I was bummed over the weekend. Sunday I had gone out to let the horses out, and they were flipping out. Rearing up by the gate, running around.. I look, and there is Chipotle, our little rescued bantam hen, dead. Her head was gone.
Then later in the day, I saw a possum acting very weird; running in circles, mangy fur. Mark shot it dead. I really think that, based on it and the tracks by her body, that it killed her. I am not one to kill or have killed animals; but number one, this possum was Not healthy. Also, possums spread bacteria that can blind a horse.
Anyway; just a vent on my poor lost hen. Mark saved her frm a cockfighting house in 2007 and at least we could give her a better life for a short time. She could fly as well as any bird, and it still shocks me that she was taken. My other 2 roosters are still mourning and looking for her all over, though I close them in a stall overnight.