My chickens have NOT started molting yet. They have been laying about a 13 months. Winter is coming. I am getting stressed.
What happens when the molt and it is cold outside? I live in Maine.
The is a new dog in the neighborhood. They are confined to their large enclosed all sides cage if I am late home. Front yard if I am home but out and about, and free if I have my eye on them or sheba is out watching the leaves fall from the tree. ( she must be a hippie dog)
Well my dog wasn't out so it couldn't have been her. And it wouldn't have been anyway. I finally can leave her outside if I run to the store in the front yard with the chickens because she doesn't get anxious because she has them as company. And she is not a very brave dog, she's even afraid of...
I have had these chickens for 1.5 years. They have never had any trouble. I have a German Shepherd who loves them as friends, and the two Shepherds next door don't bother them either even when they are roaming. Lucy got out (they are escape artists) and when I got home after dark I found her...