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Nov

Chickens

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Over the last several months we have lost several chickens.  About 20 to be exact.  We currently have 6.  We always find the carcass laying in the yard or coop somewhere.  Sometimes it appears to have been eaten, sometimes it is is just laying there with a broken neck.  The chickens refuse to go into their hen house and have resorted to roosting on our wood pile… ICK!  We have seen the neighbors dog in the coop happily trying to play with the chickens so we thought that was the source.  But our neighbor has been having trouble with raccoons so maybe that was the source.  Either way, enough was enough.  Doug fixed the fencing where there were obvious holes for a dog.  He cleaned out the chicken coop and layed fresh hay in there.  Then he blocked their holes and started bringing them down to their coop every night and letting them out in the morning.  I’ve reset their light timer to stay on all night.  And we set out a trap last night.  This am, much to Nicolas’s excitement, we trapped a raccoon!!!

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That little guy was soooo cute.  Nicolas didn’t care!  He was dying to shoot him.  So after I got his picture, he went down.  Nicolas and his dad are skinning it today.  Maybe we will trap another one tonight.

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