Looney Tunes

Let’s just say, this is one for the books, I do not even know where to start. My husband was so good and decided to stay up all night and hunt for the coyote without seeing him. I got up to go out and feed. It was around 9am, I slept in. As I was out feeding, I had let the chickens out of the coop, I was over by the hay to feed the goats when all of a sudden that coyote walked right past me to grab a chicken. Literally 10 feet from me. I panicked, of course. I did not have a gun on me. I do not carry a gun, I guess I will have to start, but I sure do not want to do that. Anyway, on

with the story. I have to pass the coyote to get back to the house and I did not waste anytime doing it. I ran in the house screaming for Ronnie which woke him up. He ran out with a gun as that coyote had one of my chickens and was running off. Ronnie took a couple shots off at him and he dropped the chicken and ran off. Well, you would think the story would end there. Nope. Ronnie left to go run some errands, by this time it’s like 10:30 in the morning. I was making coffee. I happened to look outside and see that coyote again in the same spot going after another chicken. I run into the room and grab the only thing I could find which was a 9mm. I run outside in the shop and grab the 4/10 shot gun. By the time I have all that done, that coyote is in the pasture with the cows and donkeys. Those guys were just watching, along with the goats and the sheep. He finally gets into a corner and I take a shot. I miss. I am running around the pasture desperate to not let that coyote get to my chickens. I call Ronnie and tell him to get home in a hurry. He had just got to town, so had not gotten anything done he wanted to get done. Well, I am chasing a coyote. I assure you, I did not sign up for that. Well, I know so little about shot guns, I did not realize that 4/10 needed to be reloaded after the shot I took. That coyote had me in his sights. He just stood there looking at me. I took aim and fired and of course nothing happened. I had to get through a gate quickly, but that coyote never tried to come toward me, but he is not scared of me. He ran back and ended up with the horses and the horses ran him off. I saw him running across the road again. We did not see him again that day. I did see some wild turkeys eating the chicken feed and I saw a road runner running around. It was quite the stressful day. Guess Ronnie will be hunting the coyote tomorrow. We also had another issue with a hen and an egg stuck on her behind which I had to take care of and we found a new nest of eggs. I think that is enough for one day. 

Coyote

So, Ronnie had to take me to the dr in Abilene. It was a cloudy looking day, but nothing really out of the ordinary. As we got home, a coyote ran out from by the storage building and across the road. It was 11:30 AM. That was crazy. All the animals were on alert. I went in and went to sleep because I was not feeling too well after being at the dr. when I got up, I went out to check the chickens. I had checked them before and had not seen anything a miss but this time, I noticed one of my chickens was injured. She was breathing funny and she could not walk. I held her and loved on her. She ended up seizing and dying in my arms. I was heartbroken. I know that coyote will be back and that makes me terrified for my chickens. 

Turkey

I saw the ugliest turkey walking across a pasture close to our house. I drove past it, but I was so interested in seeing what I thought I saw, I had to turn around and go back and make sure I actually did see this big turkey. I did see it. They are not pretty animals, but I am happy to see them when I see them. I am glad they can live out here. 

Cinderella

Cinderella was watching Bill getting petted and loved on. She almost looked jealous. She almost let me pet her and she ran off at the last minute. One day I hope she allows me to pet her and love one her. She has not so far and we have had her for a long time. We will see. Maybe she is warming up. 

Cinderella and Bill

Cinderella and Bill are quite the pair. Tinkerbelle stays away from the drama. Cinderella has decided to chase Bill around and she kind of moves him where she wants him. They do seem to play often. You can see them running around all over the place. It is fun to watch them. Cinderella is really having her personality showing these days. I am not sure Bill is liking it as much as Cinderella, but he is not alone and that is important. 

Willow

Willow is a special donkey. Not only is her dad my favorite donkey (yes, I know I should not have favorites), willow was born on my nephew’s birthday and my sister and brother-in-law’s anniversary, but she was named after a special patient I used to have. I gave Willow some special attention today because I got the news that my special patient had passed away. I am so sad about that. I did enjoy loving on the Willow donkey. She does not always allow me to pet on her. 

Looking out Longingly

The Turkens are making me laugh. They are watching everything going on. I still have them in the chicken coop so they are protected and continuing to figure things out. Those two, I need to name them, are watching out and looking out longingly at all the other chickens. I am thinking about letting them out. I may give them a few more days in there. They do look sad while they are looking at the rest of the chickens. They do get visitors though.