Chickens..... Didn't you wonder why we needed more?

We'd lost our last chickens to Marten who had dug a hole under a 2 foot log and strangled our laying hens...... just for the eggs.  The Marten left the dead birds..... it was not interested in them at all.
The Chicken coop is fairly secure.... we thought.  It has screen, then chicken wire and topped with chain lick fence that goes down into the ground all around the shed....  but we never considered the digging under a two foot log.

 Now for the last 2 weeks Bee our cat has been chasing and cornering and fighting with Marten each night.  In the dark you can hear the hissing, and growling and thumps...  Vikki has been begging Bryan to catch those Marten now, before they kill Bee also....  but he wanted to wait until they were prime and worth some money to kill them.  (Last summer a Fisher killed our 6 chickens and 4 Highland Lynx cats).
Well, last night after coming back from trail making Bryan took out 3 boxes and set some traps along way back in the bush... He said there are tracks everywhere but no sign of cat tracks back there.  This morning when Bryan checked he had 2 large mature males and a juvenile female.

 The double door system to the warm chicken coop is now nailed shut on the outside and also on the inside.  Now even on warm days we can not let them out into the enclosure .... Bryan will build a wood floor in the outside enclosure in the next few weeks when we can't go boating, quading or skidooing yet.