I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and didn't get too roughed up doing any shopping. Went and did some shopping with my brother and daughter, suprised crowds weren't bad at all. Well before we left, I let the kids out to play in the yard since they have been locked up for the past couple of days due to the nasty weather. When we got home one of my roosters wa laying in the yard on his back with feet up in the air. Thought he was dead but thankfully not. Found 7 in the coop all huddled up on the top roost. We started looking around the yard and found tons of feathers, not a good sign I'm thinking. Well we ended finding all but one, have 17 total. With the feathers we found, figured maybe a hawk paid a visit. Grabbed Jesse, the rooster laying on back, and looked him over. Saw some small puncture marks on his back. Put some Blue Kote on them and brought him into the house to keep an eye on him for a couple of days. Well I went out to shut the doors on the coop and found the missing hen sitting up by the nest boxes. Brought her in and checked her out and found some small puncture marks on her. Treated her wounds and put her out with the rest of the kids for the night. She is missing almost all of her tail feathers but otherwise looks good. After looking at the wounds on the two, thinking maybe it was one of the local cats. I thought that I had taken care of any that were brave enough to come in the yard, but guess not. Hopefully Jesse will come through this scrape and be ok. He's like a cat with nine lives, been kicked several times either on purpose(for coming at me or my daughter) or by accident and been scared by something that made him jump the fences and end up in the neighbors yard. When he was picked up out of the yard, he was so calm and never tried to get away or even try to say anything. Still hasn't made a sound. Hope he gets better over the night. Thank for hearing me tell my story. Hope everyone has a good night.
