Today’s Run: \u00a0Rest Day<\/p>\n
After a restless night, I went out to check the traps around my chicken tractor. \u00a0I did a head count…yep, seven chickens. \u00a0I was sad because I used to have nine. \u00a0I was happy, though, to be able to count seven instead of six or five…<\/p>\n
I peeked into the traps. \u00a0Empty. \u00a0I had not caught a thing! \u00a0Rats. \u00a0Actually, double rats!<\/p>\n
Whatever this critter was, it had picked my traps clean and not sprung the trap! \u00a0They made off with the goods!<\/p>\n
My hens were all tucked safe and sound into the chicken tractor. \u00a0They were waiting for me to open the door and let them out for the day. \u00a0After my son and I stapled the metal hardware cloth around the tractor yesterday, that thing is practically Fort Knox. \u00a0There are still a few vulnerable spots but there is not a thing I can do about that except keep my fingers crossed.<\/p>\n
After reading the instructions for the traps again this morning, I discovered that they have a “sensitive” setting. \u00a0I am going to try that this evening.<\/p>\n
I had wild dreams last night about the many things I caught in the traps~everything from mice to dinosaurs. \u00a0Funny that!<\/p>\n
Tonight, hopefully will be a successful night and I can put a stop to whatever is eating my hens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today’s Run: \u00a0Rest Day After a restless night, I went out to check the traps around my chicken tractor. \u00a0I did a head count…yep, seven chickens. \u00a0I was sad because I used to have nine. \u00a0I was happy, though, to be able to count seven instead of six or five… I peeked into the traps. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}