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Posted By: Dave in PA
Subject: Down 1.
Date Posted: 12 May 2022 at 3:04pm
| Yep, we lost a chicken yesterday, found her in the pen. The other hens were going crazy, that is why the wife went out to look. So now we have 7, started with 12. I can't remember when our son got them, but I think 5 or 6 years ago??? Dumb question here, how long is the life of a hen chicken?? I guess I could google it! We did lose 2 in the past few months. |
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 12 May 2022 at 5:38pm
 Funny you posted about your chickens as my Dearly Beloved took this picture of me and my last surviving chicken. My daughter bought 6 for my birthday 7 years ago and she is the last one ! Still lays eggs although she molted back in March and looked rough for quite awhile. But she is all feathered out and acts like a spring chicken!
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Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 12 May 2022 at 8:54pm
------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Dave in PA wrote:Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 12 May 2022 at 9:04pm
| Chickens can get an impacted egg.I lost 2 hens from that. I have a good pen that raccoons can't get into. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 12 May 2022 at 9:21pm
------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 12 May 2022 at 9:55pm
| we also can't keep chickys very long, longest was about 1-1/2 years. coons will get them eventually, when they do come, they will get one every other night. foxes are crafty at getting them too. also...when coons get bored, after they have made their nightly kill, they will kill the rest in the coop or pen just for entertainment. foxes will do the same. usually if the foxes figger out the chickys are out during the day, they will sleep at night and come for them in broad daylight. they like to dig under a pen fence too. usually coons will go over the top of a pen. and yes...a coon can unlatch a door. i love rhode island reds, but they just don't last very long! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 13 May 2022 at 11:36am
How long a chicken lives depends how much you want it. My wife is not a bird person something about feathers. But spends a lots of time and money feeding hummers. They even land on her as she puts more food out.  She cares for all animals even if she does not want to be friends with them. She felt my mothers chickens needed more freedom as the house and pen is small. So after my mothers stroke she took charge. Had to turn them out before she left for work as the rest of us left them penned until afternoon so all eggs where in the nest boxes. But she was counting the days until the hens where gone. So here comes the oldest kid with chicks, cause his "chick of the day" said they where so cute. Mother was not to happy with "her" eldest. One of that batch lived 14 years as she counted every day. Most times chickens are lucky to get 5 or 6 years old.Racoons are real pain if you want to keep chickens. The pen had chicken wire overlapped by a foot or 2 and they learned to slip between. Even caring a chicken off. So you tie it together.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 13 May 2022 at 1:28pm
| the last batch of chickies i had were also turned out in daytime, locked up at night, and for a little added protection i strung a hot wire around the top of the outside pen, it was placed about 5 inches out from the top of the pen wire. the very first night we heard horrible sounds coming from outside....yes we heard the noise in the house! i ran outside and found a coon in between the hot wire and the pen fence, it was getting a good strike each time the fencer zapped! dunno why it stayed there...maybe the shock? i took my .22 and finished it off. heard a few other rucuses after that thru the year, and on thru the years they figgered out how to get them...one atta time til gone. haven't replaced them yet, maybe if i build a regular coop? |
Posted By: Dave in PA
Date Posted: 13 May 2022 at 2:25pm
| Out of the 5 we lost, 2 were egg bound we think, This last one, no idea for sure. The other 2, rather not say, but stress related. For the record, the birds are in a pen, wire fence, with a roof. The coop is enclosed and attached as well. No predators can get in. |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 13 May 2022 at 8:13pm
| Local man raised Pheasants to release. When the Pheasants got old enough to fly a family of Great Horned Owls came for dinner. Mother Owl would swoop low over the pen scaring the Pheasants into flight where they got their heads stuck in the netting. Then the young Owls would land and chew the Pheasants heads off! I don't believe he raises Pheasants anymore! |