A sad, sad day...

We lost 9 meat chickens last night... I must have been a weasle... it was able to get into the cage where the chickens were not able to get out. Only 2 weeks away from butchering day... Not only a sad monetary loss, but sad for the birds that didn't get to serve their purpose. 6 were hauled away by whatever the critter was and 3 were left strewn about in the cage. We are now down to 14 birds, when we started with 25. I hope the critter doesn't come back tonight, now that he knows where "the goods" are. We'll leave Oliver (the gaurd dog) outside tonight... and probably all summer now... hopefully he'll catch him, or deter him at least.