Chickens: 1 Fox: 0

[bonniethomas06]

This was on Sky news yesterday - the link with short video is at the bottom - hope it works.

Murder Most Fowl: Chickens Turn On Fox
4:33pm UK, Wednesday March 03, 2010

Laura Holmes, Sky News Online

A group of plucky chickens got their revenge on a sneaky fox after it crept into their coop - by knocking it out and pecking it to death.

Michelle Cordell, 43, went to collect eggs from the pen at the bottom of her garden in Basildon, Essex, on Saturday morning and found a dead fox lying amongst the birds.

The animal seemed to have been pecked to death and was covered in blood marks from its legs to its head.

Dude the cockerel is suspected to have led the rebellion assisted by his female friends Izzy, Pongo and Pecky.

The victim fox was found in the coop the following morning

"The little table in the corner of the coop which the chickens perch on had been kicked over and was lying next to the fox's head," Ms Cordell said.

"It seems they kicked over the table, knocked the fox out and pecked it to death.

"It was not a cub, but it was only young and Dude and Izzy are big birds."
Ms Cordell lives with her partner Gary Howell and daughters Maddi and Ruby, who had hand-reared Dude from a chick.
Foxes have broken into the coop before but previous battles have always resulted in bird casualties.


http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strang ... don_Garden

[JulieSherris]

I could do with borrowing those hens!! I've been into the woods, dug out every hole in the bank that I could find, put up some higher netting to stop our girls going into the woods & so far, so good.
Problem is that Spring is heavily upon us & that means young foxes, hungry vixens,etc etc.... We've lost 4 hens a few weeks ago & could really do without losing any more - it's awful when you find a pile of feathers & realise that the fox has been

Good on those chooks though!