Both good candidates, specially since the guy up the road raised mink for years (but hasn't for years) and turned them loose when the bottom fell out of the hide business.
Yeah, when the skunks killed my 50 chickens, they were all ones I raised and I hatched most of them. They didn't even eat them just locked on to their backs behind the wings and drank their blood. I was sobbing scooping up their bodies when my son found me and sent me back inside. Later when I came out after passing out for a few hours, I was examining them as there was no blood but I finally found the wet spot with 4 canine marks. As I checked each one, I found the same mark. They went into a killing frenzy and just slaughtered my birds.
As a rule, Brahmas lay about 140 a year, Cochins a little less.
I saw one in the woods while deer hunting many,many years later, but have never seen another.
I guess I am not the only crazy chicken lady. Lol
You know you love chickens when....
You bring your lonely injured guy into the living room so that he can hear voices. I'm cheeping to him too. His wound has scabbed up good and he's eating a drinking. Still scratching a bit but now that it's scabbed up it looks okay, hopefully he won't scratch the scab off.
