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Lindseyfj
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- Jun 27, 2017
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We’ve always had owls around here, and I noticed a couple of them hanging around their area they run in lately. I always lock up my hens before dark. But last night I was later than usual. My mistake, but lesson learned. I just hope she survives any trauma or injury she may have. Might sound crazy but I enjoy seeing her green eggs she lays for me!!Your hen was lucky then.
And that was one bold owl.
Screech owls are small, a bigger owl would have carried her off.
I’ve lost several chickens in the beginning to different predators.
The surviving chicken learned, and taught the offspring. As result, I haven’t lost any in a very long time.
(I don’t mind so much loosing a chicken here or there to a wild animal = circle of life. What got/gets me, is roaming pets breaking into my pen/coop and killing every single bird, just for the heck of it. Which has happened to me twice!)