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    Hawk inside the chicken coop

    That is a good point and the little birds are easy prey, that is why I was a bit shocked it didn't eat any of them. as soon as my husband got it out and opened the small door back up (he had opened the big door when it flew out) all the chicks ran back inside and started eating so I figured...
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    Hawk inside the chicken coop

    And as I was typing this I heard the darn thing out in the trees and looked out as it (I'm assuming at this point! LOL) was flying between the tree lines! UGH! Don't want to lose any of our babies....We have several hawks around here, a nest of them not too far away. A few years ago one of...
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    Hawk inside the chicken coop

    We have two sides to our coop, one is for our layers and one is for our meat birds, new meat birds 3-5 weeks old, we just started letting them outside during the day over the weekend. the whole run is fenced with 6 foot fence. Well my husband got home today and there was a very young hawk...
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    Feathers in Run

    Glad you posted this, we have noticed the same thing in ours. Found a bunch of barred rock feathers and I flipped out thinking we lost a bird so I was surprised when we had all four! None of ours look sick, they don't look like they are starting to molt or anything.
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    Need some input on breed?

    This baby is 3 weeks old, I was thinking easter egger? I am hopeful it is female but not too sure! Any input would be appreciated!!!
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    Breed - if anyone can help! Pretty sure it is a female - 4 months old

    Oh no! :( :( :( I so hoped it would be female....that means we won't be able to keep it :( :(
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    Breed - if anyone can help! Pretty sure it is a female - 4 months old

    Here is a close up
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    Breed - if anyone can help! Pretty sure it is a female - 4 months old

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    Curious about rooster behavior

    I had one bird that is usually the last one in at night, she almost seems to fall asleep by the actual door to go inside our coop. We have three roosters and Saturday, she was sitting there all huddled up and all three of them came out at the same time and woke her up and worked together to get...
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    Curious about rooster behavior

    I have been watching our roosters and trying to figure out their calls. I am pretty sure I figured out what they do when a "predator" is near, last night there were crows flying overhead and at first they were VERY loud and chased the hens into our treeline then continued to pace around the...
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    Chicken with possible sprained leg joint

    Any info or advice would be appreciated. I have a 3 year old RIR and last Thursday I found her in the coop just sitting there not wanting to walk on one of her legs. At first I thought she was sick because I thought it felt like her abdomen was swollen so I brought her in, checked for...
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    Molting question....

    do birds need to "molt" to continue with regular egg laying? some of our girls appear to be molting and I wonder if the need to and do we have to change the coop temp/condition to help them?
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    Easter Egger.....

    Here is a pic of the bird, not a great pic since the poor thing is very muddy! could not get it inside when it started raining and I swear it was playing in the mud... I just happened to get it to stand still long enough to snap a pic when it finally went in....Now we are almost sure it is a...
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    Easter Egger.....

    Ok, so our little "rare" chick that we swore was a boy.....laid a tiny little egg today! I was SHOCKED! it cracked me up it was so small compared to our Reds eggs! I swear it was a darn rooster!
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    Help identifying chick!

    Found some pics of the EE chicks, a few I saw look almost exactly like her when she was a baby chick! She does have the little "tufts" around her ears but not around her head....she is a pretty little thing, just not sure if she is going to fit in with my Red girls.....I would think they can...
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