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  1. Icantraisechickenshelp

    What should we do?

    We have 10 female hens trapped in a tiny cage that is so smelly we can't take it anymore. They are "teenager" chickens. None of them has laid yet, although I expect them to soon. Since we have so many (Don't blame me... The more chickens, the cheaper right? So I bought 15 because it was a good...
  2. Lonewolf5d

    Australorps on the chopin' block

    Thinking about culling a fair bit of my flock. I keep finding advice on HOW to cull a bird, but i never see if there are any tips to the setting them aside before the culling. I'm pretty sure that i won't treat them like crawfish before the boil; where they are set in running water to purge, but...
  3. ben0125

    Will a hawk eat my hens??

    I am thinking of releasing my hens we got last week soon but I'm worried about a hawk around our house. We live in a rural area on 5 acres so hawks fly around a lot. We have some hens around a year old I believe and want to know if a swamp harrier hawk would be able to pick up our chickens. We...
  4. Sunshine Flock

    Examples of how predators get inside a chicken run and coop

    We had a coyote come within ten feet of grabbing a chicken. They were free ranging, and we're rural in the woods. It was quite amazing to see a crouching coyote like that, ready to spring, and a miracle I saw what was happening in time to yell and scare off the coyote. But with the chicken run...
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