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PLEASE buy yourself a trail camera! For $50 you will know what got your chicken(s)! We can only guess and surmise based on our interpretation of your posts. With a trail camera you will know and can post pictures of how to or how not to keep chickens safe.

Strictly 100% all my fault. Yesterday when I got home from work at 5 PM I followed my regular routine by going out to the coop to collect eggs. Beautiful day so I open the door to the chicken run so they can free range till dark. As we are eating supper I look out the window. Lucky and...

Just down the road from a Chicken Owner (CO) was the local Animal Shelter (AS). CO was losing chickens (presumably to coons) so the CO worked out a deal with the AS people. AS provided a live animal trap. CO would trap a coon and then take it to the AS for release and get another empty trap...

And how they got up there I have no idea. About 2 feet from the floor and 2 weeks ? old. At about a month old ?

9 BO’s. 8 hens & one Rooster. Almost 9 months old. I have 2 roosting bars that are identical except for their height. 8 BO roost on the highest bar and the remaining hen sleeps on the floor of the coop. Don’t know why, I asked but didn’t receive any comprehensible answer. One of the...

I got home yesterday a little after 5 PM and went out to the coop to collect eggs. Temperature is 10 F with a little sun trying to peek thru the clouds. And where are the 8 + 1 Buff Orpingtons? Huddled in the coop looking at warm Caribbean Cruise brochures? Nope. Scratching around in...

The chicken wasn’t my daughter who was within seconds of drowning before she was pulled from the water. The chicken wasn’t my son whose knee was taken out a during High School football. The chicken wasn’t my wife whose growth tested benign. The chicken wasn’t my Dad’s whose stroke trimmed...

8 Buff Orpingtons hens and 1 Rooster. Almost 8 months old. 12 pound hanging feeder with sloping cover. Feeder hangs approximately 12" from the ground in a secured run. Run is 8' x 24'. Secured run is totally covered with 1/2" wire fabric including roof eaves. Run also has a 1/2" wire...

As soon as the word got out (wife) that I am raising chickens I've been bombarded with request for eggs. With 8 BOs maturing I'm getting 4 to 5 eggs daily. We use a dozen a week so that left 1, maybe 2 dozen a week to sale. WHEN YOU SELLING EGGS? Neighbor gives us the surplus from her...

8 + 1 Buff Orpingtons (8 hens, 1 rooster). They are almost 7 months old. Wikipedia states a hen will lay 175 to 200 eggs a year. Roughly that translates to a egg every other day. So with 8 hens I should be averging 4 eggs a day. Mine have been laying 4 a day for about a month. Then 5...

Yesterday while I was sitting on the throne and reading a poultry cataloge I read that you should only feed what they's eat before noon each day because if chickens are overfed their eggs will become too large too lay. I fill up their feeder and waterer on Tuesday evenings and Saturday...

I got 9 Buff Orpingtons. 8 hens,1 rooster. They will be 6 months old at the end of this month (November) From what I've read they will average laying an egg every other day. The last 10 days I've been getting 4 eggs a day so I figure all 8 hens matured and are laying. Last Thursday 5...

I've got 8 + 1 BOs just over 2 month old. When I get home from work, I check their feed, water and sometimes have a treat for them. They are always waiting for me in their secured run. Not last night. No chicks in the run!? AH! I bet the computer controlled chicken door didn't open and...

While I'm waiting for a back ordered item to complete my Plan A "coon surprise" (insert evil laugh) I moved on to Plan B. Plan B is the live trap wife used to capture stray cats so she could get them fix. Day 1. Setup trap by coop with 2 marshmallows on the trigger plate. Next morning no...

Buff Orpingtons at 5 weeks old. I have 8 that look like this one so they must be hens. And 1 that is feathering slower then the other 8 and has a more pronounce and dark comb. So is this one the rooster?

Question. I've read allot on this Forum about lice, mites or other insects on chickens. If you had Chickens that have experienced an infestation, do your chickens have access to a regular dirt bath?

Just my thoughts. The best security is based on layers. Think of it as several different sized circles around a smaller circle in the center. As a predator (two legged or 4 legged) attempts to go thru your circles (layers) of security they can be either stopped or slowed down and you will...

Hawk - carry off a grown chicken? After watching this video I'd say YES!