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One of my hens, haven't determined who, is laying a thin shelled egg. there's been at least four or five. Everyone else's shells are fine. Wondering if it can be related to two of them getting their tail feathers ripped out by a dog coming onto the property. They are making new feathers.

A few of my hens just started laying within the last couple weeks. Today I found this big oblong egg with what looks like a smear of blood on it. Is she ok? Pic is of the size of all rest of the eggs in comparison.

Very excited, I got my first egg! This is my first experience with raising chickens.

Trapped a opossum last night. So many threats.

And mine are 16 weeks old. They don't seem to be alarmed/scared by anything. I thought maybe they'd go under the coop if they saw something.

Thanks Mary that's what I was thinking, the heat index is 106 today so I had to let them out, we have a coop on a trailer that we can move so there's no yard for them to be confined to unfortunately. I'm just going to keep a close eye, the seem a little more timid than usual today.

I'm so angry. I feel like my hands are tied and now I have to keep them up.

Problem is I can't trap it unless I'm suffering from multiple predators. This is what I nearly walked right into yesterday and it wouldn't be scared away until my cat tried to attack it.

I'm assuming the best thing I can do in the meantime is keep them up until I get something built. I just prefer them to roam. I have a live trap set and nothing has been caught.

I'm so sorry I know what you're going through. I've just lost three in three days. This is my first flock and my first losses. Mine roam free all day as well. I am at a complete loss as to how to prevent another attack, today they are staying up because yesterday I had to witness it and spend an...

Now I'm thinking my neighbor has alpacas, could they be that much help against predators?

Thanks everyone. It has now taken two hens and my rooster in three days. Yesterday I witnessed it, it's probably gonna have to go but I'm not willing to say what it is. My coop is very secure, but they just roam around the yard in the day. Apparently I'm going to have to make serious changes to...

I lost my first chicken. The flock free ranges all day and then they put themselves to bed in the evening and I go shut the door to the coop. I guess in the busyness of the day I forgot to shut the door last night. When I went to let them out this morning I was shocked to find them in the yard...

Thanks a bunch everyone. I just wanted to be sure. He's nice, we live in the country, I think he can stay. :)

I was supposed to have all females so I have been denying that this could indeed be a male for sometime now. I need confirmation from people more experienced, this is my first flock. These are two of my 13 week old EEs. One very male looking one not so much. Thanks. [/IMG]ht/400[/IMG]

Hi I'm pretty new to chickens, I have a flock of 12 week olds 8 barred rock and 7 EE hens, hopefully. I have learned a lot from reading here and thought I should join. Currently trying to determine if one is a roo.