There is no more skirmishing going on. We are under full attack! I lost another two chickens today. We were gone all afternoon and didn't come home until after dark. I found one dead chicken inside the coop and my Chicken Butler door was wide open!! Now in the Butlers defense we had another severe storm with lighting and that may have messed it up. The chickens are still dying due to a malfunction of the door. I manually shut the external coop door and latched it. One hen had managed to crawl up on top of the quail pen. She was seven feet straight up with no way to reach her. She would have survived a full blown raccoon family assault. I think I may have another mother raccoon. This happened last time I had a mother raccoon. she just kept coming back and killing 1-2 chickens every couple of days. I am not sure what I am going to do. First thing to do is to get the Chicken Butler working. I may have to put it on a timer, not real sure what I am going to do. May just have to reset the limit switches on the Butler. I need to turn my babies loose so I can get more babies, but until I catch the killer that will just provide more victims.
On the plus side Annmarie just got me a wireless camera that will transmit 200 feet. I was going to mount it outside looking at the chicken yard door, but I may mount it inside and outside the door and just move it after I catch whatever is killing my chickens. It even has low light capability so I can see in the dark. I am trying to talk Annmarie into setting it up to live stream video from our website. I thought that would be cool!! But right now I am thinking it is one more tool to use in the Predator War. If I get it hooked up to the computer I will be able to view a 24 hour window of video and start marking the predator's habits so I can nab it.
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