Today’s run 7:27 miles<\/p>\n
After all that effort to protect my hens, I lost another one last night~ \u00a0Sarge.<\/p>\n
Sarge’s real name is Yes, Drill Sargent but we all called her Sarge for short. \u00a0She was bossy and everyone stayed pretty much out of her way.<\/p>\n
Sarge was a pushover when she was not being bossy. \u00a0She would escape from the pen during the day and come up to the door and sit there waiting for me to carry her back down to the chicken tractor and pen. \u00a0What a baby! \u00a0I liked Sarge. \u00a0I will miss her bossing all the other hens around. \u00a0They literally quaked when she came around. \u00a0It will be quiet without her.<\/p>\n
I am majorly P.O.’d now. \u00a0I am pulling rank. \u00a0I called the Department of Wildlife today. \u00a0After getting the official Government runaround, I actually got a nice guy on the other end of the phone. \u00a0He is coming out this afternoon with a fancier (read: \u00a0bigger and better) trap. \u00a0This trap has a one way door and is capable of capturing more than one animal at a time.<\/p>\n
The DOW guy thinks I am dealing with a Raccoon~I have thought that all along. \u00a0When you get up in the morning and find the leftover parts of your favorite hen in the water supply, you know that a Raccoon has been there and washed its breakfast or evening snack.<\/p>\n
So, the DOW guy will be here in about an hour and I am eager to see this “bigger and better” trap and am hoping and praying I have enough hens left for it to do its job~that is to capture the culprit responsible for me losing my lovely ladies.<\/p>\n
It is now Wednesday. \u00a0Saturday evening when I went to bed, I had nine chickens. \u00a0Today I have six. \u00a0That is not good. \u00a0All I can think of is that Agatha Christie novel, “And Then There Were None”. \u00a0I do not want that to happen. \u00a0I know that there are plenty of other hens in this world but I have grown attached to the ones I have. \u00a0I do not want any more to suffer the same fate as the three this animal has already had.<\/p>\n
Keep your fingers cross tonight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today’s run 7:27 miles After all that effort to protect my hens, I lost another one last night~ \u00a0Sarge. Sarge’s real name is Yes, Drill Sargent but we all called her Sarge for short. \u00a0She was bossy and everyone stayed pretty much out of her way. Sarge was a pushover when she was not being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"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=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}