Massacre on Church Street

If anyone has kept up with Jeremy and his "Project Independence". (raise a few chickens, release them, and let them roam free like they do in Key West) I am sad to report we have run into a bit of bad luck.

We started with 10: five hens, five roosters, a spiffy cage from when I had ducks and anything else a chicken could want. Life was easy. They lived under the shade tree, were fed twice a day until....

Jeremy releases the chickens on Thursday night. They made it until Monday morning.

Apparently a neighborhood dog had been taunted by the free range chickens long enough and he struck. At first it was only two. I managed to run him off and didn't think much of it. I got the call from Brady at noon. "are you sure the dog only got two?"

Me: "Yeah, why?".
Brady: "Because there are bodies all in your yard. I think you only have TWO left".

Brady was right. The damn dog came back and murdered all our chickens except for the one who played dead and the other who climbed back up in the cage. From 10 to 2 in two hours.

So that's is what happened. I guess we will be buying our eggs at the grocery store, since we have two roosters.