A couple weeks ago a predator killed our young rooster and 7 hens. Today I was cooking a couple eggs ... from our poor departed hens ... and noticed what looked like a "bullseye" on one of them. I've never hatched chicks before, but I suddenly wondered if it would be possible to hatch fertile...
[WARNING: PICTURE SHOWING BLOOD AND FEATHERS] A bobcat (we're pretty sure) killed 8 of our 12 chickens through a chain-link fence two days ago. (Never had any problems in 3 1/2 years of keeping chickens, but now we've learned the hard way why people use hardware cloth on the run.) It actually...
I just created an account so I could reply. :-) We just built platforms for our two coops, which are inside a 12 x 12 chain-link run. I modified the design for the platform from instructions given in the book "Reinventing the Chicken Coop"...