As a follow-up to my post, Catastrophy yesterday morning on Fleming Family Farm!!! from a few days ago, I have now dispatched the culprit.

Wednesday morning I found the carnage in the chicken yard, as we were leaving for our vacation to Seattle so I did the best I could. I found the hole it dug and pout 2 metal jawed traps in the hole with a dead bait chicken nearby. That was wednesday and we got back late Saturday afternoon/evening.

It appears the bitch came back Saturday morning and got caught in my traps. I was smart and tied the traps to the fence to keep it from running off with my trap. When we returned home it was in the trap. My mother was not going to even entertain the possibility of having to dispatch it herself. So it was about 11pm last night and I went out and did the deed. It was super fast and hopefully ended this cycle.

The coyote had taken 20+ of my chicken's lives and I am completely content with the retribution. We were looking at butchering some of our hens soon to cull the numbers down a bit and we lost all that meat to a piece of shit coyote. There is plenty of other food available around and for it to just go in and indiscriminately kill almost every bird, I'm very happy to remove her from the local environs. I will not have her teaching young that I have potential food.

I've had dogs around my entire life so to have to do this is a bit disturbing as I feel a pretty strong connection to Canis. There are plenty of animals I have killed over the years but dogs and the like are some of the ones I have refused to, until now. This was my line. I have lost FAR, FAR, FAR too many birds to this one animal. I am positive that it is the same one that got my turkeys last year so good riddance. Now I will be shrinking the size of my chicken yard and will be adding a full perimeter of rock at the base of the fence. I've been thinking of digging a trench and sinking the fence a foot or so into the ground.

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