Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

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Well we found the burrow......found one of the girls outside of it.....stomach torn open.....
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and the burrow about 3 ft from it. BF thinks the fox and kits are inside eating the other one and i just heard a gun shot. So I'm thinking he's taken care of the problem. Yes it breaks my heart to take an animals life....but dammit she took my girls!!!
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Right in front of me!
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Aw Debby, that is just so sad. free ranging is always a risk, but in the rain it's even higher. one of the main reasons why I don't let mine out even in a drizzle.

the above little hen is new to my flock. arrived today. she's the last of her flock, picked off one by one, by a hawk or a fox... poor pretty little hen... her previous owner is just too heartbroken to continue keeping chickens right now... she'll do fine, very sweet and tame. I want to put her with Brutus.
 
Thank you Cheeka.....I now know, albeit I learned the hard way......our feral cats seemed to keep the critters away, the one that was I think doing all the hard work, got hit by a car....so that's probably why the fox came back....I am sorry to hear about the other chicken keepers flock as well.....it's so hard.....We are hoping a friend of ours has enough to let us have one to keep Gladys company until we can start over......sigh...........I just can't get Endora's trying to escape out of my head....she was running back to me when the fox grabbed her again....
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And your new edition is beautiful...I know she's found a good home
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The husband of the sister of an aunt (of a sister of a brother of a neighbor of the milk man of the ...
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) said my girls would begin laying in mid July. He thought he was being educational. He is the same one that believes any chicken lays white eggs when kept in the coop, brown eggs when free ranged (the U.S. definition, As in they get outside, and have dirt) green eggs come from white chickens with a ring around the neck, and "maybe a black chicken with a ring around the neck can lay blue eggs".
Anyway, Melissa has a red comb and wattles. The others are coming along... Of the pullets I can even see a comb on.
The flock is getting used to me. No one ran inside when I went to open the run door to offer treats. Steven and Reba actually came to the door. I don't think they were running for the coop. That isn't like them. It is like Bonnie, who never went in, and was preening and exploring near me.
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All six chickens in one shot!
 
Great looking group of musicians chicks you've got there! But all that dirt... they're all going to lay brown eggs now!
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There's a thread that's about the craziest things people say about chickens. You have a good addition.
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lynnc1120 said:
Quote: Hope you find her a friend. I have two pullets that I'm integrating into a larger flock. They sleep in the garage at night, and I put them out in the morning, one at a time (they are quite large!). Anyway, the first one out gets frantic and starts squawking like like she's being murdered, just in the time it takes me to get her buddy from the garage. She does not want to be alone! Such a drama queen! Just like us, they are designed to be social. Solitary confinement is punishing.

What do you think happened to the two that went missing? If something got them, your last one is in danger because predators will return.
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