Speculation

Poor Josephine has lost a lot of her chicks. She hatched 16 and she is down to 6. I had no idea what was happening to them. I still don’t know what happened to them. I did walk outside to go to work one morning and saw Josephine out in the pasture with her chicks. I then saw a big bird swoop down toward them. I did not get a chance to identify the bird and I did not see it grab a chick, but after that I started to speculate that might be what is happening. I just do not know. She is holding steady at 6 chicks for the last few days and she is keeping them under a building on the property at this time. She may have figured it out now.