We have 7 hens and a khaki campbell duck couple. Recently the duck couple have been bullying our sweet buff orp. The male starts it and others then join in. All of the buffs neck feathers are now gone and she's now isolated herself to sitting on the outside roost to stay out of reach. Today as...
Access is blocked. We have chicken wire covering all sides and buried several inches underground. The spot it had to have gotten in was eroded by the hens dirt rolling. Its completely blockked now. This buff died more than 24 hr after it happened.
On Saturday we had an owl get into our covered run. It beheaded 1 of our RIR and one of our silver laced was also dead but no obvious reason. Stress? The next afternoon all seemed ok but later in the evening I went out to check on everyone and 1 of our buffs was dead. After a stressful event...