Once again, we are a war with the "creatures of the woods" - foxes and raccoons. So far, the score is fox or raccoon 8 chickens - farmer - 1 raccoon. I can not afford to lose any more chickens.
Losing the 8 is costing me already when you figure those 8 laid 8 eggs a day - so 8 eggs a day times 7 days a week equals 56 eggs that I am now missing a week - over 4 1/2 dozen eggs that I have now lost. At $4 a dozen, that is about $18 which is one bag of feed now gone because some stupid fox or raccoon got hungry.
If I were to buy baby chicks to replace those loss, it still won't help out my present day situation because it takes 5 to 6 months to get the baby chicks up to production.
So now we have traps set out.
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