Tell me it’s not true … please it can’t be

I was sitting in my office yesterday morning just about to blog a few stories and had a telephone message to get to Willow Park ASAP … they think that some chickens have been stolen.  I jumped into the car and went out to investigate to find that 15 chickens in total had been stolen during the night.  The thieves cut their way into the yards and then into the chicken coops … I can’t believe this … we started with 100 day old chickens … 61 died because of bad feed and now 15 have been stolen; this leaves us with 24 layers.  All lessons learnt I know … but it is hard all the same.

I think one of the things that makes it worse is that some of the girls in Samkele thought they had heard a car during the night.  It is one thing for locals to steal because they need food, but for someone to drive into Willow Park (who can afford a car and fuel) and to take the chickens is a whole different story … shame.

I am in the process of looking at the money made from the sales of our eggs to try to secure the chicken yards a lot more.  We are hopefully going to make our coop doors more impenetrable by welding more bars onto them and making the door ways sturdier.  I know that this will not ensure the chickens security, but at least it will be a bit more of a deterrent for would be criminals.