A visit from the fox

[WthrLady]

I lost the hen, and to add insult to injury, ruined the gown trudging through the hay field looking for the red beast or what was left of my hen.

It was lovely too. A line, princess neckline, floor length, wedgewood blue. Sigh.

I got the fox two days later.

 

[Folly's place]

It's sad, but these stories are soooo funny! I do remember those military dress affairs too.
Our worst daytime predator episode was a fox who killed ten nice hens one afternoon. Awful! He died the following week.
Mary

 

[WthrLady]

We get into some seriously crazy situations. 2 Days after I was all glamorously dolled up, I was sleeping in the hay field and hunting in a ghillie suit the red beast. The first night I slept IN the coop with the rifle aimed out the screen door. Come dawn, I watched DH and ds leave for work. I listened to the rooster crowing above my head. As the hens woke to his hollering, they started chatting and mumbling away about the giant lump on the floor of the coop. As they rose for the day, they jumped off their perches and down onto my back and then out to the run- a couple of them stopping to sit on my back.

It was all I could do not to start laughing. And glory, did THAT shower feel good!

 

[Folly's place]

I decline to sleep in the coop!!!
Our fox had mange really bad, and was struggling to stay alive, poor guy. He also didn't give us a safe shot when he returned, but I alerted all the neighbors, and one of them got him.
Where our coop is situated, we would have been shooting either at the road, the neighbor's house, our house, or the horse pasture. Not good!
Mary

 

[WthrLady]

My coop is far from icky. Plus the fox had a habit of doing slow circles around the coop, looking in the vent window in the back, and hanging out on the porch and looking in the screen door. (hardware cloth is the screen, no way in, TONS of summer ventilation)

When he showed his little face, it was done-ville)

But again, from heels and warpaint, to cammo and war paint.

 

[aart]

You to are hilarious!

 

[aart]

Great story @Christopher28fair ...glad your girl got away and stayed safe the rest of the night.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

...TONS of summer ventilation...

What do you do with your chickens in winter? They need to breath year round.

 

[WthrLady]

What do you do with your chickens in winter? They need to breath year round.

It's a woods open air coop. It only has three sides. In the summer I also have that giant hardware cloth screen door so they only have two walls and all the other windows are open. as well.

I'd add my coop page to my side bar, but I've never been able to get the thing to STICK there!

This is my place. Trust me, they have PLENTY of fresh air! But no drafts.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/ooodalolly-at-dunrovin-station.67998/

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That's good.
It is just that some people think warmth is more important than air. When you specified summer ventilation, it worried me.
Sounds like a great building.