There's loads here, the neighbour's usually come to the garden when I'm digging so I give them any worms or grubs I dig up, they also love spiders or anything creepy-crawly and I often wonder if chicken tastes like what it eats... It's a different story when I have plants growing because the buggers tent to peck at small leaves and tomatoes. I think it was last year I had to grab one and pop her back over the fence because she was being a nuisance. How do you pick up a chicken? I've seen people pick them up by the wings but that looks cruel, so I grabbed her around the body (worrying all the time about that sharp looking beak) and I told her I was sorry if I was doing it wrong but I'd never carried a chicken before. Well, at least, not a live one
Foxes are opportunists, they kill as many as they can but the idea is to stash the bodies for further consumption. When I was a kid I used to live down a lane from a farm with a duck pond where they had lots of different breeds of duck. One winter the pond froze over so there was no escape for the ducks. I don't know how many foxes there were but they must have killed at least 12 of them. Most of the bodies were still there but my dad found a few headless bodies in the field behind the farm wrapped in the tall grass, obviously like a larder. I suspect Sam's fox probably got disturbed or the silly bugger then realised he couldn't drag the chickens out through the hole he'd made in the coup.
