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Sorry to hear about your hen, but glad she survived this. Sounds like your only options are to keep the hens confined unless you can be out there with them, until you can build them a run. Otherwise, let them out and take your chances.... can you provide them shelters and bits of cover when they...

Yikes, what a mess. Hope she pulls through okay. I prefer to think Littlejohn was enraged, not terrified, but we tend to anthropomorphize and project our own emotional states onto our animals. I'm usually pretty calm and laid back, but if anybody messes with what's mine, I'm a raging dragon. So...

Mercy, no! $50 for a chick!?! Must be exotics. I have purchased from Meyer Hatchery in Ohio but this time I went with Cackle Hatchery here in MO so they won't be in transit so long. Because I don't purchase very many, they run around $3.50 each. A started pullet would cost a lot more, but...

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Thank you! Glad you didn't lose any of your Silkies! We've ordered some day-olds, Black Australorps and a Black Jersey Giant to arrive mid-February. I'm really looking forward to adding a BJG rooster to my flock, but it'll be months before he'll be a good "wing man" for Silverwings. Guess...

Yes. Thank you. :hugs

Well it coulda been then. It's been extremely cloudy and foggy around here for what seems like weeks. I keep telling myself I like it so I don't go mad. Wait. Might be too late.... :oops:

An owl wouldn't have been hunting at mid-day, would it?

Well, so much for that idea. March is when the eggs are laid around here; mid-July is when the birds leave the nest. I can't keep my chickens in the little pen that long. Plan B. And Plan B is .... I don't know.

Thanks. Had a RTH earlier this summer. Kept the birds penned up a week or so and it moved on. Might have been the same one, I suppose. Hmmm. Could it be nesting? How long till it hatches its young, then the young fledge and move on? That's how long I have to keep my birds safe.

Thanks. No, I don't think a coyote can get into that big yard the chickens spend most of the day in, at least it's never happened in 10 years. Gracie, our Sheltie, does a good job keeping coyotes off the property. Pretty sure it was a hawk.

Thanks. He would have been a year old about the first of March. He was one of three cockerels that showed up in a batch of 24 pullets (I know there will always be a couple) and I decided to keep him because his two brothers, though prettier, were even bigger jerks than he was at adolescence. He...

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Thanks. They're not pets, but you do get attached.

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No pics, just a somewhat graphic description, so if this might trouble you, you may excuse yourself now. We don't lose birds often so this surprised me, it was during daylight hours, probably between noon and two pm. We are isolated, no near neighbors, so not a dog. Conditions were quite cold...