[Groesbeck Hurricane]

I got home today and my favourite rooster was no where around. He usually shows up quickly to beat me up and ask for food. No bird! I looked and called (he answers to his name) and nothing. No rooster! I looked all over the pastures and yard.

I shot a large coyote this am in the back pasture near the house but the barns were all closed up. We have been seeing the signs of a raccoon but have not seen it anywhere.

This evening I found the carnage in the chicken barn. The feathers of one or our roosting mother birds were all over the place. No body. Further in back, my rooster was laying dead protecting the babies! They were all dead and right there with him. I put down the mouse who was in there with my .22.

He was a great bird, I will miss him! He and his full brother took on a red tail a few years back. His brother did not make it through that one. His other cohort died taking on another red tail, my wife saw the bird come in and the rooster rushed between the hens and the hawk to take on the hawk. He lost but the hens survived.

Leisure Suit Larry (Mille Fleur d'Uccle, a rare breed of chicken) was a GREAT rooster! He will be buried in the morning with full honours.





He will be missed. I am now down to one rooster who will throw his life in the way of harm and one rooster who is a rescue from a rooster fighting ring (the poor guy is scared of EVERYTHING).