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Have had chickens for years. As a matter of fact, I just moved the coop today and am tripling the yard size in preparation for adding 12 more hens to the flock. Currently have Barred Rocks, Amercuanas, Orpington, Dominique and a game chicken. We have a good bit of property and let them free range each day but do lock them up each night. We have lost many over the years and it sucks but that is just the way it is. The wors loos I hade was on a Saturday morning around 6:30; I let the mout and went back inside for some coffee. My Labrador started barking and running off and back onto the porch. When I stepped outside I heard coyotes yelping and grabbed a shotgun and ran toward the barn...within 5 minutes, we lost 7 chickens and a huge rooster. I found five but it was too late. Only one hen made it and it was hours before she would come down from the top of the barn...poor thing called and called for hours looking for her flock.
We have also had something get into the coop when I forgot to close the yard gate and eaten the heads off two hens; just the heads.
Chicken are great and a lot of fun to watch. We will sit and watch them some afternoons referring to it as "chicken T.V..
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1986 3.2 Carrera
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