Will guineafowl attack rats or predators at night? I noticed since i got them, left over feed is never eating by anything.

Just thought I'd share:
One of our brave little red hens practised some survival skills this past Friday night.
Of course, we did not find this out...

Help me with my crazy hen. I have 14 chickens, no roosters. One hen is in the nesting box most of the day and sleeps in there. Can’t get her out to...

Has anyone tried Pinless Peepers?

It turns out that I have a bully who wants to do a hostile takeover of the Chief Hen position. After isolating her...

Mine like to be outside and their run looks like a mudquire. They look like drowned er chickens!!!!

Linda

Miss Bossy is in isolation for a while for pecking the other hens. Her run adjoins the main run with no access to the coop. I put an up-turned...

Yesterday, I'm pretty sure I witnessed some purposeful crowing from our rooster.
All the chickens were out free ranging for the afternoon. After I...

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Are there times when you feel that you could just smack them? The chickens I have now love to perch up high, so I built their perches...

My 20 something niece moves into my home to look after animals while hubby and I are away. She loves the dogs and has a romantic notion that she...

If you understand French you'll appreciate this take on winter.

I've been putting my chickens in the coop just before sundown - around 6.45 pm recently. Until that time, they've been hanging out in a larger run...

I have a bad case of mean girl syndrome going on. One of my older girls had a very hard molt. She's the tiniest barred rock and lowest on pecking...

Not knowing how chickens think.... in every situation..... does anyone have any idea why a rooster would allow a hen to peck feathers out of the...

We got our 6 new RSL pullets on Sept 27th (should have been the 27th in the first place). They must have really been on the young side because they...

Went out to the turkey coop and found a surprise this morning. A nice round nest full of eggs.

A prime example why we use groundhogs and not turkeys...

I have bantam chicks hatched on July 21
2 of the 3 roosters are doing their little rooster dance around their 7 little sisters!!!
Even trying to...

I have an adult Cochin laying eggs either through the night or early morning. I find them on the floor of the coop under their perch-sometimes...

We had a nasty incident about a month ago.
A mink got into the coop & killed one of my girls.
The Mink had a hold of another hen by the throat when I...

I begin to see the wild survival instinct come if out in my Narragansett Turkeys.

I picked up my flock a week ago. I have kept them locked in their...

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Alright... so I've got 60+ broilers at 5 weeks old. We want them to day range in a fenced yard which to my...

Returned from walking the dogs with a dead cicada for the chickens, but when I went to offer it to them, they were OUTSIDE the run. Some idiot (me)...