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Most of the girls are a about 2 and about five of them are older and probably don't lay much anymore... The most eggs we have gotten is 12 in a day but in the last 3 days we got 2 then 4 and then nothing today. No changes, they are fenced into 1 acre and sometimes we let them totally free range...

No pips on the other two eggs and she won't get off of the nest to take her 4 day old to eat or drink. So do I remove the other eggs? I have an incubator... do I move the other two eggs inside. Is there a way to tell if they are viable? I don't want the baby to starve.

http://www.qawebsites.com/buyphantomdeterrents.htm I can't get rid of the coyotes. I am losing chickens weekly. Can't seem to get a clear shot and wonder if I should spend $300 fencing or try this?

So its been a crazy week. Sitting in the backyard while the chickens free ranged a coyote ran right by me and took a Silkie. I ran inside for the gun and he grabbed one of my big girls... etc etc. anyway I wanted to replace my chicks lost to the bald eagle and coyote over the last couple of...

So got home and only two Silkie butts and the big girls roaming around. Walked the 4 acres two times before I found a pile of feathers. Couldn't figure out how something got three in broad daylight and not a scratch on anything else. Well my four yr old who has a great imagination and had...

Just curious. My older girls are 15 weeks and my Silkies are 10 weeks. They sleep together in the same coop with no problem but during the day they are in two seperate groups. The older girls started going out 4 weeks before the Silkies and the Silkies joined them to free range about 5 weeks...

So I have 7 nine week old Chicks, leghorn, RIR and misc and 5 Silkies that are about 5 weeks old. The older ones have been going out since 5 weeks. I have a trap door that I open to the coop to let them free range during the day and close at night. The coop is divided in half with the silkies...

Litteraly 3 feet from the coop was what I thought was a deer but when I stopped and looked out the kitchen window again I realized it way a Coyote. It was 3pm and sunny. I screamed and took off out the back door like a mad woman in my bare feet. The coyote froze, looked at the chickens, (who...

I live in a little hick town and we lost power last night around 5pm after finding out it was 4 counties wide and it was going to be awhile I freaked. My babies are only three days old and no heat. Of course we have no heat in the house either. I went out and got them and brought them inside in...

Sooo my husband and I thought we would get some egg layers. I know that we have one leghorn, 1 RIR and the other 5 are 2 black 1 brown and two with the long feathers on their legs (brown) these 7 are all 4 weeks old and get along fine. They have been going outside for 3 days in a 10x40 pen with...