Yesterday evening around 5pm OH found one of our 8 month old poullets, Sandy, in an absolutly horrendous state, she was so badly hurt we had to put her out of her misery.
We are gutted and feel as though we let her down as OH had gone out and I was taking a shower, he found her when he came home. We are presuming it was a fox attack. She was one out of 8, and just as he completed the deed 3 of them came running back in from the paddock next door, where we are sure Sandy had also been.
Today we stayed with them while they had breakfast after which they all took themselves into the 2 shelters we have at the side of the house, and they haven't come out since.
Will the 3 who were out remember if they saw the attack, and will they all know one of them is missing?
Sorry to have written so much