I put 12 eggs in my incubator. This was my first time incubating eggs, only 1 hatches but another make a crack but didn't make it. And since I didn't want that one to be alone I was looking and found 4 guineas that are only a week older. So I bought them and they look good so far.
So I have a broody hen and she has been broody for quite a while but I noticed eggs disappear from under her and I didn't know it it was a snake or a predator and saw this earlier. Is this a predator or the hen eating the eggs for some reason?
The other day a raccoon knawed a hole into the wall of my chicken shed and we patched it up. Yesterday I went back over there to check on them before going to bed and the racoons was in there again. Went and got a gun and went back over and couldn't find him but he was sitting in a laying box...
I went on an 11 day vacation and didn't have anyone check up on my chickens I came back and to my surprise they were all still alive except 2. The grass had grown tall since then and a couple says after I came back I looked out the window and say a rooster who was limping around. I ran outside...