A sneaky nasty coyote slunk into the yard last night and scared all of us!  Of course not me! I started hollaring real loud so Mom would hear and come out.  Dad came out first and that scared the homely furry species of a dissoulte style of life based on raiding, killing and other uncivilized forms of behavior!!!  Actually Mom never heard me and she never came out, but DAD did and that is all that matters.

We have a nice chicken coop, heated in the winter, fenced in run with a fenced over top so other animals can’t get in, (here’s some nice plans if you want to build one for yourself-Plans from BackYard Poultry Magazine)

Anyway, just to let you know, chickens get really sleepy at night…..really sleepy, I mean there isn’t a way to stay awake, the sun goes down, we go to sleep .  That’s why we have to sleep in the house…to stay safe.

Now when Roo was here ( I still miss him) he would crow at night randomly to scare anything away that wasn’t suppose to be there.  But since he is gone– that just doesn’t happen.

I wonder if the three mean hens ran him off?  They are mean enough.

OH!  Back to my story…

Anyway, coyotes kill more chickens and cats than skunks or raccoons, goodness they even kill stay dogs just for the sport of it!  If you’ve never seen  those lean-limbed, long-haried scruffy-tailed, yellow-eyed, slack-jawed, hungry-looking coyotes go here Coyote.  There is a real good photo of one.  Brrrr, shiver, shake, scary!

This coyote was skinny…I know cause I sleep by the window and when I heard the scratching on the side of the house I looked out and gave a sqwack of fright.  I sure was glad Dad was outside ‘taking in the cool night air’.  He likes to get up at night and check out things.  BOY WAS I EVER GLAD!!!!!

That savage animal ran off!  Just ran off.  Mom was very concerned, the next morning. (Get that..the NEXT Morning!) We’ve been hearing them laughing and singing in the neighbors cornfield.  Now one of them arrived at our house.

Mom said they were going to put up a motion light, good!  Whatever that is!  Keep those animals away!!!!