Yes, it's true. Our first loss. No blood, no feathers - just completely gone! We really have no idea what happened to her. On friday I let them run around the yard for a while, put them all back in their cage and then left for a couple of hours. When I came home there were only 5 in the coop! I thought she was laying, but when I peeked there was no hen in sight. I thought maybe I had forgotten to put her away with the rest of them before I left, but the next day Jeremy found a huge spot in the chicken wire on the back side that had been pulled up. Looks like some animal may have had poor Sally for lunch. We posted a few signs around our block, anyway, thinking maybe I did leave her out and someone found her wandering. No luck so far. So now we have 5!
6 chickens = 5-6 eggs per day.
So far, 5 chickens has meant 4-5 eggs per day. We are losing about 1 per day, which means we should get about 2.5 dozen per week. We only had all six of them for just over two weeks. I will do the math again sometime soon and come up with the cost analysis per egg.
