The Idaho Department of Fish and Game earlier this month killed a mountain lion that entered a family’s chicken coop, marking the third time the agency has killed a mountain lion in Idaho's Wood River Valley in recent weeks.
According to a news release, Fish and Game conservation officers responded to a home in the Woodside subdivision in east Hailey after a resident told Blaine County emergency dispatchers that they had heard “a disturbance” in their chicken coop Friday night. The resident looked in the coop and saw what they believed was a mountain lion, so they closed the coop door, trapping the predator inside.
Fish and Game officials found a juvenile mountain lion in the coop when they arrived. Officials said they looked for a zoo or other accredited facility to take the mountain lion but couldn’t find one and later killed the mountain lion.
