I am absolutely beside myself...my son came to me today and said a huge bird was flapping at the hoop coop. I couldn't believe it and went down there...there were feathers everywhere and 2 chickens dead. Mrs. Patmore (family favorite) the crele orp and a white crested blue polish were killed. All the other birds managed to hide/escape. Over the course of having my mom and boys help me police them up and get them all to safety, the next door neighbor woman who is older (and has always been very nice) came on her porch and started screaming at me. This went on even as I tried to clean up the dead birds, get the living ones and was generally a complete mess. She berated me for my life choices from having 4 kids and 2 dogs and a husband to calling me the b-word and making weird insinuations about my family. She went on and on about how the chickens were in her yard. I kept explaining through tears that they were hiding and I was trying to get them to safety. She just wouldn't stop yelling at me, and as I begged her to stop screaming at me she began mocking me. It was insane. Two hours later I am still a complete mess---sad, outraged, and definitely off kilter. But I also need to take care of my kids---fearing my daughter is on the edge of appendicitis...and I'm here spilling it because I'm just sick. I can accept loss of birds from predators as an inevitability, but being verbally assaulted and called obscenities by a 75+ year old in front of my kids is just too much.