I want to waste every coyote on the freaking planet

[Blueline29]

Stopped by my parents' house tonight & received the news that my beloved Buster, the only chicken I've ever really loved, was killed last night by a $$#%^&*@##$% coyote. They've been HORRIBLE lately (gotten probably 8 chickens in the last month+ ), but somehow I always thought Buster would be OK. Devastated doesn't begin to describe how I feel right now. The only chickens my parents have left are the boring, personality-free ones; Buster used to come when called and followed me around the yard like a puppy. My mom's and my voices sound very much alike, and my mom said that sometimes she'd be talking in the barn and would see Buster come flying around the corner, thinking he heard me. She said he always looked kind of disappointed when he realized it was "only" her.

I'm planning on spending the bulk of the weekend hunting coyotes at my parents' place, and I swear to God, I won't be satisfied until I splatter a bunch of them all over the freaking woods.

Thanks for listening, you guys. Nobody else seems to understand that chickens can be pets, and that their owners can be just as heartbroken when something happens to them as they would be if it were a dog or cat.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

I'm so sorry

Always happens to the best of them. Go them them coyotes!

 

[mythkat]

I planned on the same thing this weekend. They got 3 of mine. With the thunderstorms I think a gust caught them and they flew/blew over the 8 foot fence around the run. The only problem is I can't find any .22 long rifle rounds anywhere, not even in Reno. I'm seriously considering a leg trap and the pick ax.

 

[Haley_LinckHillPoultry]

I know how you feel. A fox just got my porch rooster. One of my favorites that used to always sit on the porch and crow. Fox is free game right now.

 

[SC_Hugh]

Blueline29,

So sorry for your loss. Truly special pets are hard to come by.

Too soon for me to tell which one (or more) of my four chicks will win my heart. I am totally attached to all of them after only 3 weeks, but the one that comes to me (and brings the others with her) is favorite so far.

I spent most of all day Monday building a secure chicken run that cost $$, but it isn't Fort Knox yet.

I hope your BYC friends can help cheer you up,

--Hugh

 

[joebryant]

Let me know if you're in a pinch when you run out of ammo. I'll chip in.

 

[MandyH]

I have several that are ALL yours if you're ever down this way LOL!!!!! Seriously though, I have racoons that have killed 9 ducks, a turkey hen AND 2 guineas in the last 10 days. I've bout had enough but I can't get them.

 

[nhnanna]

 

[miron28]

i have a problem with a fox

 

[Blueline29]

Thanks for the kind thoughts, everybody. I just spoke to my mom and I think we're going to try training the current crop of babies to sleep in a coop at night. The others are too ingrained in their ways to convert now (especially the 10-year-old hen); they've always spent nights up in the rafters of the barn with the turkey (how he hauls his 40-lb butt up there, I'll never know). But I think the little guys can adapt, and since most of them should be Buster's, at least there's a little bit of him still around.