I am so livid right now. This last weekend we had 2 great pyranese pups come into our yard. We found a number on their collar called the owners, and a few minutes later they were coming to get them. In the meantime they were chasing our free range chickens and we didn't want to let loose our...
One of my baby chicks I hatched myself was injured by one of our roosters who got overzealous.
She is still a very small pullet and when he tried to get on top of her he ended up crushing her head into the ground (and if he wasnt a bantem rooster and so small I would have butchered him right...
Woke up this morning to feathers all over the yard....coyotes got my Tom turkey and hen, and all the eggs, because they weren't cooped, great.
Go in the coop to check on the chickies and one of my polish chickens came nuzzling against me, her eyes are all swollen and it looks like she got bit...
I just had to rant
We woke up this morning to feathers everywhere, coyotes had gotten our Tom, and our hen who was nesting, and all the eggs. Looks like Tom put up a fight, but it wasn't any good.
And to top it all off, we had a baby turkey in the coop (the big guys were free range) who died...
so....
we got 5 chickens last July already full grown and laying, they are free range but come in the coop at night and lay eggs in their boxes
in early March we moved our new little chiclets into the coop with them and all seemed well, but we noticed about 2 wks ago that egg production had...