We heard alarmed clucking from our chickens late last night and being as we're rural, my husband went straight out with flashlight and big ole stick.
A raccoon had managed to bust into the coop and was trying to drag away one of the chickens.
Raccoon was chased off, his/her chicken dinner...
This time a rooster has shown up. We think he's a stray also, when we were trying to find the owners of our white chicken, a couple of people told my husband that there was a rooster running free in the woods nearby, and he apparently finally tracked down the hens.
So... he looks kind of like a...
On Friday night at about 10:30, I heard a noise that I at first thought was the feral cats bickering. A few seconds later I realized it was a chicken!
"Honey, there's a very upset chicken out there!" I told my husband.
"Ours are in, and I counted them," he said. When I insisted, he gave me the...
We were so excited I just had to come and post a picture!
I'm a little surprised, those eggs seem more like large/extra large rather than the medium we expected, but then again, the girls are very healthy and very large themselves, LOL!
My neighbor has tried to keep ducks, chickens, and turkeys every year since I moved here and lost them all to predators. A huge part of the problem is her coop just isn't sturdy, this last set of birds were lost to predators who came right through the floor.
We don't want to make that mistake...
This is Charcoal and three of the girls and the compost pile with freshly-removed litter on it.
This is Arioch--I grabbed the camera because he was lying down and there were about four chickens foraging around him. My roommate didn't realize I was snapping a picture, and when he came over of...
I'm Zola, I live in Weston, WV, and we have a flock of Buckeyes, they were offically six months old today.
I'm very much enjoying this forum, there's a lot of good info here!