Hi guys. I am sure this is the 10000th post about this, but we made it through the entire summer with only losing three hens to predation (bald eagle, and who knows). This year, our flock size increased. I don't know if having more hens made us more of a target, but we had a large red fox jump...
Hey folks.
We let our hens free range in our backyard during the day. One morning I went to the coop to open it up, and I noticed she was laying on the bottom of the coop splayed out with her legs off to the left, and it seems like she's displaying some sort of paralysis. She had a large...
Good morning all,
My wife, my two daughters (7 and 3) and I took the plunge into backyard chicken keeping when the Pandemic hit and we were all locked down at home. We live up in a semi rural area in New Hampshire.
It's been a super rewarding experience thus far - we have six Buff Orpington...