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    My aggressive chicken

    I don't have suggestions, but I can certainly identify. I have two chickens. I hand raised them in the house. They did not even go outside until they were almost a year old. When they were about two, one of them (not the alpha hen) suddenly became very aggressive to me. One day she was...
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    She loves me, she loves me not- the agressive HEN!

    Hi Folks, I've only had two chickens my whole life, so I don't know what is relevant and what is not- forgive me if I include too many details. I got these chickens in July and raised them in a box in my livingroom- a Welsumer and a Rock, both hens. By Christmas, they were bigger, but it was...
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    How long have they been out there?

    Thanks for the replies, everyone. We did have our first cold snap a few nights ago, but I'm going to try the cold water test. Again, thanks very much. This is the third time I've turned to this community for help, and the third time I've gotten it far quicker than I thought I would. I hope...
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    How long have they been out there?

    Hi everyone. I have two chikens, only one of which is laying age. I found this out because I locked her up one day and got an egg as a reward! Since then, she's been free ranging and sleeping in doors while I make the coop & run more secure. So, yersterday I found a pile of eggs. I don't...
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    Any advice? They will be alone for a few days...

    My set up isn't that big. I've got two chickens, and I live in central jersey so the only predators I have would be 'possum, skunks, raccoons, and the occasional fox. I saw a cayote once a few years back but I think he was just passing through. There were several sightings in a two week...
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    Clucks, crowing, or something else?

    Sometimes it's a purr, sometimes it's louder. Same sound, but the volume seems to convey happiness or grumpiness. Almost like a kid whining when its loud.
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    Use my loss as your wake up call

    Im sorry for your loss and VERY grateful for your sharing. I'm still too scared to leave my chicks out over night. I actually built a sleeping coop in the livingroom.
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    Any advice? They will be alone for a few days...

    Thanks for the advice. The coop is about four square feet (maybe a little more) total, not including the two laying quarters. Whatever the case may be, all these nightmares have convinced me to move the coop into the garage and make a small run from my tractor cart. I'll have to cage a dome...
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    Any advice? They will be alone for a few days...

    Ok, I thought I had a great set-up. Small coop, big run, chicken-wire all around and into the ground- everything I can think of. But what I'm reading on this board scares the hell out of me! I put them in the coop-run for the first time today, got home after dark and saw a skunk hanging...
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    Clucks, crowing, or something else?

    Thanks for the help! Here's Godzilla in all her (his?) glory-
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    Any chance they are still alive?

    I'm sorry to hear that Mistari. You have my sympathies. Since that day, Godzilla and Mothra have been coming home faithfully. I built a coop and run, and wanted them to try it out yesterday morning, but forgot and put them out as I always do. Last night I got home and Mothra had already made...
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    Clucks, crowing, or something else?

    I have two chickens I got as peeps back in July, a production (I think) and a plym rock. The Plym, Godzilla, has always been bolder, friendlier, generally more outgoing. Now that I'm going away for a weekend, for the first time they will be left alone. They've been free-range up until now and...
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    Any chance they are still alive?

    I searched the house once again before leaving for work, again nothing. Left food out in the standard place. Just as my son came out with his school bag, he yelled, "PAPA!!! CHICKENS!!" They came running across the lawn from the neighbor's yard as fast as they could and made a bee line for...
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    Any chance they are still alive?

    Just after dawn now, and no chickens. I spend a good deal of the previous evening with a flashlight looking up in the trees. There was a cold snap last night, which would have been new to them since they sleep in the livingroom. I will leave the food and water out in the same place I always do.
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    Any chance they are still alive?

    Thanks for the shockingly upbeat comments. I'm new at the chicken game. I didn't know what to expect but I had the creeping feeling they'd already gone to the big run in the sky. I've been outside and around the house with a flashlight multiple times with no luck. I was expecting the...
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    Any chance they are still alive?

    I have two chickens- pets, really. I have a small cage in the house where they sleep every night, and I put them out in the morning when I go to work. Every night, when it gets dark, they show up on the window sill and tap on the glass. I bring them in and give them some treat, and put them...
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