***OKIES in the BYC III ***

The fires last week evidently displaced a lot of wildlife. Something got one of my Araucana girls right after that then 2 nights ago something killed and ate most of my beautiful 2 yr old Lavender Bantam Ameraucana boy :-( Him and his brother were in a completely closed up and roofed pen. I found where a possum (probably) could've squeezed through but he'd have had to spend some time finding it. Made me sick to lose him, he was one of my favorites. His brother and him had always lived together. Whatever it was also got ahold of his brother and yanked most his feathers and some skin off his side. I have no idea why it didn't manage to get ahold of the 2nd one. So the remaining brother got to go into a yard with the 4 capons and 15 girls, he's loving it. He keeps flirting with the capons but I don't have the heart to tell him they're not girls.
Then last night right at dark when we locked birds up my husband found this fox in one of the chicken yards!! We both felt really bad he had to kill it but we all know he was there for chicken dinner. I've never seen a fox around here in over 20 yrs so it's got to be the fires that drove them this way.
Here's the Bantam Am I lost and his brother, his brother is a Silver Duckwing (just called Silver in Ameraucana). Neither color is easy to find and both are/were the sweetest tamest boys.
(Below that is the picture of the dead fox, so don't scroll down if that offends you).









(Edited for spelling)
 
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