The 4 we have left were guessed to be around 3-4. They came from a co-worker of mine that raised them from chickens but moved and needed to rehome.
The one that passed was a different breed and older, probably 7ish. Also from the coworker.
All the poop looks normal and everyone is still...
I noticed yesterday that my one hen was losing little feathers like crazy. Today when I let them out, even more gone. If she is molting shania doing it much later than last year. I've only had them since last Sept, still pretty new! But when I let her out today she came down the run and...
She still hasn't let me grab her - I did get her to lift her wings up another time or two so I could see better and no punture wounds! She is still limping but it has improved - she is eating and seems to be slowly getting better :-)
I had a hen get snatched by a fox yesterday evening around 6pm and drug into the woods. By 8pm she was running into the side of the pen wanting in...she escaped the fox! We let her in and locked her up.
When i let her out today I noticed she had quite a few feathers missing, reached for her...
We have had our 5 chickens for about a year now. No issues with predators up to this point - this weekend one of our girls passed naturally. The next day one was snatched up by a fox and it ran off into the woods with her. I think our coop is very secure - hence not having an issue with this...