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[Peaches]

I let the girls out this morning - they free-range - and when I went to check on them half an hour ago, all we could find was three clumps of feathers in different parts of the garden. It looks like a fox got all 3. I'm devastated. I should have kept them in the run as neighbours have had fox attacks, but I thought we were okay now.

 

Good bye girls. I'm sorry I didn't look after you better.

 

Fi

[poachedegg]

Oh what a shame. Don't beat yourself up - you were only doing what you thought best.

x

[Blackrocksrock]

Are you sure that they are all gone and not one hiding somewhere in fright? I am so sorry for your loss and mine also get out to free range all day and I hope they are safe but I feel the run is too small for them in the eglu run and when I put the retting up they fly over it no bother!!!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Oh no, I'm so sorry . Don't blame yourself, it could (and has) happened to any one of us .

[Chickvic]

Oh no, I'm so sorry . Don't blame yourself, it could (and has) happened to any one of us .

 

Ditto

[WitchHazel]

WHat a horrible thing to happen. <> to you and your family.

 

I see from your signature that your Girls were ex-batts, so at least they had time to taste freedom and feel the sun on their backs.

 

Try not to beat yourself up about it, it's done now.

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Fi, I'm so sorry to hear this, Please try & remember that you gave them a much better quality of life than they would have in their previous "life".

 

RIP little ones ,{{{hugs}}} to you all,

 

Sha x

[Egg Lou]

So sorry for you As already been said it could happen to any of us..

[clucky h]

Oh Peaches how sad.

 

As the others have said, don't blame yourself, quite the opposite: you've given them a happy life which they otherwise would never have had.

 

Hugs x

[ClaireG]

((hugs)) Im so sorry. As the others have said please don't beat yourself up.

[Cooks]

so sorry

[AndyH1981]

Oh no!!! *big hug*

 

Like someone else suggested... maybe check that maybe they're not hiding somewhere?

 

Sorry to hear your news!!

[Ness3103]

i'm so sorry to hear about your girls sending you biiig hugs

[Egluntyne]

Very sorry to hear it. Devastating for you. It could happen to any of us.

[teee]

... Ditto, so sad to hear this.... ((( hugs ))) to all your family.

[Janty]

Hugs from me as well.

 

[Sarahw12]

Awww, I'm sorry. I think it's a learning process- how to keep your chooks safe- I reckon most people slip up on the way to getting it sorted. I know I have.

 

[Seagazer]

I'm so sorry

[jlo]

Really sorry to hear of this. It only takes a couple of minutes and we all have to balance the freedom with the dangers. I know that I don't like keeping the girls in the run all the time but nor do I have the time to supervise them 100% of their freeranging time so it is a risk that I run too. Please don't feel bad about it!

[Electricbarbarella]

I am so sorry as others have said it could be any of us and is definatley not your fault.

[Guest]

My ducks free ranged for 4 1/2 years but they were all killed in their wooden house early one morning...the fox had broken in and I had just missed it(they were all still warm) only one Ayelsbury survived. So this is why fox is so cunning...quiet predator mostly. Lulls us into a false sense

 

Have a few days and your ex batts had a better time than their original life...so sorry indie

[Space Chick]

I am so sorry

[Redwing]

I'm really sorry about your hens

[kitbag]

I am very sorry to hear this.

[chick wiggle]

So sorry, ditto everything thats been said - there but for the grace of god!