A few days ago, I noticed a ton of feathers scattered around inside of one of our six chicken tractors. Thought they were molting.
Sunday morning we had the bedroom windows open and woke up to this weird banging like something was hitting the hardware cloth repeatedly and hard. All of the birds were vocalizing. I ran downstairs in flip-flops and robe while DH stuck his head out of the upstairs window and kept an eye out.
It was a fox, according to DH. It had taken off being I got there but he said that it was a multi-colored, medium sized fox - no mistaking it. And all of the tractors had feathers scattered everywhere. Turns out the birds were freaking out and losing them as the fox tried to rip off the hardware cloth.
And it keeps coming by, as if somehow it can figure this thing out.
The funny thing is, I'm almost glad that it showed up. I'm starting to think that nothing but a mink or something smaller can get into these things and only if they dig faster than I can get there.
And so, I would like to publicly acknowledge and thank profusely my amazing DH who built these Fort Knox tractors in the first place! Not even a sign of damage. Phenomenal.
Sunday morning we had the bedroom windows open and woke up to this weird banging like something was hitting the hardware cloth repeatedly and hard. All of the birds were vocalizing. I ran downstairs in flip-flops and robe while DH stuck his head out of the upstairs window and kept an eye out.
It was a fox, according to DH. It had taken off being I got there but he said that it was a multi-colored, medium sized fox - no mistaking it. And all of the tractors had feathers scattered everywhere. Turns out the birds were freaking out and losing them as the fox tried to rip off the hardware cloth.
And it keeps coming by, as if somehow it can figure this thing out.
The funny thing is, I'm almost glad that it showed up. I'm starting to think that nothing but a mink or something smaller can get into these things and only if they dig faster than I can get there.
And so, I would like to publicly acknowledge and thank profusely my amazing DH who built these Fort Knox tractors in the first place! Not even a sign of damage. Phenomenal.
