Yesterday morning bought about the most shocking discovery. I went out to feed my 14 beautiful hens to discover that they had been killed overnight by a fox.
Senseless killing for the sake of it.
I am slowly trying to come to terms with what happened, Lawyer is struggling to deal with grief as an adult (her parents always shielded her from death) and C is aware that Chook Chooks are not in their yard. Whenever we go outside I’d take her to see them, either looking over the fence or going into the yard and feeding them, today they weren’t there to greet her and she looked around to find them.
As Lawyer said to me, ‘we lost part of our family.’
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November 4, 2011 at 2:21 am
i am so sorry. that must have been an awful discovery this morning.
November 4, 2011 at 11:45 am
As a woman who is owned by her hounds, I totally understand. You are all in my thoughts and prayers.
November 5, 2011 at 9:28 am
I’m so sorry. I think I know how you feel since we lost our chicken’s last year to some varmint, be it fox or weasel. We didn’t get any chickens this year, hoping that we can trick whatever killed them to think “no more chickens. I’ll go to greener pastures.” Love the photos of the baby. Renate
November 8, 2011 at 12:40 am
Oh no! What a terrible thing to discover.
November 8, 2011 at 4:01 am
oh sad! sorry to hear about that!
November 12, 2011 at 7:05 pm
That is awful. We lost 10 of our 12 at about this time last year, unfortunately found by our kids
We recovered for a little while, fox proofed the chook house (seriously, it has a security screen outer skin) and bought some ex-battery hens. They looked awful to start with, but they’re beautiful now and we’ve healed from the nastiness of finding the originals headless but uneaten. So pointless.
I hope you can recover, fox proof and go again. Chooks are lovely, productive pets.
Thinking of you.
Bridg