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    Fox attack - chances?

    Following up after 12 days. Our injured hen has done amazingly well. We haven’t been able to catch her to check on the stitches to remove them, but in all respects she is well and thriving back with the flock. Her bald patches are recovering, and she’s possibly not getting as much attention from...
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    Fox attack - chances?

    Thank you - I’m hoping there will be room for drainage. My field stitching wasn’t too tight - 3 stitches, for example, for a 3 inch wound just to bring the edges together- so there should be plenty of room for pus to drain out. No pus seen so far..
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    Fox attack - chances?

    Following up after 48 hours. She seems to be doing well. She’s quiet in the crate on a straw nest in our garage, and will feed from the hand quite hungrily. She even laid an egg. Her breathing is steady and eyes look bright. Yesterday she even called back to the rest of our free rangers outside...
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    Fox attack - chances?

    Hi - This afternoon a fox took one of our free-ranging black copper marans. Fortunately we disturbed the act and chased the fox off. To our surprise, the hen was still alive in one of our fields in the middle of a pile of feathers. She got up, then stumbled purposefully and oh so bravely back to...
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    Feeding free rangers - they don't want layer feed...

    Thank you all so much! Really helpful and confirmed my concerns. We've been too kind in giving them the scratch feed, but may in the end be harming them. New diet on the way, starting with a 20% all flock feed in the feeder (plus some oyster shell mixed in) and scratch feed limited for special...
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    Feeding free rangers - they don't want layer feed...

    Hi, We have 9 mixed laying hens about 10 months old, a surviving guinea hen and one accidental rooster. I want to check to make sure we are feeding and maintaining them appropriately. They seem amazingly healthy and have provided us with between 7-9 eggs a day since the mid-summer, and are...
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    Newbie and mesh size for guinea coop gate?

    Here is my near finished coop. It offers 72sq ft of floor space for 11 guineas and a lot of roosting options. I plan for the guineas to free-range in the day and come back home to roost, and I've built this coop to be predator-proof. As you say, they are ground-dwelling birds, but they like to...
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    Newbie and mesh size for guinea coop gate?

    Hi R2elk, Thanks for your reply. We will be free ranging our guineas, so this "coop" is only for roosting as an alternative to our trees. We hope they will come home to it. The doors are there only to keep them in for a few weeks while they imprint this as home or for any other reason they need...
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    Newbie and mesh size for guinea coop gate?

    Hi, We are raising our first guinea broods for free ranging tick control and just to have them around on 22 acres of pasture and woodlands near Hillsborough, NC. The first brood (4 survivors/10) is a month old and doing well, and the second (8 survivors/10) is three weeks behind them. We...
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