Cetawin
Rest in Peace 1963-2021
After speaking with speckledhen on the phone a couple mornings ago, we agreed that is was a really weird situation so I wanted to pass on the warning/story.
Early morning, 2 days ago, I am standing on my porch with my first cup o coffee for the day and I hear my neighbor's flock start going off, my rooster is alarming and my girls are running for cover. Seconds later I hear my neighbor yell for his wife to bring him his gun. So, I sprinted inside, grabbed my gun and went running to the fenceline (where our coops are about 75 feet apart), bathrobe flapping in the breeze around my fuzzy slippers. This is the scene I saw when I got to the fence...
2 boar coons on the outside of his run, one on each side, his rooster, Brewster has gotten his girls and the youngsters inside the coop and he is charging the fence at one of the coons. The other coon is reaching inside the run and trying to untie the danged ties holding the double layer of chicken wire to the chainlink. Meanwhile, I cannot get a shot off at the coon for fear of hitting Brewster so my neighbor's wife has reached him with his gun and he drops the coon and starts running towards the other side towards me. Brewster immediately starting charging the coon by me and hitting the fence and the coon was busy trying to grab him through the wire. He dropped that coon.
The amazing part of the situation...those two coons or just one of them had untied/unhooked the hotwire from the plastic connector! Their prints were all around the post holding the connector where the hotwire was removed. As soon as my neighbor put the wire back up, it was hot. So these psycho coons were getting hit by the hotwire while they were disconnecting it, just to try to get a chicken dinner.
So, those with hotwires...check your hotwires and make sure they are secured to the connectors/holders each day.
Here is the brave Brewster and some of his girls (They are molting so excuse their ragged looks at present...they are a beautiful flock once their molt is finished)
Early morning, 2 days ago, I am standing on my porch with my first cup o coffee for the day and I hear my neighbor's flock start going off, my rooster is alarming and my girls are running for cover. Seconds later I hear my neighbor yell for his wife to bring him his gun. So, I sprinted inside, grabbed my gun and went running to the fenceline (where our coops are about 75 feet apart), bathrobe flapping in the breeze around my fuzzy slippers. This is the scene I saw when I got to the fence...
2 boar coons on the outside of his run, one on each side, his rooster, Brewster has gotten his girls and the youngsters inside the coop and he is charging the fence at one of the coons. The other coon is reaching inside the run and trying to untie the danged ties holding the double layer of chicken wire to the chainlink. Meanwhile, I cannot get a shot off at the coon for fear of hitting Brewster so my neighbor's wife has reached him with his gun and he drops the coon and starts running towards the other side towards me. Brewster immediately starting charging the coon by me and hitting the fence and the coon was busy trying to grab him through the wire. He dropped that coon.
The amazing part of the situation...those two coons or just one of them had untied/unhooked the hotwire from the plastic connector! Their prints were all around the post holding the connector where the hotwire was removed. As soon as my neighbor put the wire back up, it was hot. So these psycho coons were getting hit by the hotwire while they were disconnecting it, just to try to get a chicken dinner.
So, those with hotwires...check your hotwires and make sure they are secured to the connectors/holders each day.
Here is the brave Brewster and some of his girls (They are molting so excuse their ragged looks at present...they are a beautiful flock once their molt is finished)

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