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Yes Mohawkbrian we have a lot of crows lately. I think I will close the run with netting over the top and chicken wire from the four foot line up to the top, which I will probably make eight feet high. Right now I have four foot goat panels covered with chicken wire. I wanted the panels to hold...

Thanks MohawkBrian, your information is what I was hoping to hear. My run is not closed so the hawk would have no trouble just flying down and helping himself. I didn't think it would be a mammal because of the fact that the chicken had suffered such precise damage. I thought that a coyote...

Well as I have said I don't know what got my hen. I think that the fact that the head was severed and left laying next to the body would mean something to the right person. I looked at the neck and, as I said previously, it was cut nice and clean. I don't know if that would just be a coincidence...

To be clear, she was killed in the run not the coop, I should have added that on this day she finally decided to leave the coop and come out for some fresh air and sunshine and it was to her down fall. On the rare occasions that she did come out over the last few months she would usually just...

That is the puzzlement. In six years I have not lost a bird to a predator and it really has me bugged. I see hawks all the time but they have never bothered the chickens and I do let them out of the run in the fall after my garden is finished and they free range through winter until I am ready...

Thanks Ozark Hen I will try that. I was researching other threads and found one where it was stated that a skunk will bite off a chickens head and leave it. So maybe it was a skunk.

So glad you were able to avoid disaster. I don't want to divert the thread but since we are talking Hawks, I had what I think must have been a hawk attack two days ago. I have an open top run and have had my chickens for nearly six years now with no loss to a predator. Two days ago I came home a...

I like my orps, not only are they friendly to me but they have had about six different sets of 16 week old pullets placed in the coop since I got them five years ago and they never chase or bother the new girls. As each new group is introduced all the older hens, except for the orps, chase them...

Thanks for the warm welcome Sooner. I have not posted much over the last few years but I have sure learned a great deal from this web site, and always follow the Okie's thread.

Loved the picture Buster. I grew up on a subsistence farm down in the boothill of Missouri in the 1950's. That picture sure stirred some memories. I live in the Collinsville area of Oklahoma now, and have for over twenty years.

Good Morning. Hope everyone had a blessed and happy Christmas. We had such a beautiful day here in northeast Oklahoma. Just wanted to add one final comment to this thread. CityGirl said: "If you can safely run heat, then by all means go for it. Just make sure you get a very high quality...

Yeah I hear ya Fog, like I said I think those warnings are basically CYA for the manufacturer. They can't possibly think that everyone who buys their heater is going to spend money to have an electrician come and install a wall outlet 2 feet from where the waterer is going to go, and yet they...

You have to understand that the warning on your heater is based upon many factors that concern the manufacturer. They are trying to cover a lot of bases. I don't want to get into a lot of electrical theory, but some of the things for you to consider are the length that your extension cord would...

QuackerJack, I worry about Hawks as well. My chickens seem to know when they are around, and to date, (four years now) I have not lost a chicken to a Hawk. Sometimes I think it is that the Hawks have not figured it out yet. Recently there was one actually sitting on the garden fence as the...

I agree that lights do not help, and feel, from personal experience, that they probably hurt when it comes to racoons. As a little back ground, I grew up in the country, out in the back of beyond, and hunted a lot. My older brother 'coon hunts to this day and has raised pet coons, and coon dogs...

When I was young we ate a lot of wild game. The only thing I can remember the whole family refusing to ever try again, after our first try, was a 'possum. Now some may say, "you have to cook it the correct way", and perhaps that is true, but we ate coons and rabbits and squirrels and quail...

Thanks Chris for that info, good to know. I have a limited amount of knowledge concerning lead poisoning in wild birds, as my brother was a conservation agent for many years and dealt with Eagles and other raptors and told me about lead poisoning in those birds. That is what made me think of it.

Might consider lead poisoning or some other metal poison. Lead poisoning can cause paralysis in the feet and runny stools. You said they free range so the bird might have ingested lead someway. Just a thought.

I wish I knew how to post pics. Just came back in and one of the little ones was running around the coop. She got herself a drink of water and ran back and hopped up on top of Mom and started pecking Mom on top of the head. Mom was all brisseled up during the time the little one was absent from...

Well I am watching them pretty close and my greatest concern, at the moment, is food and water. She is now clucking to them and one was peaking out from under her wing so I know it is ok. I wish I knew a time frame for leaving the nest for the first time after a hatch. Obviously, if a hen is...