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    Mystery Predator....

    Came home from the grocery store to all my hens running free. I keep an old pallet leaned against the doorway to the coop to keep my sheep out of the coop, the pallet was right were I left it. Inside the coop I found the gate latch bent (door opened inward) and wide open. I found a decent amount...
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    Roxy, my feather eating hen...

    My flock of 11 has one hen that eats feathers. She plucks the downy feather's off the other girls' behind and eat them! 2 of my hens are almost completely bald back there! Many of them have patches of missing feathers and I think she is the one behind it. I finally isolated her today I got tired...
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    First timer with "meat birds"

    Well, our Roosters have reached 'that' point. My husband and I are going to be processing them this weekend. It's my first time but he does have experience from when he was younger. Anyway, we have 4. 2 are Barred Rock/Americana crosses. The other 2 are Americana/Jersey Giant crosses. How are...
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    Trapping foxes

    Anyone have experience live trapping foxes? I have a trap set out with a beef bone with meat suspended and secured with wire. Where should I set the trap? Near the coop or where he attacked my chickens? Or near a fox hole (not a den) under a fence? Any advice will be greatly appreciated...
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    Large cat!!

    I was just out at the coop in the dark and was charged by a very large cat! Scared the living **** outta me!! This is the girls second night out in that new coop. I need help figuring out what he was and what to do with him and my chickens! Looking at google images he looked EXACTLY like a lynx...
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    Laying eggs on a roost?

    I am fairly new to chickens and my 5/6 month old white and red rocks are new to laying (I have 8 total). I've had them in a chicken tractor for about 2 months, a week and half ago I started letting them out to free range and they did great! Ate bugs, explored, went home mid afternoonish. 3...
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