It was a bad week for my chickens. After waking up three mornings in a row with hens dead in the coop, we decided there was definitly a predataor in our midst. The firt day it had rained real hard so i thought maybe the two that died that day was from exposure. Then i noteced my favorite little rooster gone. After that we had a good layng hen dead, and feathers everywhere. Whatever was getting in there was leaving a gristly mess, something had to be done! We spent the day at my moms having a 16th birthday dinner for my neice, and my little boy was going to spend the night there with my mom. When Mikey and I got home I went into coop cop mode> I was set up with a lawn chair, a bottle of water, a flashlight and a shotgun...I was gonna defend my birds, and lets not forget my 2 guard dogs, my min pin, and my chiuauah....yeah I know this had to be sight. Well I sat out there until a little after midnight, no sign of anything unusual. Then my husband came out and told me that mom called, my son was sick, and i had to go get him. I thought sure enough by the time i get home one of my girls will have met the predator. When Hunter and i got home I went straight away to the coop, and lo and behold all my birds were there. when i came in the house my husband told me I needed to thank my two little Guard dogs, they sounded the alert and he went out, and there were two nasty, snarling possums, headed straight for my coop. The two dogs bayed them up, and Mikey made short work of those two critters. So now the mystery hen killer has met his match. The hens rest easy now, and the chicken coop cops, are on patrol for the next evil critter that seeks to hurt our chickens!
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