....has come over the hen house and run. But I am inwardly screaming, pinking away a few tears.
We always say goodnight to the girls and Arthur the 3rd, when they are settled high up in the rafters of their home, before we close the door. We didn't clip their wings, just so they could find higher ground in case of an emergency.
This morning when Bert went to say good morning he thought to himself that it was so quiet. Normally there is a lot of racket going on while Arthur is chasing the girls for a bit of nooky.
When he opened the door he was in for a shock.
Two hens have escaped the carnage that happened during the night or early morning. A consequence of the tiniest hole that would accommodate a mink !
This is the least offensive photo of the carnage.
Mammy hen and baby where safe in the Wendy house. The question is for how long ?
And what about the two survivors ? I can't possibly let them sleep there again tonight.
I am quietly screaming !
RIP poor little Arthur x
ReplyDeleteSorry to read of your loss.
ReplyDeleteI think that you have to do two things: one put down some mink traps and the other is to bury the fence wire deep all around the coop into the earth say 250mm.
Oh no. That must have been a horrible discovery. X
ReplyDeleteOh Patricia I am so sorry. How sad.
ReplyDeleteThis is horrible, I'm so sorry. I know what it's like to find a scene of complete carnage. I understand your quiet screaming, it goes along with an icy cold feeling in the pit of your stomach.
ReplyDeleteWe were once out buying 14 new hens to grow our flock and arrived home with them only to find that a fox had killed 16 of our girls and the cockerels, who had all died fighting to protect the remaining hens.