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    Should I take him?

    Recently, I lost my rooster and 3 of my older hens, leaving me with 16 hens ranging in age from 4 years to 4 months. Since the rooster left, the girls have been wandering, lost without their leader. I bought a year old tame Rhode Island Red rooster for them, and the younger girls have accepted...
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    How is she still alive?

    Last night, Mr Raccoon got into my coop for the first time. He got my rooster and three hens, one of which is still alive, although I don't know how. Her comb is gone, her scalp is gone. Her eyes are closed but seem to be there, and she is drinking water very slowly and making little sounds...
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    Dead chick

    This morning when I went to check on my broody hen, I found some broken shell in her nest. I took it out, lifted her up, and found a dead chick under her. It still had a bit of the yolk that was not fully absorbed, so it still had a day or two to incubate. I thought the shell I had found was...
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    Bad, Good, Bad

    Woke up this morning to find that one of my broody's eggs had been broken and the embryo was dead under her. It looks like it only had about a day or two before hatching, so I was bummed. Then happy when I discovered that another had hatched successfully! Cute little puff of chick. Then...
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    Mystery Pest

    For the past several nights, I have had a nightly visitor to the run after the hens are in the coop. This mystery guest loves to eat the food, so I put in in a bin with a lid. The mystery guest tipped the bin over and removed or knocked the lid off, once again enjoying a moonlight buffet. It...
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    Name that predator

    I woke up this morning to a dead hen. The coop is a stall in the barn, lined with chicken wire at the top and hardware cloth at the bottom. The attached run in enclosed with welded wire fencing with 2"x4" openings and is covered with aviary netting. The predator went into the coop because...
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    Little Peep joins the flock

    So far, I have bought live chicks and raised them in a brooder. This year, our Golden Laced Wyandotte went broody for the first time. After mysteriously losing her first egg, I popped another hen's egg (Cuckoo Maran) under her, just to make her happy. Little did I know that that egg was...
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    Young squirrel in the chicken run

    Today we found a young squirrel (Eastern Gray) in the chicken run. It can get through the welded wire fence that surrounds the pen. It is still pretty small (head, tail and feet are too big for its body yet), and it keeps going back into the pen. One of the chickens pecked it and it ran away...
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    Grow out pen and introduction to the run/coop

    I have a one year old flock of 7 hens and one bantam rooster. We just got 4 additional chicks, about 2 weeks old. They are in the brooder for a while yet, but I am working on the grow out pen. I was planning on putting the grow out pen either inside of the run or just outside of it so the...
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    Hen survived hawk attack now being shunned

    I lost my first hen yesterday to a hawk. I had 8 hens and 1 rooster, all bought together. They are 9 months old. The hawk killed my RIR, and today I noticed the neck feathers on my Cuckoo Marans are all shredded. No injuries to the skin that I can see. I assume that she escaped the hawk...
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