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    What's taking my hens?

    I don't know if the eagle's wingspan can get into the trees, it's possible but it has a 1.5 meter wingspan. I wondered about the pine marten/polecat. Equally it could be an owl, but I thought they generally took the head and neck and left the rest. Certainly all the dead pigeons round here...
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    What's taking my hens?

    They were completely free range during the day until I found today's head, now they're on lock-down behind 1/4 inch steel mesh. The head was found in woodland behind the covered run. I'm in the UK so no racoons or coyotes. We're a bit of a funny set up, we're an old farm but technically in...
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    What's taking my hens?

    My one experience of a dog attack the bugger didn't pick them off one at a time though, instead killing 4 and maiming one in the attack. Also it was quite a clean break when I found their heads, which it certainly wasn't when I cleaned up after the dog.
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    What's taking my hens?

    I lost a couple of hens recently and can't find what is taking them. Whatever it is is taking the bodies but leaving the heads and they're going in daylight hours. Everything I come across seems to leave the bodies and take the heads or take the whole bird. Any ideas? The poor little...
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    Topic of the week - Chicken run management

    My run started off as huge for the 6 chickens I planned on getting, now it feels a little overcrowded with my 19. However they spend very little time in the run, I let them out into the garden. It's about 30 square meters (320 square feet) in all, but that includes 2 coops, a sick pen and an...
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    Hi @UKApril I also keep trying not to add to my flock, but they just keep falling into my car on the way past the rescue...
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    Ugh redmites. I've been ok (touch wood) this year but last year I was going to bed dreaming about the little blighters. I can think of more attractive things to dream about frankly. I found a good jetwash of everything, followed by a rigorous coating of neat jeyes fluid left on (lock the...
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    Phew, thanks for that peeps :) I was starting to think I'd got something totally wrong, they've never done this for the last 2 years. Although incidentally I did get 6 today so a little bit of leg crossing and strike action may have been going on (can't believe I'd only give them half a garden...
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    Hey guys and girls, Has anyone else found that their hens have gone right off lay at the minute? Since the last time I posted egg production has dropped like a stone. So much so that I kept them all (apart from Hannibal, who sneaked out behind me, cheeky mare) locked in the run yesterday to...
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    Comment by 'Psychochick' in article 'The Best Chicken Feeder - 8 feeders compared'

    Great ideas. I wonder with the bucket feeder if you could use tin saver caps (you know, like cat food lids) to cover the ends at night if you use a similar size pipe? I have a roofed trough feeder right now to stop water coming in and I just put a plank of wood over it at night. They don't...
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    Awww bless her, I'm so sorry for your loss :( I've had a couple from rescue that have just died within the first week, it's heart breaking. Focus on the fact she died loved and with her freedom x My badly behaved birds are doing my nut in right now. 18 hens, I got 2 eggs in the 'nesting'...
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    You are not the weather god. It is not your fault. It feels that way - I cried for days after I lost my first girls to a dog attack - but from what I see here you did your best, it's just events took over :( So sorry for your loss.
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    Please someone help me with mites!!!

    @Suzie hence the neat jeyes fluid after a good old power wash. Works a treat for me anyway, then DE to rid the lurkers.
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    post your chicken coop pictures here!

    Just wow. My chickens have now just mutinied and told me I pull my finger out or they're moving stateside... Apparently they don't have the lifestyle they expect or deserve! I though I was doing ok too
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    Ahhh the sweet sound of my Dad getting used as a piñata by Mr Attitude Problem I've already had to go bail him out of getting his *** kicked all over the place once today. Some people never learn. Don't reward bad behaviour...
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