went i. And looked in on them she had scratched all the bedding in an area down the bare wood, was laying between perch stick that she had knocked off thier base and the base, at first she looked like she was...

Ok thanks for all the tips, it's appreciated! The coop will be reinforced with heavier hardware for sure it's a bit flimsy. I'll send the rebar info forward to my fiancé, thanks again

Thank you, we planned on pounding rebar into the ground under the wood fencing and the we have a big role of horse fencing that we will bury under the ground below the chain link about a foot down, for digging deterrence. I would hope that would be enough but again we are going the mile to make...

Thanks so much for the advice, I will chec out the link and yes we have been working with the dogs, they are still super excited ( for the wrong reasons) about the chicks, but they are responding better to our commands. The chicks are not the same age as the one that survives the attack, but...

So sorry about your turkey chick, we lost two of our chicks to our dogs yesterday as well. Nursing the third girl who somehow got away from them and lost some tail feathers, but shockingly survived. It's very sad and yes my share of tears rolled down my cheeks as well. One of the chicks killed...

Thank you, I believe she will be ok. We picked her up some friends . She's not real fond of them yet but we shall see if she warms up to them. Our plan for the chicks is once they go outside into their coop they will be on lock down and not allowed out of their coop unless the dogs are locked...

To all who responded, our little girl is doing better, she's eating and drinking and we have decided to keep her and get her a couple of friends and try this again, we are not into bringing mayhem or worse onto any animal ad if not for one oversight of a door latching or not latching is...

I do have a quick question regarding the outdoor coop. We want to build 6 foot solid fencing on the sides of the area around the coop itself and put a tarp or something that takes away the visualization if the chickens and their coop on the front chain link fencing and gate. It our dogs can't...

Hi thank you for your interest in our chick, after a long discussion last night and today we have decided not to give her up. The lethal attack on our three girls was human error and we would like to give it another go. But thank you again

Hello, I have a I month old chick in need of a safe home. She is the sole survivor of a fatal dog attack on her companions. I don't want to keep her and risk her life for a few eggs in the future. I live in southwest Washington state, city of onalaska. If anyone lives near me and is interested...

Her injury appears to be an injury of pulled feathers? It doesn't look like a puncture, but she's pecking at it herself. We have not observed her eating but I think she's drinking a little, she's just sitting and making a different noise than usual , it's not the purring they were all doing...

Also, she's all of a sudden by herself now, I read that chickens don't do well in solitary situations, so getting her with chicks her own age is important? And soon? Thanks for any info

Hello all. You probably have read my last posts, two of my chicks were killed today, still needing a safe home for the sole survivor, but in the mean time can I treat her injury with neosporin?

Thank you for the info. Yeah it sad but it's the right thing to do, I'm too much of an animal lover to risk her life for a few eggs.