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Took me 3 months to figure out why my hens stopped laying in the coop
I kept finding eggs scattered all over the run, thought it was just a few troublemakers hiding them. Turns out a raccoon had been scaring them off their nesting boxes at night, and it took me 8 weeks of tearing my hair out before I found a muddy paw print near the latch. Has anyone else had a predator mess with their flock's laying routine without actually taking any birds?
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gonzalez.alice5d ago
My neighbor's got 50 birds and she swears by having a couple of guinea fowl mixed in with the flock. They're basically living alarm systems, they'll scream at anything that moves at night. Took her about two weeks to train them to roost near the coop. I know some folks think they're noisy and annoying but honestly for the price of a few extra eggs a week you get free predator patrol. Ngl I thought it was crazy until I tried it with my own setup.
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