Bye Bye little ones ....xoxo

[PerfectPoultry]

I'm So so so sorry! Where we're they? Did they look like they were attacked? Sorry again poor babies!

 

[Flock Leader]

What an - unfortunately - timely post for me to read. I just opened the window to see MY dog got loose... pulled a bantam cochin chick right out of her jaws. Another bantam cochin cockerel was found dead.

Time to re-evaluate our dog-restraining method. If we quit free-ranging our feed costs will become huge, but I really don't want to lose more chickens. In fact part of the reason for getting a dog was warding off predators... and really, she has been quite effective at keeping foxes away (we lost our entire original flock to foxes). But now she has become a predator herself.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but one of our chicks got out of our brooder and we NEVER saw it again.