Thanks for your replies, it eases my mind. I'm glad they didn't kill any of yours grandamchicken. I guess I would be scared out of my wits too if I had survived all of that, poor girls.
Well, its been a bad month, the gate latch to the chicken pen malfunctioned somehow (it's now been replaced) after they were free ranging that evening and when I went out the next morning I had 4 hens left alive out of 22. It was horrible, they had all just started laying too. We live out in the...