At 10am I realised I was meant to have taken my car to the garage at 9am, couldn't lock the dogs in their room as a new floor had just been laid, so I left them in their part of the garden, which is contained. I go get a drink with my parents and brother just before coming home and my dad gets a call from the neighbours saying the dogs have got down the garden (through two locked gates and an electric fence) and killed a chicken =(
At which point I burst into tears in the middle of the cafe and we run out (after paying!) and drive home as quickly as possible. Get home run down the garden and see nothing other than feathers. My mum forces me back up to the house away from it and tells me she doesn't think anything is alive any more =( (All the chickens, rabbits, guniea pig and quail are down there) So i'm sobbing my heart out, when my dad runs up the garden and tells me.... EVERYTHING is still alive!!!!!
Two chickens hiding in their coop, and one in a rabbit hutch, all the rabbits in their beds!
My chickens now have tails missing and are very shocked, and one quail has cut her head, but they're all been sprayed with purple spray, and are now shut in their coop to rest!
So so so so grateful and happy that they've survive! The four dogs must have been down there half an hour and all they've done is pull a few feathers out, so happy they didn't go for the kill!
We are now investing in superlocking fool proof gates and pegging the fence down so that there is no chance of this ever happening again!
(The dogs seem oblivious to their mistake!)
Is there anything else I could do for the chickens to make sure they survive the shock? x