Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That happened to our first batch of guineas. They stuck their heads out of the chicken wire and were all be-headed by a raccoon. We bought more guineas and replaced the chicken wire with screen wire and never had another problem with raccoons. There is a lot of death involved with farming :-( Tina On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Ken Iisaka <ken at iisaka.com> wrote: > I had an incidence where twelve week-old chicks were all killed by a > raccoon. > > So puzzling was that the chicks were in a wire mesh cage, and all of > them had no head when I found them. > > Presumably, one chick stuck its head out, and the raccoon ate it. > > Then all the others were saying: "Oh, Bob, what happened?" and stuck > their heads out too. > > Yes, they were bred to be pretty stupid. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com