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I found the feather spill from my missing chicken. It was just outside the fence, in a place where I have found it missing before, when it was trying to get back inside. I looked in that place last night for it, and I don't remember seeing feathers then, but it was dark,and maybe I missed it...

I'ave had my chickens for a year, 11 chickens that free range in my acre yard (with plenty of cover) and I have never lost one yet, but late yesterday one went missing. I wasn't too worried as I have a couple of problem chickens that sometimes will work on finding a way over or under the...

I have eleven hens (four are egg laying, the other six are holding off till spring), that free range all day in my fenced acre and nine of them go into a coop at night. Two of them -- a silver campine and a golden campine, have been perching in a tree, resisting all my efforts to catch them at...

My 21 week old red stars have all started laying - I have 3 and have been getting 3 eggs a day for the last week - they are pretty much laying in the same spots. I have 3 RIR that are a week or two younger. Two don't have that bright red comb, but one is cherry red. I don't think any of them...

For one of my five month old Red Star hens. They are just starting to lay. She and a friend of hers somehow discovered a way out of the yard (six foot fences) for the first time on Sunday, naturally jusst as I was due at a humane society event. I caught them and put them back inside the fence...

I have a coop for my birds, but they have free range of my acre fenced yard during the day. They have just started laying -- I got six eggs today -- I have 3 hens with bright red combs and three as old but the combs aren't so bright red, and 5 16 week old birds that probably aren't laying yet...

I have a golden and a silver campine pullet -- both are about 12 weeks old. Unlike the other fifteen chickens I have (RIR, Red Star, Black Star, Buff Orp) the silver campine is very troublesome in that she never wants to sleep in the coop. It is the silver campine that is the problem child...

I'm looking for a hopper feeder to hang on the side of a coop wall, or something like those PVC feeders with the round holes in the L side of the pipe. All I can find in feeders is the kind that has the white round hopper and the red pan below. I'm fed up with that, because it takes up so much...

Does anyone have recommendations for an automatic door opener and closer for a chicken coop?

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I'm looking for someone to board or petsit my chickens at the end of July for 2 weeks. Food supplied. Will pay in cash or offer 4 16 week RIR pullets in trade.

I need to be away 2 nights and 1 1/2 days. I had arranged two weeks ago for a licensed insured supposedly professional pet sitter to come and let the chickens out of their coop during the day, and lock them up at night (they are yarded, not in a run, though they have a small pen attached to...

I have seven RIR pullets, they are about 7 weeks old and cute as buttons. They are pretty friendly for chickens, and hang out around the porch all day, and free range through the yard all day and are smart enough to stay under cover -- though I have a lot of trees and bushes to help that. The...

I know snakes are a problem for chicks and eggs, but are rat snakes, etc, a problem for chickens? And at what age are chickens large enough to go after the snakes rather than the snakes after them? I'm concerned about them getting inside a chicken tractor.

I have to go away from a Friday night to a Sunday afternoon. normally, I let my ten seven week old chickens out to free range during the day, and close them up in their coop at night (it's a chick-n-barn with a yard on one side and a 4 X 3 wire pen on the other. This is more or less...

I'm trying to get an idea of what people have and what I should have. Presently I have 3 7 week old Red Star chicks and 7 six week old RIR. These free range all day, and were being kept in the house at night. Last night they spent their first night in a chick-n-barn, crowding themselves into...

Does anyone have one of these? Any opinion on them?

My chicks (6-7 weeks) are foraging most of the day now. They do have chick starter in their coop. And they have grit. This may be a stupid question, and I don't have plans to pen them up anyway, but I can assume this is okay as a diet? The yard isn't fertilized or weed killed, and it is full...

All my chicks aren't hanging around their coop, but hanging around my back door and perching in the bushes around it. I'm a little puzzled about that. Is this normal chicken behavior? They have an acre of well covered ground to roam in. Half the time they are climbing the steps to come in my...

I have one EE chick who is sleeping standing up. Is this a neurological problem, or a sickness? The other four chicks in the group sleep the normal way. Pat