Dixie Chicks

[Ravynscroft]

So how soon until they run away???

Congrats!

28 days from served day, so the 12th of Aug...

Karmic part is its her cousin that bought their house note and is foreclosing!!

Oh, yeah... and they're down to only 1 chicken killing dog...

 

[Amberjem]

Horrid bad.

So, my veggie yard coop, that I have been using for years with ZERO losses... Nice fence, and I have a net over the top... It is also solid weeds, so great cover.....

Turns out "something" (I think a great horned owl), took 26 grow-outs out of that pen before I noticed.... Left me 6, only 2 girls. There goes the money I was gonna make this year to help pay for feed........

Then, Friday night, that same owl (I am guessing) wedged itself through the tiny open vents on my pond coop, and ate our sweet broody mama and her 4 chicks one month old (two females of a wonderful color), and then this morning I go to the bantam coop and find 3 (the least loved, and least valued, and least valuable) chickens standing up on the high beam that is in the run.

I look around, and all of the beloved (a few 4 year old pets) and highly valuable (my breeding stock from pips and peeps -wheaten Ameraucanas) and beloved chickens and rooster.. All on the ground, here and there, dead.

A stoat (tiny weasel) got in through the 1" by 2" wire fence, bit their throats, drank their blood...then killed the next..... Except for on girl that it ate a bit of, and tried to drag through the fence.....

My three most lovely bantam wheaten girls, two had perfect coloring.

My bantam wheaten rooster....

The tiny little d'anver girl that my kids adored....

Their 4 year old pets that I had promissed that we would keep forever......

All gone.


AND I had just gotten rid of ALL of the grow-outs yesterday.....

I texted the guy that took the bantam wheaten ameraucana cockerels..... An hour after he finished butchering the last one....

Yep... No One else has them in the state of Alaska.

Now I am wondering how I am going to catch the stoat.... Wondering how I can keep the great horned owl from my stock......

I have a mass of baby muscovy ducklings right now...... Today...... Maybe not tomorrow.

That bantam coop was a great coop...it withstood a black bear last year.... Those stoats though, can get in a gap that is one inch square....
Edited by Alaskan - Today at 3:22 pm

 

[Amberjem]

And on the note of good news...


Our awful neighbors got served Friday!!!

your ex family how did they get served?

 

[Ravynscroft]

your ex family how did they get served?

Her cousin bought their house note and is foreclosing due to huge amount of payments back due...

 

[Amberjem]

 

[Amberjem]

Her cousin bought their house note and is foreclosing due to huge amount of payments back due...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thanks, and yes it is... the new neighbors are a wonderful couple that we get along with great!

 

[Outpost JWB]

@Alaskan. Yeah!!! e. I'm so happy for you! I Bet you and I are still sleeping with one eye open.

@RavynFallen glad the new ones are better. Life is too short to have to deal with mean people.

@Amberjem what breed is she? Resembles CCL,

Have a good night all

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thanks @Outpost JWB I agree!!

Hang in there and hope you clear out those varmints soon!

Oh, and I think the hen is the Cream Legbar cross Amberjem hatched from bama's eggs...

 

[Amberjem]

@Alaskan . Yeah!!!

. I'm so happy for you! I Bet you and I are still sleeping with one eye open.

@RavynFallen glad the new ones are better. Life is too short to have to deal with mean people.

@Amberjem what breed is she? Resembles CCL,

Have a good night all

yes she is it's cream legbar/brahma cross
the other is brown leghorn