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    20 chickens dead and/or missing

    Sometime during the middle of the day yesterday something entered the run of our coop and broke the necks of 14 of our chickens, leaving them laying in the run and coop. One was found just outside the run and another was found about a 1/4 mile into the woods behind our house. I'm missing about...
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    Hen or Rooster?

    They are 5 months old and cross between Easter Eggers and Salmon Favorelle. Pretty sure the pretty red one is a roo. What about the white one?
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    To Cull or Wait?

    This chick was born yesterday. I saw it hatch and then left without getting a good look at it. When I came back later in the afternoon it was out in the run all by itself with it's eye's crusted over. After cleaning it up it was able to open it's eyes but it's beak stays open most of the time...
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    Should I Put it Out of it's Misery?

    I had a broody hen hatch 2 chicks with one still pipping. I was going to separate them from the rest of the flock once the last one hatched but before I could one of the chicks got attacked by the flock. She hatched this morning and when I found her this afternoon she was in the middle of the...
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    Love this Hen. Anyone Know what Kind it is?

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    Mama Hen Ate First Baby, What to do with other egg

    My broody hen gotten taken by a coon so I put her eggs under another broody hen. The first began to hatch and when I checked it in the morning it was no where be found so I'm guessing the hen ate her. I have another egg tapping so I believe it's getting ready to hatch. I don't have an incubator...
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    Raccoons Came Back

    Two nights ago we lost 2 chickens and a chick to a mama raccoon and her 4 (big babies). We captured them on video the next night looking for a way in but leaving without getting in. Last night the mama coon found a way in. We think she lifted the metal roof and got in that way. I heard the...
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    Nighttime Visitor

    After losing 2 chickens and a chick the other night we set up our camera and found out who it was.
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    Predator Got Mama & 2 chicks, Now one is all alone

    I had something break into the coop last night and take the 2 full grown chickens I had sleeping on the coop floor along with two 2 week old chicks. The mama was one of the missing chickens and now there is one chick all by itself. I have 18 more hens and 2 roosters that seemed to being doing...
  10. eeckenrode

    Why Won't Some of My Chickens Go Outside?

    I introduced a batch of 8 hens to my exsisting group of 12 hens, 1 rooster a few months ago. My original group seems to dominate and they go out in the run and come back in the coop as they please. The new group will not go out in the run. I have even opened up the main door to the coop to allow...
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