What could kill and eat 30 chickens in 1 night and not leave a single body.

[The Moonshiner]

And as you are working hard around your farm, do you have an Ipod with your favorite music to pass the time of day. Listening to some good tunes like Copperhead road by Steve Earle....

Ha
I do know that song well.
As for the IPod... I'm rollin and laughing. The only technology I have is a smart phone.
My music comes from boom boxes or stereos with knobs.
I have a handful of cds but still mostly have cassette tapes. Usually just listen to the radio. Have one in the barn and one on back porch that play 24/7.
Its hillbilly life here. Not only are we heating with a fireplace we were roastin hot dogs in it for supper last night.

 

[cavemanrich]

Don't think you are alone...

Have to do it outside or result to microwave...
I luv wiener roasts.

 

[The Moonshiner]

When I was a kid I used to roast them over the gas stove burner.
Later we got an electric stove. You can roll them around on the burner and it would cook them but they tasted like hell.
Microwave? Yuck, those turn into rubber dogs

 

[EggWalrus]

Thank You for the pics. Chichens came from Asia. Here is a link:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4utTa0M3YAhWNON8KHQ0pDHkQFggpMAA&url=http://www.humanesociety.org/news/news/2009/09/chicken_jungle_fowl_091509.html&usg=AOvVaw1iGPFeemjSa9u8DSTSJjQu.
The Reason I say This is because chickens are a ground bird. There natural predators usually come from the sky. Most of there vision is dedicated to looking up. that is why they turn their head to look at you when you are in front of them. With all the over head helicopters (here I have Warthogs and Osprey from North Carolina) that may also be spooking them. As far as they are concerned its just another bird. They need a bamboo patch or a 4*8 plywood they can run under when they exercises get close. happy hens lay way more eggs than scared ones. That is also why they they don't walk out into the sun in the middle of a summer day they stay right at the shade line. I hope you find a few of them. Are there Alligator or really big snakes there?

We have plenty of Gators here but no Boas or Pythons like they do now in the everglades and central FL. Another 20-30 years they might be up here.

 

[EggWalrus]

We have the stealths here so the birds never notice them. But we also get the big bombers and cargo planes that fly directly over us and so low it shakes the windows and you can read the numbers on them.
They spook everything. Now I'm wondering just what the chickens think of those things.

It's funny, the birds don't even pay any attention to the helicopters overhead. But let a hawk or a vulture cast a shadow and those chicken run for cover like they had the Devil breathing fire on their asses! We do have rattle snakes, cotton mouthed water moccasins, copperheads, and other snakes. Some I've killed have been over 6-7 feet long and big around as my arm. I cut 2 fake ceramic eggs out of one about 7 feet long 2 months ago where he ate them. and just last week I had 2 more ceramic eggs come up missing. Probably another snake. Well, I did trap and dispatch 2 small possums this week, and a fox trying to get in chicken pen that didn't make it across the creek quite quick enough. I'm still seeing the trap but haven't snared any thing yet. I'm gonna tan/smoke the fox pelt. Pic of fox below.

I just noticed that fox doesn't have black socks like all the others I've seen down here. Could it be a hybrid? Any one heard of coyfoxes?

 

[NikAndHerChicks]

I haven't heard of them (doesn't mean they don't exist... I just haven't heard of them!) That looks like a gray fox to me, though. They typically don't have the "socks" of the red fox.

 

[NikAndHerChicks]

Google is amazing! I just looked it up (I was curious! )& the general consensus is that due to the fact that they have different numbers of chromosomes, they could not naturally procreate. Dogs, wolfs, coyotes & jackals all share the same number of chromosomes, that is why we see hybrids of those species.