Or rather last few hours anyway. Nipped down the plot earlier to check on the girls and feed them and found the shed they nest in had been torched and the one next to it had gone up as well. My little bantam has been killed, but the rest of the girls seem ok. Eggs all over the run cos nest boxes gone. Police and fire brigade treating it as suspicious.
Completely knocked for six, supreme irony is that the sheds were going to come down anyway to make room for a better house and enlarge the run.
Apparently started within 15 mins of me leaving them last night after I had gone down for evening chat and feed. Had put bantam in a little seperate run because she had gone broody, and if she sat tight was going to get her a couple of fertile eggs tomorrow, if she wasn't in that she might have got out.
Feel like s**t, got a long day tomorrow pulling down burnt stuff and trying to make good what we can.
Completely knocked for six, supreme irony is that the sheds were going to come down anyway to make room for a better house and enlarge the run.
Apparently started within 15 mins of me leaving them last night after I had gone down for evening chat and feed. Had put bantam in a little seperate run because she had gone broody, and if she sat tight was going to get her a couple of fertile eggs tomorrow, if she wasn't in that she might have got out.
Feel like s**t, got a long day tomorrow pulling down burnt stuff and trying to make good what we can.
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