I am not sure what is going on with my 1 1/2 yr old hen. I noticed something was wrong when the other girls kept picking on her. Then her wings started looking droopy. I separated her for a few minutes to feed her hoping that if she ate good she would get some strength to fight back. Yesterday I...
We have had a hawk circling for days my best guess is it was what got it. The big girls know what it sounds like and keep an eye out for it. The babies just didn't know better yet.
We let them out around 9 am to free range and then left. Returned home around 230. She was missing which was unusual, so I went looking. The pile of feathers was not even ten feet from the coop. And it was just a bunch of feathers, a few drops of blood and what I think was a toe. We have six 1...