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    Breed ID

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    Breed ID

    Does this wing help make an ID. I really was leaning Speckled Sussex, but now I’m back to Welsummer.
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    I took them some melon rinds yesterday and only about half of them turned up. They’re perfectly content to range.
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    I have traps out for raccoons. I’m not sure how to bring them in before dark. At dusk they put themselves to bed. If I go out and say “hey you chickens, go to bed!” They just ignore me and keep free ranging until dark. Feed foes not bring them in.
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    It’s only an issue on years that corn is planted. I really like free ranging my birds because they eat a lot less.
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    The door is the chicken door that’s about 8”x11”. I’ve not seen any bobcats, but there is a pretty major river along the backside of my property, maybe 1/2 mile away. Where the woods end a cornfield starts and it stretches up to about 20’ from my coop, so there is plenty of cover available for...
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    Ok guys, the perpetrator struck again last night. We lost two birds. One was 2-3 months old and all that was left was some feathers. The other was a 3 year old hen that was dragged a few hundred feet from the coop and left, not eaten. The only way whatever it was could have gotten in and gotten...
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    I’m in west central Indiana. North of Terre Haute if you’re a Hoosier.
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    Do weasels tend o pass through and not come back? Whatever this was didn’t come back a second time and I’m pretty sure a weasel could have gotten in my other coop.
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    Happened at night.
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    Any guess on this pullet?

    Hatchery birds have a tendency to not be very good examples of the breed. I’m fairly certain these birds came from Hoover.
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    Oh and the hole is in wood. No fur.
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    It left the wings of one bird and just feathers of the other 5. I have two coops. A main one and one that I started with that’s too small. I use the second one for birds that are injured and chicks that are still too small. A had a pullet with an injury in there. The other 5, I think roosted...
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    Any guesses from this smudged print?

    A couple of weeks ago I had something wipe out 6 3 month old birds. One was injured and in my second coop. Whatever got it left the wings and a few feathers. Everything else was gone. It entered through a 3 1/2” x 4” hole near the roof of the coop. There are claw marks on the outside and several...
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    Any guess on this pullet?

    Could be, but here in the Midwest, black sexlinks are synonymous with RIRxBR and I knew these didn’t resemble that cross.
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