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    Our new Wyandotte arrived in the mail today!

    Thanks! It seemed pretty warm as wyandottes are cold hardy and we are in northern IL. It’s in the 20s now and we are prepared to move our Orpington in when it gets super cold Thursday when the real feel is -25 to -40.
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    Helping our last chicken through the cold next month and thru new bird introductions?

    I’m in your same spot. We have 1 survivor, an 8 mo. old Orpington, and lost 3 to a predator. It’s been a ROUGH week. We ordered a new 9-10 week chicken from southern IL that arrived today. We are in northern IL. New girl will be in the garage in our little coop for a bit to quarantine and...
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    Our new Wyandotte arrived in the mail today!

    She’s also making A LOT of noise. 😬
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    Our new Wyandotte arrived in the mail today!

    She’s 9-10 weeks old. Clearly distressed after a day of travel. We have a little coop in the garage for her before we introduce her to our one remaining 8 mo. old Orpington. 50 degrees ok for our new girl? Is this chart correct?
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    Winterizing new run + new chicken in IL after predator attack

    Yes that’s the outdoor coop
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    Had a predator attack and need some advice

    Thank you very much. We have one 3-4 mo old Wyandotte coming from southern Illinois. We live in northern Illinois. The ones from Montana aren’t coming until late January and I think we can cancel those. We don’t want a rooster, unfortunately. Just our girls. ♥️🐓
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    Had a predator attack and need some advice

    Our survivor is an 8 mo old Orpington; our new Wyandotte-in-waiting is 3-4 mos old. Any thoughts on that introduction?
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    Winterizing new run + new chicken in IL after predator attack

    Hi we had a predator attack last week after free ranging all day and manually opening & closing little coop door daily. With this awful situation, we are buying this run. We live in the SW suburbs of Chicago; it’ll be cold as heck next week. Also have a new 3-4 mo pullet coming next week...
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    Had a predator attack and need some advice

    we are still going over the - what was it how could this happen Snow (white leghorn) could fly & was so fast…we have one new 3-4 mo old Wyandotte coming next week. We can’t house them separately in the coop. Thinking this is the run we are going to buy or something similar. Will need to...
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    Had a predator attack and need some advice

    We treat them as pets and for eggs. We do not want to breed - no roosters. I’ll post pics tomorrow when I’m back by the coop. All the chickens we ordered are 3-4 mos. old. Our Lemon, lone survivor, is 8 months old.
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    Had a predator attack and need some advice

    Shoot ok we ordered chickens before I saw the comments. My boyfriend did - but now we have the following coming home shit shit - Orpington, white leghorn, Wyandotte, Rhode Island something (again boyfriend ordered). I’ll follow the advice above but can we have another too? A lady on a fab group...
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    Had a predator attack and need some advice

    We had a California white, Orpington, silver laced black Wyandotte and cinnamon Creme. Our Orpington is the only one that survived.
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    Had a predator attack and need some advice

    We opened the coop in the am and closed it at night. The raccoon - what we think was a raccoon - got in after it was dark & before we closed it for the night.
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    Had a predator attack and need some advice

    Not sure if this video will load but this was our morning routine to manually let them out and close the little coop door in the evening. Thinking about a guillotine light sensitive door instead of this little pull door.
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    Had a predator attack and need some advice

    Yes, but clearly that needs to change to free range only if we are able to supervise. We built a heated backyard coop - 6/7 feet x 4.5 feet x 6 feet with 5 suites and a roosting perch. Bottom floor has all the food and water with a ramp to 2nd floor sleeping area. Shavings on both floors.
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