The manager whose office is right next to mine is Brian Klein, the pen manager. He is responsible for all the pheasants from the age of 7 weeks until they are mature and either shipped or become breeders. Brian has over 100 acres of covered pens to manage.
Brian is normally a quite enthusiastic and optimistic neighbor, but the past few days he has been in a very dark mood. Some predator (he thinks it is a feral cat) has been killing Brian’s pheasants. The predator started the killing spree 3 or 4 nights ago, and the #’s of dead keep rising. Brian has a trapper working his traps, and I know Brian has placed traps – and even stalked the pens. Last night the predator visited again, and nearly 200 10 week old pheasants were killed.
There is a bounty on the predator. Tonight this saga will end. I’ll report back.