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[jeremy]

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Yup! That's the great thing about having a Splash rooster, they only produce Blue or Splash offspring.

 

[dldolan]

My chicks were funny today!

Likes mudpuddles!

Goofy dude with messy face. Yogurt is yummy!

Je suis de Quebec! Zis weather will not stop me! (say out loud with a French accent) Mais non~!

 

[cherylcohen]

I lost 2 hens today, must have happened last night, but since I'm not living there I have no idea how or who did it, a huge buff orp from hinkjc and a silver sussex. orange feathers everywhere but no sign of the sussex so I assume something just carried that gorgeous girl off...what could it have been

 

[jeremy]

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Sounds like a raccoon to me Cheryl, especially if it happened at night.

Are all of your pens covered now? I wouldn't think a hawk would swipe 2 hens but if given the opportunity one might.

Still, raccoons are most likely your culprit. Do you have any gaps or holes anywhere in your pens where a coon could squeeze through?

 

[jeremy]

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Dawn, j'aime beaucoup votre Chantecler, elle regarde si douce et féminine.

That White boy is quite a handsome fella!

 

[cherylcohen]

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Sounds like a raccoon to me Cheryl, especially if it happened at night.

Are all of your pens covered now? I wouldn't think a hawk would swipe 2 hens but if given the opportunity one might.

Still, raccoons are most likely your culprit. Do you have any gaps or holes anywhere in your pens where a coon could squeeze through?

At night we have an automatic door on the coop

 

[jeremy]

Is there any chance, that because it is now staying lighter so much later into the evening, that those two girls might have gotten stuck outside? If the door closed and they hadn't decided to go in yet it's a possibility that a raccoon then might have squeezed it's way into your run and taken them. Especially if you are not there to check that they all go inside every evening at the right time...

I know my Orpingtons stay out until it's nearly dark, I have to go shoo them into their coop most nights!

 

[cherylcohen]

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I have the auto door open till 9:30 and they are all on the roosts by then

chooklet says the raccoon would have left the carcass, she thinks its a bobcat but I've never seen them in our area...

 

[jeremy]

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I have the auto door open till 9:30 and they are all on the roosts by then

chooklet says the raccoon would have left the carcass, she thinks its a bobcat but I've never seen them in our area...

A bobcat would have killed more than just 2 birds and then it would have carried the carcasses off to it's den, a raccoon though would pick off the hens that were easier to get, it wouldn't need but one or two and it most likely wouldn't leave anything but feathers behind either.

Also, is there a giant tear in your fencing somewhere where you can see that a bobcat might have pushed it's way through?

 

[jeremy]

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