My Chickens!

This summer we got a bunch of chicks so that we would get more eggs. Some how we ended up with like 3 roosters, so then we had 4 roosters including Check Mate our original rooster. They are really annoying when they don't shut up. A few weeks ago our chickens started disappearing! Well not really disappearing, but dieing or more like getting killed. My dad went in the chicken pen and he came out and he told me to go look out there becuase the chicken was all ripped up! Something ate the chicken, but it was one of the roosters so now its not as noisy:) It was still pretty sad though. I was surprised that that chicken got killed because he was huge! And guess what, oh my gosh, all the other chickens were eating the dead chicken. It was disgusting! I was like thats not very nice that was your friend that your eating, but nobody listened to me. Another time, last year during the winter our chicken coup had rats in it that were eating all the food. My dad tried shooting them but they're really fast! I think he only killed one that way after a long time of sitting out there in the dark. So Charley, my dad and I all went down to the chicken coup and my dad told us where to stand. We were all set in our positions and we each had something to hit rats with that came out of the chicken nests. I had the tamping iron, ya those big heavy metal things! Charley had a shovel and my dad had a shovel too. I was suppeosed to stand by the door so the rats couldn't escape. Then my dad started shaking all the hay in the nest around and all of the sudden all these rats just started pouring out of the chicken nests!! it was really weird! and gross. Charley was saying I don't want to be in here anymore! He was freaking out and then my dad was like its ok they won't do anything to you. Then I killed two with that tamping iron! It was really fun. Then they looked like pancakes:(. My dad had to put this piece of wood or something in the way of the door because they were really sneaky and started finding ways out. When my dad hit one with the shovel and it was still alive it came running out of nowhere and started hanging onto my shoe!!! I was screaming so loud. I was like get it off!! And my dad just laughed! I was mad haha. After we were pretty sure there was no more rats we brought all the stuff back and went into the house and we were all dirty from trying to kill all the rats and my mom was like what were you guys doing so then we had to tell her the whole story and on and on. I don't think I'll even forget that night when we killed all those rats and i don't think they're coming back because we haven't had that problem again yet.