Was sitting on my back porch at noon and noticed something bounding across my lawn that looked like a squirrel but it had a black face and upper body, the bottom half was dark brown and its tail was black/brown and bushy. it ran right up and through itself onto the chicken coop (hardware cloth)...
Please help - i have a large enclosed coop (see pic) and it did have a big wire dog kennel in it originally to hold a heat lamp and it was their first home. Now that the chickens are getting big (3mths old), i pulled the dog carrier out and put milk crates (lined with straw) for them to lay on...
Okay this may sound silly but we had a bird disappear (think it may have been a fox or an owl since there was no trace) and now my silkie who was its buddy seems sad. One minute they were hanging out and the next minute they disappeared. I called my 4 girls and only 3 returned. I feel...