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Mystery solved! My poor old lady neighbour found my even poorer chickens half buried in her compost heap, which pretty heavily indicates a fox. But how did it get in the locked enclosures? By opening the locks! I left out a load of cat food in the chicken's old run and the fox returned...

I hope so. Had a look around and no sign of em. Hope any runners will come back. Im counting the chicks as a KIA though. They wouldn't have survived without their mother. V sad :( Decided to build a whole new area from scratch, burying wire to stop digging etc. Just incase.

Thank you. I'm pretty gutted. Especially about the babies. Pretty much foxes, birds of prey and the occasional ferret. I'm going to lay down some fox traps tonight and see if I can trap a return visitor. Definitely buying some cameras also. Tbh instead of a coop I might just buy a steel shed...

I live in Northumberland, UK if that matters. I got up this morning to feed the chickens and there were feathers all over my garden. I figured 'Oh god, something got one of the chickens'. It's unpleasant, but part of keeping chickens. Then it got weird. So there's feathers from one chicken...