So cruddy news today. I went outside last night decided to do a random head count per usual. I counted 5+ times. I'm missing 3 birds!!! ***? (pardon the language) Automatically I grab my super high powered flashlight/shop light and go on a hunt. Looked in all the nooks and crannies in the garage, nope. Went outside walked their enclosure super slow looking for escape places or evidence of feathers or something. Nope, tight as a drum and no feathers/carnage. Then proceeded to walk the yard looking everywhere just incase. The chicken enclosure is surrounded by its own fence and the yard is surrounded by a 6 foot fence. No birds, no evidence of an escaped bird being scarfed down by my dog (because for sure if they actually made it into the yard they wouldn't last long. As soon as he got let out to potty he'd find them).
Soo... Today I'm racking my brains. I remember 2-3 days ago I noticed the latch on the outdoor enclosure gate wasn't turned and latched. I thought to myself "Wow, I must be stressed and going nuts because that's soo not like me to forget to latch the gate." I hate to say this because Im new in the neighborhood but I'm thinking one of the neighborhood preteens/teens might have stolen the birds. Im really just guessing but I know my outer gates don't have locks. Which I'm fixing that issue today. Here's the good news. My whole property is wired and under surveillance. The whole yard is covered by two different view points. The gates are also covered. So today I'm going to do another pass in daylight, see if I missed anything. Then sit down with some popcorn and a boatload of patience and start watching days and days worth of surveillance footage. I wish I would have noticed sooner because if it wasn't in the last three days Omgosh that's a lot of watching to do! Last head count I did was a week ago. Ugh! Wish me luck!
