You can be absolutely sure that it was not a fox. My husband saw one of my girls get carried off into the woods this morning. He had just opened the coop and she managed to get out of the run somehow and it happened within seconds!! Needless to say I had been upset all day over it
I have a week all the chicks in together with almost fully feathered chicks . It's been wonderful! At night the little ones huddle up underneath the older ones and they all go to sleep. I found out they would do this quite by accident as my husband forgot to plug the heat lamp back in after...
I'm in Rush Ny. Just increased my flock with 6 isa brown and 6 buff orp. The buffs are three weeks younger than the isa browns and you should see how the little ones huddle under the bigger ones at night! I didn't know that they would protect each other from the cold at such a young age!