When I went outside this morning to give some apple treats to the cows and to check on the chickens I noticed that there was a dead chicken beside the chicken coop. It kinda caught my eye because it was one of the younger chickens, but still you just never know. See we don’t butcher our chickens when they get older. We just let them hang out until they die. So when I saw this chicken I wasn’t too concerned and into our cremation system (fire barrel) it went.
I checked in the coop to see if there was anything else kind funky going on and thank goodness I didn’t see anything. Well that was until I stepped out and headed back to the house. By our water hydrant there was a pile of eggs there that were broken and all the eggs insides were gone. 
My first thought is that Daryl found a pile of eggs in the hay barn and tossed them out. With our chickens loose on the farm, you just never know where they might put a nest so I didn’t think much about it. Well until later when I asked where he found the eggs and he had absolutely no clue what I was talking about.
Now normally we lock up the chickens at night, but lately we’ve been kinda lazy and haven’t done it. And what we’re guessing is that some mysterious animal came in during the night, gathered up the eggs, took them outside and ate them. OK, I know that this sounds pretty weird, but what I know is that one chicken in dead outside and there is a pile of eggs that are eaten by the water hydrant.
Well that’s enough evidence for me that something went down in the coop last night and for tonight? Yup, everyone was locked in at 8:00!