Ask Chip
Kathleen MacMurray, Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative
Q. Hi Chip: I live on County Road 220 next to the Hancock-Wood substation north of Van Buren, Ohio, and read your very interesting outdoor articles in Ohio Cooperative Living magazine. Perhaps you can solve a riddle for me: I had six very nice laying hens in a fenced yard, and one warm summer afternoon when I went out to refresh their drinking water, all six were lying dead, decapitated, with no signs of any predator around. I wondered, could it have been a fox, hawk, owl, or a mink that killed them?
I have two squirrel tales to tell this month. You may remember my story (Ramping it up) in the April 2019 issue of Ohio Cooperative Living. In the story, I highlighted cooperative members Dave and Jane Kunkler, who have developed a home-based business of selling ramps, a leek-like plant they discovered growing in profusion on their rural prop
