BeenSpur'd
I love her wild,wild hair
I went out to feed up this morning and discovered that the four, six week old chicks that I hatched in the incubator were killed by something last night. I don't know how they did it, they were in a big and strong metal cage on a wagon next to the chicken coop. It was their third night out since I moved them from out of the farmhouse. I had incubated the eggs because a snake had been going in there and stealing eggs that I left for the hen to sit on. I was just trying to let them grow a little bigger before I moved them in with the rooster and hen. What ever got them pulled one of them out of the cage and left the other three in there with neck wounds. The spaces on the cage are not that big so it must of been awfully traumatic. Whatever that something was that did this is going to be trapped and disposed of. I spent a lot of time raising these guys. I guess I will have to try again, I get an egg a day from the hen. I bought the hen and rooster from the county fair last year, it took five months for them to settle down in their new home, they got traumatized from being on display and I think last night set them back again. Anyhow, gotta go dig some graves