As a family we are devestated-our 2 girls who we have had for 3 years were last night. They are in a pen and at night sleep in the eglu. DH put them to bed and didnt quite shut the eglu door properly, nor the pen door (which is ok as when properly in their eglu they are safe) this morning ds1 went out to "do" the chickens and came running in upset as there were feathers everywhere and no choocks.
The dog woke me up at 3 last night barking (unlke him) and so I let him out he bounded up the garden and barked alot then came in, if only I had gone out tho I might have been able to scare the fox off.
So ive cleaned all up, lots of paw scratch marks all over the eglu poor girls must have been so scared. my ginger was soo tame and friendly, would follow you about and loved being held and fussed.
I went and got 2 new hen today who are obviously very young so are not at all tame! and are in fact terrified! also one of then (Irene) just keeps trying to jump out of the 7ft high pen and has made it once so far landing thankfully on the trampolene net where I was able to catch her.
Me thinks this is going to be a tricky time for us!