Our 5 beautiful bantam hens have gone
.
Hubby went out to the coop yesterday morning to feed them before he left for his trip and found the coop empty, feathers all over the run and a hole had been burrowed from the outside in. The fox had been in and taken all five of our girls in the night. We've had the oldest hens for nearly two years and not had a single problem before. Our poor girls - we are devastated. We searched the garden in case any had gotten away and hidden themselves, but there was nothing to be found, only feathers further down the garden. When we went out into the garden today, we discovered the fox had been back in the night last night too to see if any more hens had been put in the coop.
Last June, our two older hens hatched out chicks, we kept the girls and the boys went to a local smallholding that breeds bantams. Here they were as babies
Huddled together in the run
One of the Mum hens - Henrietta (this photo was part of another thread last year hence the caption)
The babies had grown up to look exactly like their Mums.
Goodbye to our sweet girls
Hubby went out to the coop yesterday morning to feed them before he left for his trip and found the coop empty, feathers all over the run and a hole had been burrowed from the outside in. The fox had been in and taken all five of our girls in the night. We've had the oldest hens for nearly two years and not had a single problem before. Our poor girls - we are devastated. We searched the garden in case any had gotten away and hidden themselves, but there was nothing to be found, only feathers further down the garden. When we went out into the garden today, we discovered the fox had been back in the night last night too to see if any more hens had been put in the coop.
Last June, our two older hens hatched out chicks, we kept the girls and the boys went to a local smallholding that breeds bantams. Here they were as babies
Huddled together in the run
One of the Mum hens - Henrietta (this photo was part of another thread last year hence the caption)
The babies had grown up to look exactly like their Mums.
Goodbye to our sweet girls
