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    What got my hen? Hawk? (warning: gruesome photo)

    This is the 2nd hen in a month, no signs of entry under the fence and the carcass was ripped open and eaten in place, not dragged away which I would think a fox or coyote would do? Here's a photo of the aftermath, what do you think? We're in rural Central PA so we do have hawks and occasionally...
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    Re-introducing injured hen to flock

    I had a hen that got mauled by a predator and barely made it. I had her isolated from the main flock for 6 weeks while she mended. This week she hopped out of her pen and was over near the divider to the main coop so I figured she was ready to return (probably lonely all alone). But I get the...
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    Mauled chicken recovery

    One of my little easter eggers got mauled by something (dog, fox probably) and had a huge gash torn in her back and her leg injured (not sure if it was broken or not but she had a bad limp). I seriously contemplated putting her down because of it, I didn't want her to suffer. But others had...
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    Half my hens sleeping in nesting boxes

    Apologies for the poor photo quality, i had to take it in the dark with a cell phone, but it should give you the idea. We have these old metal nesting boxes we hung on the wall for them. About half them sleep on the perch at the front of the boxes, the others like to climb into the boxes to...
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    Lightweight chicken proof wall?

    Our chickens are in a converted horse stall (hardware clothed in to keep em in place) in a barn. I plan to free range em starting soon so I want to let them out of their coop and have a chicken door they can go out into the yard thru. The only thing is, I need to close off a section so that when...
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    How do I set up these nesting boxes?

    See the photo, not exactly like ours but close....these old school metal nesting boxes were left behind in the barn so we'd like to re-use them but we are curious how they should be setup? 1)Is the idea to hang them on the wall? It looks like there are mounts at the top for that. 2)If so...
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    First time with chicks: Gotta couple questions

    1)I followed the directions on these forums for setting up their brooder with proper heat etc. I put a thermometer under the light and dialed it in to a nice 90-95 degree range as recommended. Is it normal for them to huddle in a ball underneath it? They only seem to do it when they want to take...
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    Planning new coop...would love some advice.

    I finally broke down and joined the forums here after lurking for the last year. What a wealth of knowledge to be found, I've learned so much already just reading through the Learning Center and the various threads on topics I was curious about. My wife and I are buying an old farm house with...
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