Coyote attack decimates restaurant's chickens

BY Lisa Brooks  on January 7, 2012 @ 10:30 am (Updated: 11:31 am - 1/7/12 )

Since it's inception, "The Herbfarm", has been famous for locally grown and sourced organic ingredients. That includes the eggs from specially raised chickens in their own coops.

Unfortunately, the hens are gone. Somehow, coyotes got inside the electrified fence and killed about a hundred of them. Herbfarm owner Carrie Van Dyck says just one forlorn chicken was left.

They coyotes stayed away from the neighboring pigs and ducks.

And now, workers are replacing the old solar-powered electric fence with a stronger one.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

Lisa Brooks, KIRO Radio Anchor
You can hear Lisa Brooks every Saturday morning from 6-9 as host of Seattle's Morning News: Saturday edition. She also is a news anchor and regular feature contributor on KIRO. She joined KIRO in 2010 after 7 years with "the competition". She's now honored to contribute great stories to a fantastic team. Lisa's a big Mariner's fan, and has even had the opportunity to serve as a fill-in Public Address Announcer at the old Kingdome and Safeco Field for more than a dozen games. Biggest thrill, annoucing Ken Griffey Junior and Cal Ripken Junior's names as they came up to bat. Lisa loves volunteering in her community, and spending time with her two pooches, Dudley and Motley.
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  • Drool wrote...
    Who Says...
    January 7, 2012 10:48 am
    ...animals don't kill for sport?
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  • rights wrote...
    not surprising
    January 7, 2012 11:29 am
    I see a coyote in our neighborhood regularly. They are unchecked in the City, and seem to be growing in numbers. They need to eat, and your local squirrel, posom, Dog, Cat, Chicken are fair game. Can they be shot? Trapped and moved? I saw one walking along the side of the road on N.E. 124th in Kirkland one day - not afraid of anything.
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  • Tr33man wrote...
    Hate to say it...
    January 7, 2012 1:17 pm
    But this has a 'Portlandia' plot line to it somewhere.
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  • clevesside wrote...
    Tell me that coyotes....
    January 7, 2012 6:11 pm
    ...aren't on some contrived Federal "endangered list"...please! Somebody at the state level should declare open season if this keeps up. But then they can't agree on anything....
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  • pgreenswim wrote...
    Decimates?
    January 7, 2012 9:03 pm
    or devastates...When something is decimated, it's reduced by 10%, not almost eliminated. Learn the language, please.
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  • artimus wrote...
    pgreenswim
    January 7, 2012 10:17 pm
    You might want to check your dictionary before you make a fool out of yourself. Oops - too late!
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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    @ pgreenswim
    January 7, 2012 10:50 pm
    Good catch!

    However the word came from Latin and could also mean the hens were reduced TO 10% not just BY 10%. In either sense, the writer (no offense, Lisa) was technically wrong.

    Most today however care little about what the word MEANT in times past (and should still mean at present) and only know what it means, or is generally accepted as today.

    With that said, the words/terms racist(ism) and bigot come to mind!

    However, "devastates" could also be understood as wiped out or completely removed..... Just saying. ;-)

    Severely reduced, would be the safest and most understood term, but it does take up a lot of space, wouldn't you agree.......

    ;-)

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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    @ Bill Law
    January 8, 2012 5:02 pm
    You are correct.

    It was more used for serious crimes such as mutiny. Also, the 9 that were not selected for execution usually did the deed to the 1 that was selected.

    Have you ever read the World History by Polybius? He wrote a 40 "book" manuscript and he described the procedure quite vividly.

    In order to make paragraph breaks do this: < p > without the spaces between characters.

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    Follow the same pattern as bold to get italics using an i instead of a b .

    Practice it a few times and you will get it down........

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