Sometimes you have to make hard choices on the farm. But when it comes to protecting my goats and chickens, there is only one decision that needs to be made - protecting them at what ever it takes.
Over the last several weeks, we have lost 10 chickens to brutal attacks and it has not been pretty! That loss represents 10 eggs that I won't be getting a day or 70 eggs a week or over 5 (almost 6) dozen eggs a week I have lost. A lost that I could not afford.
So desperate times require desperate measures. A trap was bought. Let me state it here . . . I do love animals (well, I do HATE snakes - despise them!!!), but all other animals I love. I do not try to intentionally harm them if I can. I am devastated if I accidentally run over a squirrel on the road. Yes, raccoons look OH so cute. BUT they will tear apart a live chicken in matter of minutes. And, as I said above, it ain't purty!
Since we have put the trap out and "taken" care of 5 raccoons and 1 possum, I have not lost one chicken. I have too much invested in these animals for them to be "food" for the local wild life.
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