Pop-Ups Cancelled Until Further Notice

As of today, I am cancelling our pop-ups until further notice. On Monday evening, 9/9/24, while Jeff was playing his gig at Trail Rider Pizza in Cedar Crest, two of our neighbor's dogs broke through two of our fences (one wire fence and one electric), then broke into our barn-coop by squeezing their large (livestock guardian size) bodies through our tiny chicken door opening. The dogs brutally murdered and maimed beyond recovery most of my laying hens. This is not an accusation. This is truth. The dogs were still in there when we got home and we saw them actively in progress as well as my poor hens' violently battered bodies. Law enforcement was called. Documentations were made.
My hens were more like pets/family to me than "poultry/livestock". I cooked for them. They had names. They had personalities. One even knew her name and would come straight to me when I called her. I could go on, but I won't. She is gone now. I am struggling and so far beyond traumatized I don't have words to describe it. I can only say that I don't feel it's safe for my animals for me to leave our property at this time and current zoning does not permit us to open up our property for on-farm sales.

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