Re: chicken terror-ist !
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- Subject: Re: chicken terror-ist !
- From: M* M*
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:55:17 -0800
Puts a whole new slant on the term "chicken-hearted" !!
Thanks, Diane !
Toni Hawryluk, Seattle, WA tonihawr@email.msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: chicken terror
> I used to have my chickens roost in tall trees, but they would be eaten by
>raccoons, so I made a pen and locked them in each night. Then every night
>some were eaten in the pen. It took me a while to figure out how the
>raccoons were getting in. I had merely overlapped the sections of wire
>fencing for the roof. When a raccoon got on a certain section of the roof,
>it bent beneath the weight and opened a big space for the coon to climb
>through. After the coon left, the wire went back up so that no gap showed.
>I fastened all the sections of roof together, and that solved that problem.
>
>I did have one chicken that won a fight with a raccoon. I had a White
>Leghorn, reputedly a never-broody breed, that nested near my front door,
>undetected by any of us. The first I knew of it was when I was awakened
>by awful squawks. I went out and gathered up the baby chicks. I could
>still hear squawks coming from down the road, and assumed it was the hen
>being killed. After a while there was silence, and then, back along the
>road came the mother hen who had chased off the raccoon and survived.
>
>Diane Whitehead, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>
>
