Here is my best guess as to what happened. There is a pair of Red-shouldered hawks that have a nest in our neighbor's yard. I've never had trouble from them as they are too small to prey on a chicken. They only weigh about 1.5 lbs at most. The hawk parents have a newly fledged youngster who is...
Thanks everyone for your thoughts and suggestions. I found her yesterday deep under a bush. She had been dead for some time. I couldn't see any obvious signs of trauma. I would have done a necropsy but she was too far gone at that point. I'm sad to lose her, she was my most productive and...
I had a fully grown Black copper maran come up missing. They were in my fully fenced yard at around 1:00pm. I couldn't find any sign of a struggle, not any feathers on the ground anywhere. She has never flown over the fence, she can barely flutter into the coop in the evenings. I live in a...
Hello all,
This is Edith, my Speckled Sussex. I "rescued" her from a whole-saler who clipped the beaks of their chickens. Her's grew back but as you can see not quite correctly. My question is, would she benefit from her bottom being filed to a point to better line up with the top? I'm sure this...