Last week, Silkie Sue was killed by a raccoon. We found her body with evidence to prove who killed her. It was sad because she's been such a great girl and was a wonderful mom hen to so many of our hatches. She was also in the very first batch of girls that we got.
So we had a hunter come set traps to protect the rest of our birds and I set up our game camera.
It was only the second time that I pulled the card and I saw this fox walking across the driveway into the garden area.
A few days later he caught a fox. He also was tracking the foot prints and found two sets of fox tracks, at least one raccoon and an opossum.
This morning the youngest came running inside to say that a opossum was in one of the traps. I went out to snap a picture and felt really bad. It's so cute!
The trapper came and took care of things. I don't know what that means because I don't want to know. I know he's let some things go before, especially younger animals, but I know I need to protect our hens so I just let him do what he does best.
