And then there were nine ...

This afternoon I took a friend to the tackroom to show off the new chicks and we were met with pandemonium. Chicks squashed between wire and the tub, chicks totally out of the enclosure, chicks on the wire, and a very large bull snake with a very big belly where the chicks should have been.

The tackroom is not hermetically sealed, neither is the coop of course, and he must have crawled over the wire to get to the chicks. Good thing some animals know when they are full ... We moved the entire chick operation to shop/shed because it is more difficult for animals to get into, but then, just as we were leaving, here was another bull snake headed for the coop! Two snake relocations in 30 minutes.

Order has been restored, and they are back to eating and sleeping, the nine of them.