Our meat birds were nice and fat, ready to slaughter, and something (probably coyotes) broke into our chicken tractor last night and killed them all. There were feathers everywhere this morning and all of the chickens were either missing or dead.

That. Stinks.

That's life on the farm, I guess. We learned a valuable lesson and we're not going to be deterred! Who knows what we have to do now? Maybe a Livestock Guardian Dog? Neither one of us are into pets, so if we get a dog we certainly want it to have one purpose: guard our animals.

All of our other chickens are fine. We've still got our laying hens, bantams, ducks, and our roosters.