Listen to your girls!

[Living_Legend]

What round did you use?

.17 hmr
Savage Rifle. I've cleanly hit targets the size of a dime 100 yards away with this thing.

 

[TwistedSteel]

Myself I mostly use subsonic 22lr ammo. Quieter and more accurate in my guns.

 

[LoveMyChickenBabies]

So glad that they are okay! I heard my girls squawking one night and there was a raccoon eating one of the hens. Let's just say that hen got her revenge a few seconds later!

 

[WthrLady]

I like my vertical defender rifle mount by the door. That said, I don't have kids running around the house. Well none that don't shoot as well.

 

[Living_Legend]

I like my vertical defender rifle mount by the door. That said, I don't have kids running around the house. Well none that don't shoot as well.

Lol.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Too bad for the fox, but great for the hens. I second the suggestion of getting the pelt tanned, or seeing if anyone in the area wants the fox for the pelt. As for the rest, maybe chuck it into the woods somewhere? Find something to do with it other than throwing it in the trash to rot in a landfill, it's a shame for it to go to waste.

 

[WthrLady]

I agree. Listening is a key. One night the girls were making such a fuss near dusk that we could hear it 100 yards away, through closed windows. They were coming unglued! Not seeing anything obvious we sent the boy out to see what the issue was, trusty .22 in hand. He went out and every hen in the run was pressed up to one wall and still making a fuss. He looked around. There was nothing IN the run or the coop. So he started walking around the coop to see if he could find anything.

He started working is way around and around in the coop in ever larger circles, the girls still screaming away while looking out the same side of the run. Then he found it. Opossum. A whopping 9 inch long, including tail, baby opossum. We figured it fell off mommy as she waddled across the pasture, loaded down with more baby's. She didn't even miss this one. I picked him up by the tail and hung him in a tree at the bottom of the hill.

Hens crack....me....up.

Another big scream fest was a baby 6 inch bull snake. You'd have thought it was a python....at least 20 feet long.

 

[Living_Legend]

Too bad for the fox, but great for the hens. I second the suggestion of getting the pelt tanned, or seeing if anyone in the area wants the fox for the pelt. As for the rest, maybe chuck it into the woods somewhere? Find something to do with it other than throwing it in the trash to rot in a landfill, it's a shame for it to go to waste.

It is currently chucked 50 feet into the woods AKA I live on 5 Acres and I'm surrounded by about a hundred acres of woods and cow fields so nothing like this would ever go to the landfill for me

Tanned and the other words and suggestions people are saying he's out of my league meaning I just don't know anything about that

 

[Living_Legend]

I agree. Listening is a key. One night the girls were making such a fuss near dusk that we could hear it 100 yards away, through closed windows. They were coming unglued! Not seeing anything obvious we sent the boy out to see what the issue was, trusty .22 in hand. He went out and every hen in the run was pressed up to one wall and still making a fuss. He looked around. There was nothing IN the run or the coop. So he started walking around the coop to see if he could find anything.

He started working is way around and around in the coop in ever larger circles, the girls still screaming away while looking out the same side of the run. Then he found it. Opossum. A whopping 9 inch long, including tail, baby opossum. We figured it fell off mommy as she waddled across the pasture, loaded down with more baby's. She didn't even miss this one. I picked him up by the tail and hung him in a tree at the bottom of the hill.

Hens crack....me....up.

Another big scream fest was a baby 6 inch bull snake. You'd have thought it was a python....at least 20 feet long.

Either way it is a good thing the fact that we hear a sound that's not normal from them they are asking us for help

 

[lena_]

Nice work! I'll always race outside if I hear my chickens making any noise that's out of the ordinary. My birds free range, and I've lost enough members of my flock to hawks to know the warning noises. That's one less varmit to worry about.
Good job.