They came back....

I am afraid now.  More turkeys were slaughtered and drug through the fence sometimes during the night.  Three are missing.  ONLY A FEW LEFT ALIVE.  We cannot hear any noise in this house.  I have a little security camera that I used when I was busy inside and grandson was in the pool.  Papa Bear was able to get inside the chicken pen, hang it on a post and still have a signal in the house.  We put the camera inside a Ziploc to protect it from moisture as it is not made for staying outside.  I can at least hear the dogs barking inside if I am near the monitor.  The sound is not loud but I am hoping it is loud enough to wake me up during the night.  One turkey is on top of the greenhouse and has been there all day.  He better stay there tonight.  My only surviving Silkie has flew up into a tree.  I did not encourage her to get into the coop.  It is not safe there.

Papa Bear found these tracks in the road after the rain this morning.  I think it is a Coyote track.  I don't know if we have a pack of coyotes or dogs.  What happens when we run out of birds?  Will they go after the goats?  We have one dog each in two of our goat pens but I don't know if they would stand a chance with a pack of animals.  We are at wits ends as to what to do.  We can't stay up day and night.  Papa Bear stayed up night before last and nothing happened, the demons skipped a night.  Will they skip tonight and be back tomorrow night?

We have been shown; a pack of anything...animal or humans can be in our yard and we would never know.  Perhaps this is why this happened.  We are being shown now so we can figure out our next steps. 

While researching packs of dogs I found this article.  Makes my skin crawl.  Danger from dog packs after TEOTWAWKI

Massacre ***WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT***

Sometimes things that happen on the homestead is not pretty.  Today was one of those days.  Papa Bear has been under a doctors care for a few days for an upper respiratory infection so I have taken over the farm chores this week. 

I had to wake Papa Bear.   A pack of dogs had dug under our chicken yard fence.   This is what I found this morning. 

and this

and this plus many more in the chicken and turkey yard.  The other pictures are so bad I won't post those.

There were 11 dead inside the chicken house and it is torn up really bad. 

We did find this turkey hen alive but after closer examination of her Papa Bear put her down.  One tom was barely breathing and he got put down as well.

Total body count was 33.  A few turkeys that still had flight feathers were able to fly up on top of the hen house and got away.  I think I have 3 chicken hens that may live and one rooster.



We had a problem with the neighbors dogs back during the summer.  I caught them in the act in broad daylight but I did not have my gun so they got away.  I had a talk with neighbor and he paid for damages.  At that time we lost 7 hens and 2 turkeys. This time it happened in the wee hours of the morning so we heard and saw nothing. 

I piled all the bodies out by the road just outside our fence along with a sign I made.  I really expected someone to call the sheriff or animal control but it didn't happen.  The bodies are still out there tonight.  I will bury them tomorrow if nothing eats them.

I called Animal Control.  They used to bring traps out to catch stray animals but now you have to go in and pay a deposit of $35.00.  When you take the trap back you get your money back.  I am OK with this but there won't be any caught animals going back with the traps.