Hey All

[BastyPutt]

It has been months since I have been on here, and I had countless messages asking where I was. Figured I post here because it was most fitting.

We went on a 2 day trip and had a relative come over and tend to the chickens, quails, goats, pigs, etc for the time we were gone. We avoid trips for this reason - it is a lot to ask someone to take care of.

To make a really devastating, long story short, this person neglected to come over on the evening of the second night to close the animals and the front gate to the property. This allowed what looked to be 6 to 8 coyotes (cameras) into the property who killed almost everything but the pigs and some adult goats. There were a few chickens who safely hid in the trees, and we had our polishes in a different area, but we had over 80 chickens killed and their bodies left scattered across the property - mostly uneaten.

Anyway, it was emotionally the worst period of time I have experienced in a long time. We have rebuilt quite a bit to this point, but still missing a lot of animals that we loved dearly.

But, in excited to be back here with my BYC friends and talking some chicks with spring in full bloom. I hope you are all doing well.

 

[tlcmurphy]

This is horrible, I’m very sorry for your loss

 

[Patiocoturnix]

It has been months since I have been on here, and I had countless messages asking where I was. Figured I post here because it was most fitting.

We went on a 2 day trip and had a relative come over and tend to the chickens, quails, goats, pigs, etc for the time we were gone. We avoid trips for this reason - it is a lot to ask someone to take care of.

To make a really devastating, long story short, this person neglected to come over on the evening of the second night to close the animals and the front gate to the property. This allowed what looked to be 6 to 8 coyotes (cameras) into the property who killed almost everything but the pigs and some adult goats. There were a few chickens who safely hid in the trees, and we had our polishes in a different area, but we had over 80 chickens killed and their bodies left scattered across the property - mostly uneaten.

Anyway, it was emotionally the worst period of time I have experienced in a long time. We have rebuilt quite a bit to this point, but still missing a lot of animals that we loved dearly.

But, in excited to be back here with my BYC friends and talking some chicks with spring in full bloom. I hope you are all doing well.

That is horrible I’m so sorry for your loss

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

It has been months since I have been on here, and I had countless messages asking where I was. Figured I post here because it was most fitting.

We went on a 2 day trip and had a relative come over and tend to the chickens, quails, goats, pigs, etc for the time we were gone. We avoid trips for this reason - it is a lot to ask someone to take care of.

To make a really devastating, long story short, this person neglected to come over on the evening of the second night to close the animals and the front gate to the property. This allowed what looked to be 6 to 8 coyotes (cameras) into the property who killed almost everything but the pigs and some adult goats. There were a few chickens who safely hid in the trees, and we had our polishes in a different area, but we had over 80 chickens killed and their bodies left scattered across the property - mostly uneaten.

Anyway, it was emotionally the worst period of time I have experienced in a long time. We have rebuilt quite a bit to this point, but still missing a lot of animals that we loved dearly.

But, in excited to be back here with my BYC friends and talking some chicks with spring in full bloom. I hope you are all doing well.

That's terrible, I'm so sorry for your losses!

 

[SilverBirds]

That's awful, I'm so so sorry for your losses.

 

[tranquiliti]

It has been months since I have been on here, and I had countless messages asking where I was. Figured I post here because it was most fitting.

We went on a 2 day trip and had a relative come over and tend to the chickens, quails, goats, pigs, etc for the time we were gone. We avoid trips for this reason - it is a lot to ask someone to take care of.

To make a really devastating, long story short, this person neglected to come over on the evening of the second night to close the animals and the front gate to the property. This allowed what looked to be 6 to 8 coyotes (cameras) into the property who killed almost everything but the pigs and some adult goats. There were a few chickens who safely hid in the trees, and we had our polishes in a different area, but we had over 80 chickens killed and their bodies left scattered across the property - mostly uneaten.

Anyway, it was emotionally the worst period of time I have experienced in a long time. We have rebuilt quite a bit to this point, but still missing a lot of animals that we loved dearly.

But, in excited to be back here with my BYC friends and talking some chicks with spring in full bloom. I hope you are all doing well.

My jaw is still wide open; I’m very sorry to hear this occurred.
But I’m glad you’ve been able to stay strong with progress on rebuilding.

 

[BastyPutt]

My jaw is still wide open; I’m very sorry to hear this occurred.
But I’m glad you’ve been able to stay strong with progress on rebuilding.

Yes - coming up on the scene of the crime was unbelievable - then the following 4 to 5 days looking for animals was worse. We actually found an un-injured 4 week old doeling outside the property 3 days after the incident. She was able to survive somehow (her mother was killed ) in the wilderness without milk. That was a bright spot in the whole deal.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Im very sorry for your losses

 

[fluffycrow]

Oh this is absolutely horrible. I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Losing one bird to a predator is hard, losing that many must be awful.


I'm still at a loss for words as to what would be appropriate to say in this context, so I'll resort to

 

[lagrange chicks]

So sorry, you must love keeping animals because most would of gave up.