Catastrophe in the nest.

[Kris5902]

Well the friend decided they were going to see if he fit in with their chickens. Meanwhile they have kids also, but way more chickens than I have. I didnt really want to eat him...i just wanted him dead or gone. And I wanted to put his tail feathers on something lol

He is a very pretty boy... hopefully the change of scenery will change his attitude!

 

[Perfectnoise425]

He is a very pretty boy... hopefully the change of scenery will change his attitude!

Pretty boys are always the jerks! He has the ugliest face under his goofy hair.

 

[BreanneRN]

Thanks for your support! That's hilarious about your eating order! Wonder what your mutant predator was!? Chupacabra!
I love my dark brahma!I was considering getting a brahma rooster.....I think we are gonna live without a rooster for awhile. My friend is coming over within the hour to help me dispatch him. I'm sad but he really does have to go. My husband wants to just shoot him but with two kids around, we dont really need him running around half dead.

Maybe 8 years ago, they eliminated coyotes from my semi urban area, but I am convinced that not before one bred with a female red fox. The resultant critter appears to weigh about 30 lbs, is a solitary hunter like the fox, and seems to have super powers that include able to leap tall fences with a single bound. The original hybrid closely resembled my daughter's Shiba Inu that she adopted from the dog pound on 5 dollar adoption day, except it was about 2/3 the size. I believe it was a male and because of a size advantage was able to out compete the pure male red foxes for mates and the line continues to survive around here. Not a problem really until I decided to have chickens again last year, and no problems until January of this year when a female had pups and decided to feed them on all my chickens. The EE hens I had were determined free-rangers but would roost in the trees. But the fox coyote thing got smarter and smarter and hunted night and day. I am not sure if it is still out there, I haven't seen it lately. But it reduced my hen population from 10 to 2... Still have a rooster (a pretty nice EE named Johnny) so I am trying to hatch some eggs, but I am not really experienced at the incubation thing, so don't know if that will work or not. Incubator not the best either. Meantime, I have an estimate for chain link fencing and am trying to beef up my coops and cover them. Couldn't keep the EE's in the coop and couldn't keep the fox/coyote thing out. It has back legs like a German Shepherd and can just go up and over without a running start. I really like having free range chickens and had them for a full year before these problems started. They peck around and clean up spills and bugs and grass and weeds and lay their eggs here and there which is nice. I don't have a gun but the neighbors do, but I don't know if they were able to shoot the thing or not. Except for the whole blood sucking thing, I don't doubt it could easily be mistaken for the chupacabra... It is kind of mangy looking, with a pointy long coyote type nose. This one is female, but I know she had a surviving pup this year, probably male, as I have seen it. As to that Chupacabra, maybe this is it. Then again, there is a rumor among the educated that the Chupacabra might actually have been a Thylasine or Tasmanian tiger, that someone transplanted to Mexico in the hopes of saving it from extinction in it's native land... It is said to have gone extinct in 1930, but now there have been sightings in Australia, but nothing confirmed... As to the coyote/fox hybrid, I would like it to be extinct. I miss the pure little red foxes that didn't leap fences and never weighed more than 20 lbs, usually less.

 

[Perfectnoise425]

Maybe 8 years ago, they eliminated coyotes from my semi urban area, but I am convinced that not before one bred with a female red fox. The resultant critter appears to weigh about 30 lbs, is a solitary hunter like the fox, and seems to have super powers that include able to leap tall fences with a single bound. The original hybrid closely resembled my daughter's Shiba Inu that she adopted from the dog pound on 5 dollar adoption day, except it was about 2/3 the size. I believe it was a male and because of a size advantage was able to out compete the pure male red foxes for mates and the line continues to survive around here. Not a problem really until I decided to have chickens again last year, and no problems until January of this year when a female had pups and decided to feed them on all my chickens. The EE hens I had were determined free-rangers but would roost in the trees. But the fox coyote thing got smarter and smarter and hunted night and day. I am not sure if it is still out there, I haven't seen it lately. But it reduced my hen population from 10 to 2... Still have a rooster (a pretty nice EE named Johnny) so I am trying to hatch some eggs, but I am not really experienced at the incubation thing, so don't know if that will work or not. Incubator not the best either. Meantime, I have an estimate for chain link fencing and am trying to beef up my coops and cover them. Couldn't keep the EE's in the coop and couldn't keep the fox/coyote thing out. It has back legs like a German Shepherd and can just go up and over without a running start. I really like having free range chickens and had them for a full year before these problems started. They peck around and clean up spills and bugs and grass and weeds and lay their eggs here and there which is nice. I don't have a gun but the neighbors do, but I don't know if they were able to shoot the thing or not. Except for the whole blood sucking thing, I don't doubt it could easily be mistaken for the chupacabra... It is kind of mangy looking, with a pointy long coyote type nose. This one is female, but I know she had a surviving pup this year, probably male, as I have seen it. As to that Chupacabra, maybe this is it. Then again, there is a rumor among the educated that the Chupacabra might actually have been a Thylasine or Tasmanian tiger, that someone transplanted to Mexico in the hopes of saving it from extinction in it's native land... It is said to have gone extinct in 1930, but now there have been sightings in Australia, but nothing confirmed... As to the coyote/fox hybrid, I would like it to be extinct. I miss the pure little red foxes that didn't leap fences and never weighed more than 20 lbs, usually less.

Are you a writer, you should write a story about this, it would be interesting. That's very odd, I can see how maybe that could happen. It would have me on gaurd..have you ever enlisted animal control or get a trap. I caught a fox trying to catch my ground hog with brussel sprouts hahaha! She was furious. That was actually the only time I saw one out here, but as they say sly is the fox. We are pretty rural but I only have the possum and skunks so far to contend with.
Your chain link..can this critter dig? Maybe you need my nasty rehomed rooster, so far he is giving them the same problems. I am not sure he is alive as of today though!

 

[Perfectnoise425]

I'm so sorry this creature killed most of your birds

 

[BreanneRN]

Are you a writer, you should write a story about this, it would be interesting. That's very odd, I can see how maybe that could happen. It would have me on gaurd..have you ever enlisted animal control or get a trap. I caught a fox trying to catch my ground hog with brussel sprouts hahaha! She was furious. That was actually the only time I saw one out here, but as they say sly is the fox. We are pretty rural but I only have the possum and skunks so far to contend with.
Your chain link..can this critter dig? Maybe you need my nasty rehomed rooster, so far he is giving them the same problems. I am not sure he is alive as of today though!

Animal control doesn't really handle these kind of issues, the people to call for this is Fish and Game. They are the ones that got rid of the coyotes. And the mountain lion that killed 3 of my sheep some 15 years ago, all at the same time... Compared to that, rotten as he is, mutant fox is a nuisance... I have had skunks and possums and more recently a raccoon in my garage. But, I am thinking maybe my neighbor got the fox thing, as I haven't seen it lately... And yes, foxes and coyotes are great diggers... I think your mean rooster would have been dinner by now over here...

 

[Perfectnoise425]

I'm a chicken grandma!

 

[Aunt Angus]

Yay!!!! Congrats!!!!

 

[GoatDragonFarms]

Congrats!

 

[Perfectnoise425]

Thanks! So far I can only see one..its staying underneath her.