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We’ve had chickens for 12 years now. We just moved from NC, so my mom inherited my flock (one of my girls, a crested polish, turned 12 in February. She was from our first group). But we had no mongooses in NC, so this is new territory for me. We just had a privacy fence around our yard and that...

Here’s the run part. The top also has 1” chicken wire across it.

That’s the run part. 1” chicken wire. Top is covered with the wire as well. Bottom is open.

I’m on Oahu. I just got a stray hen and bought a bantam so she’d have a friend. My husband just built a coop and run for them, but now I’m wondering if it will keep mongooses out. It’s got 1” chicken wire on sides and top, but the bottom is open so they can scratch around. Can a mongoose fit...

I just got a stray hen and bought a bantam so she’d have a friend. My husband just built a coop and run for them, but now I’m wondering if it will keep mongooses out. It’s got 1” chicken wire on sides and top, but the bottom is open so they can scratch around. Can a mongoose fit through the 1”...

The three older girls are not laying much, the other five are still pretty steady. I'm in NC and it's still summery here, so all the grass is still green. Only one of the older hens is molting.

I have eight hens, Three are five years old and five are a year old. They've always had nice, dark yolks to their eggs. For the past month or so, they've started to become very light in color, like a grocery store egg. Nothing has changed about their diet. They forage on .25 acres in our...