beckyfitz Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Lost both my poor duckies last night to a fox attack They live in a wooden house inside a walk-in run shared by my 4 hens in their Eglu. It is fairly reasonably secure run for daytime, but usually I shut them in their houses at night so I know they're secure. Once or twice if we have been away I have left them free in the run, the chickens take themselves to bed but as you know ducks often like to sleep in the open. So occasionally I have lapsed and not shut them in their houses - last night first time in a while, tired, late night, in bed before I remebered & thought, 'Theyll be Ok'. This morning one dead in the house, one just the other side of the run fence, chickens totally unscathed. Think they must have attacked through the flexible fence, Harry managed to get away & into the house where she died from her injuries, and Hip-Hop was dragged under the fence. I'm pretty sure the fox didn't get into the run or my chickens would be gone too. I always knew the run wasn't totally fox-proof which was why I religiously shut them in every night for over a year. I feel so bad that I left them unprotected, my own stupid laziness & carelessness Lesson learned the hard way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 That's a shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Pets Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 poor you. But now you know for next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thansen Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 I think it must be the time of year as they were fine all Summer- we just lost our two chickens (!!) in their run last night to a fox. Our kids are distraught as you can imagine- the run was closed but he dug under and we didn't have their 'house' closed up. We shoudl send a warning to all chicken keepers to beware this time of year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duchess Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 So sad. Sorry for your loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizzyMomma Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 {{{{HUGS}}}} So sorry to hear this...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superkitty Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Really sorry to hear that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 So sorry to hear that . It's so easily done though . Sorry to hear about your loss too, Thansen . I hope your kids are OK. (Welcome to the forum, by the way .) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
