Monday, July 20, 2009

Babysitter's Club







I've been babysitting for several weeks. A teen-aged friend of mine needed a place to keep his chickens for a while. Actually it was 100+ chickens. The keyword being "was". Due to my swell animal husbandry skills in combination with his "not quite adequate" fence building skills, add to that an attack from a natural born killer, you have a recipe for disaster. There are now about 70 chickens and one very happy, healthy, well-fed skunk. My chicken numbers are dwindling but on the other hand, my skunk is thriving.

6 comments:

{Tara} said...

Oh no!! My parents have chickens and it seems every week there is an incident with a neighborhood animal or wild animal!!

Christopher A. Klingler said...

I did not know skunks liked chickens?! You learn something new every day...

Chris '-)

cconz said...

I never would have quessed that skunks liked chickens. What mess that must been.

Christopher A. Klingler said...

Popping in to say hello & wish you a wonderful weekend!

Chris :-)

yellowdoggranny said...

maybe you should switch to raising skunks..?

mary schweitzer said...

I did not know that about skunks! How awful.
Mary