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I’m in Southeast Iowa and have Australorp hens and am in search of a rooster.

Raccoon would typically do the type of damage you described, especially removing individual parts like legs/wings/head. There may be other predators that do as well, but between opossum, raccoon, hawk and dog, I’d say the raccoon did it. I have seen chickens that had wings or part of a leg or...

Thanks for your thoughts. She must be a mix then. She doesn’t look as tall (to me) as the game hen photos I’ve seen. I asked at another website that helps with chicken identification, and they thought she looks like an Egyptian Fayoumi. She matches that breed’s size and shape fairly well but...

Thanks! I’m not sure how to describe her size. I grew up with Rhode Island Red and she is definitely smaller than that. Her eggs are pretty small too. She does appear a bit lanky. I’m not sure if that’s her normal build or the result of running wild for half a year or more.

Do you supplement with calcium? When I was a younger and cared for chickens at my parents home we usually figured that soft shelled or leathery, cracked eggs were a sign of insufficient calcium. I also remember it not being uncommon to have a few eggs like that every once in a while after the...

We inherited a chicken coop with the home we purchased last fall. The listing agent said there were chickens but they were gone by the time we saw the house. However, there was a wild chicken (and turkey & peacock) that kept coming around all winter and eventually I caught them in our coop. The...