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    massacre of the flock

    They've built a sturdy fence to keep wild dogs out. Its been really hard on my friend. Thank you. quote name="Rock Home Isle" url="/t/1117883/massacre-of-the-flock/0_100#post_17227379"]That would be such a hard loss. I could not imagine.... The thing about predators...they always come back...
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    massacre of the flock

    Foot prints were found, different sizes, like more than one dog.
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    massacre of the flock

    We are almost certain dogs, lost, stray, wild dogs. 8 years there without one single predator problem. She has a window air conditioning uniit so she heard nothing. They are in a large unsecured coop which was enough until this happened.
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    massacre of the flock

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    massacre of the flock

    Warning: horrid pics of chicken massacre. Unknown source of destruction so far. Lost half the flock of approximately 100. My friend woke up to this, has had chickens for years without one single problem. Hardly any eaten, only one in whole, and some of tje egg production areas of other...
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    Sick Hen - Help Please!

    I wish I would have seen this sooner. Sorry I missed this. It is a little bit hard. On the heart too. So very sad. I've heard to use a humidifier, those new ultra sonic ones with colloidal silver. At the farmers market there's a booth that sells the colloidal silver stuff. Both barton...
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    HELP**Hen Laying Down and Acting Strangely

    Oh, so sorry, I lost one that way too, an araucana. I do believe it was her first egg stuck and she too died in 2-3 days.
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    Pine Shavings or Straw

    I used straw until a chicken died from impacted crop after eating a bit of straw and having it clog tbe crop. Not trying to sound like a downer, juat sharing.
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    behavior after predator attack

    The last 15 months has been a great fail in chicken keeping. My baby was born and one night the coop was left open and that's how it all began. From then on there have been daytime attacks, break ins, and reinforcement and somehow more break in. It's hard on the heart. Lesson learned...
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    behavior after predator attack

    We have moved and if she makes it we are building it with hard wire and fixing everything that was wrong. The last one had added hard wire on the bottom half.
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    behavior after predator attack

    An racoon attack, killed my beautiful lavender Orphington named valentine. Only the red Orphington left. Ripped her crest almost completely off. We moved and neighbors were watching them until we built new coop. The racoons ripped into coop from top, it seems. Small entry but is all I can...
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    Bugs in my chicken feed

    I have recently been struggling with the same bugs that are originally posted in this thread, the photo. They are a problem! They are eating away at the chicken feed and have been pulverizing the feed so all I have is powder!!! I so annoyed with these bugs! So if you notice your feed is all...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    those lavenders are spectacular birds! They will bring you so much joy! Such sweethearts!
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    Why have chickens?

    "they" are not so smelly but their coop sure can be especially after rain. Other cons… attract rats and mice, mosquitos. But they are such sweet creatures and they eat the bugs, maybe even the fleas because I haven't had a problem since, and they really are entertaining. Keep them safe and...
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    cold weather dead chicken

    Yes blue/green. Thank you. Helpful words.
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    cold weather dead chicken

    We had a real cold snap here in Texas. By 4pm after the night before with freezing weather and a windy night she'd just had it. I feel I made a number of mistakes, make sure you don't. Number one, when I noticed the hard wind late night I should of went out and made them go in the little...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    my beauties. Orpha in front, Valentine in back.
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    how can i stop racoons and opossums from coming close to my coop

    I believe raccoons have taken two of mine this week. One Monday and one Friday. How do they run off with them? Still alive or do they kill them first. I'm hoping there was no suffering. Sunday Night my husband forgot to lock them. I counted on him since my newborn of was 2 weeks at the...
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    Chicken eaten, nothing left but the beak...

    Mystery Solved. Almost 3 a.m. and the evil culprit give themselves away. Racoon. They are messing around on my back porch tonight making all kind of noise. I go out to see and chase them off. I look over balcony and see the remains of my chicken. Loads of her feathers and even a piece of...
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    Chicken eaten, nothing left but the beak...

    now that I have researched more, maybe only the head was eaten because the amount of feathers there would of been of the eaten one would have been much much more eaten under the tree. Maybe ate the head, left the beak, and ran off with the rest. Here is my new worry. Been checking on the...
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