A FOX got my Regular Chicken!!!!

This morning I was upstairs with my 9 month old daughter. The chickens started making a terrible racket at the back of the house. I ran to the window with the baby, whipped the blind up just in time to see a fox grab our favorite girl and run!!! I flew down the stairs and out the front door, screaming as loud as I know how. I took off after the thief, into the woods, still screaming at the top of my lungs. It worked, that rascal dropped her. I picked her up and carried her and the baby to the coop. She has been very quiet, sitting on a roost. There was a tiny bit of blood on her chest, but that's all the injury I can see. Is there anything I can do for her?

 

Well, Regular chicken has survived. (That's her name.) The others had to be found after the episode. They were all hiding in the woods. Everybody is staying in the pen from now on. The whole bunch has been very quiet today. Everybody has been on high allert. My best girl has been very quiet and inside a nesting box. She has one puncture wound on her chest. Her friends kept checking on her through the day. I'll try to find that Sulmet stuff tomorrow. I washed the wound with betadine and water. She went out and ate and drank late in the afternoon. The socks I was wearing on the run through the woods will never be the same... I nearly cried when it was all over and couldn't find the rest of them. I had no idea I would be so emotionally invested in these lovely birds.