What is killing my chickens?

[ohiosteve]

Holding steady at 7 chickens as of this morning. I stood outside last night and just listened. I heard owls and some chatter I guessed to be either baby coons or coyote pups. I gotta get a camera set up.

 

[ohiosteve]

Wow Dave, they might as well get another 40,000 and make it an even million.

 

[Dave]

Wow Dave, they might as well get another 40,000 and make it an even million.

I was over at their processing plant one day and counted 17 semi's either backed up to the loading dock or waiting to back in. I have been through the plant several times and it is pretty impressive. There are eggs forever on conveyers.

 

[ohiosteve]

I can't even imagine dealing with that amount of eggs. The Amish man that is funding this showed me some brochures on the equipment used to collect and place the eggs on the cartons and it was pretty high tech. He said he would get a new batch of chickens every 15 months and the old ones go for meat. The new ones come in almost full sized ready to start laying.

 

[Kingfisher]

Sounds like those prudent Amish jumped on that egg shortage catastrophe from the last year or so. I wonder how they for saw that? I know some dudes near Austin that have a free range organic egg deal going on that pretty impressive $ wise for the input

 

[ohiosteve]

The way I understand it, as long as the chickens have access to a "pasture" they are considered "free range", but the chickens rarely if ever go outside because they are content in the barn.

 

[ohiosteve]

Deep south was right. It was a chupacabra.
Our dog treed it early this morning. I was surprised how much a chupacabra looks like a racoon.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

Deep south was right. It was a chupacabra.
Our dog treed it early this morning. I was surprised how much a chupacabra looks like a racoon.

You sure that's not a big cat? You weren't just hoping it was a racoon? Whatever . . . . Whatever your dog chased up a tree near your chicken pen is probably your culprit, but I'll be mighty disappointed if it wasn't a cat or the chupacabra, and just a sneaky coon.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Deep south was right. It was a chupacabra.
Our dog treed it early this morning. I was surprised how much a chupacabra looks like a racoon.

Your crazy, that's a levitating bat**** cougar!

 

[Deepsouth]

The old masked bandit was the culprit again.

 

[M-5]

I sure hope you dog didn't bite the coon. You know that's a death sentence for dogs now.

 

[TexasBred]

I sure hope you dog didn't bite the coon. You know that's a death sentence for dogs now.

Dash you're acting like CB's little yappy dog now. It gets really old after a while.

 

[dun]

I sure hope you dog didn't bite the coon. You know that's a death sentence for dogs now.

Dash you're acting like CB's little yappy dog now. It gets really old after a while.

Would that the the one that yaps just to feel his butt hole wiggle?

 

[ohiosteve]

I sure hope you dog didn't bite the coon. You know that's a death sentence for dogs now.

I wish I had a nickel for every coon and whistle-pig that dogs bitten. I've seen her trotting through a field with a groundhog in her mouth so big her back legs weren't even touching the ground. She'll take out a medium sized coon but the big ones usually get away from her but she usually gets a few bites in and she's got the scars to prove it.