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  1. Cindy

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    Oh no! Have they all been eaten? Here I thought you guys were just living the fresh egg high life over there!

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      We have been, and it’s been wonderful. Until the local predators of the sky decided they could just sit in our backyard and wait for a chicken to walk by!

      I feel sorry for the last lonely one, but at least she’s learned caution and knows to run quick to hide under the deck or in the coop. She’s also a great egg layer, which some of the others were not, so I suppose there’s that to be grateful for. 🙂

  2. Cindy

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    I guess I didn’t realize that a full sized chicken could be picked off so easily by a passing bird of prey. A chick, sure. But a hen???

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      Yeah, we had to see it to believe it. Once we started looking around online, though, we found it’s a commom problem for chicken keepers. The solution we’re going with (when we get more chicks in the spring) is raising a turkey or two with them and some guinea fowl, as well. Apparently those birds have better survival insitincts and will watch out for the bird brained chickens. 🙂

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