November 30, 2011
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TWO LESS CHICKENS
We lost two chickens yesterday. I went down about 1:00 to give them some scraps and one was missing. I only counted 14, but I didn’t see any signs of the missing pullet. When Corey got home at 2:30, there were feathers all over the pen and another one was missing.
He went into the pen and found one half eaten and another with it’s head gone. The one with the missing head was in a pile of leaves. Because it was brown, it was the same color as the leaves. The fence didn’t seem disturbed, so we think a fox must have gotten under it. Both Corey and I probably interrupted a meal.
Because we wanted them to free range, we have a movable fence that can be relocated to different parts of the lot. They have about 1200 sq feet of grass to scratch around in. We need to think of a way to make the fence more secure.
Comments (4)
I’ve seen lots of foxes around here lately (south central PA). I wonder if your neighbors are having similar experiences.
We live in an area of Illinois called the Fox Valley, and we’re right by the Fox River. That’s probably not the reason we have so many foxes. There’s also a family of coyotes living in a nearby neighbors property.
Not sure how you can secure a moveable pen so the fox can’t get under… some, stakes maybe? Sorry about the chickens.
Yikes! Not a happy thing to wake up to. We have space for chickens but we don’t keep them. They would drive the dogs bonkers.