I got 7 silkies in April. 1 died in July. 1 started laying consistently in August everyday. Now mid-september we started getting about 4 per day. This morning a coyote killed 3,2 are ok, and 1 is missing probably dragged off by the coyote. Searching for 1 i checked the hen house, not in there...
We had 6 chickens(about 6months old), 4 were attacked one morning by a coyote. We only found 3 bodies, so we checked the chicken house to get a count of survivors. There was 1 egg in the nesting box that I brought in. While cleaning up the yard we closed the 2 remaining chickens in their house...