A critter in the chicken house is no joke! We had a genet taking out dozens of our young hens a couple months back. Not a single old bird. Not a single rooster. My husband secured the seemingly already impenetrable hen house but sadly he had to kill the genet. They don't kill to eat. They kill for sport. We lost 2/3 of our hens.

Blessed Shabbat to you and all your family