damned fox

[sternyboy]

That damned fox called on Tuesday night and killed 1 of my chickens, another 2 must've been gotten hold of but are still with us.
This 1


has got a wonky bottom beak and doesn't close it but she is still scratching about and drinking, althugh she couldn't pick up a little worm yesterday to eat it but was tucking into some toasted maize chicken treat mixed up with some water.

This 1 though



she is reluctant to do anyrhing. Her beak is fine and she can drink but isn't eating and she just stands there like she is in these photos.

They have both had a 'pick me up' tonic which I got from Lillico and its called poultry nutri drops.

Has anyone seen this before?

[Glutton4...]

Poor little wotsits. They'll be in shock. Best keep them warm and quiet, whilst they, hopefully, recover. Fingers crossed for them.

[kathyd]

I think what I'd do for now is to staple or attach something to at least part of your integral run to make it 'private' so the chooks can hide away and feel a bit more secure... the one with the tail down looks depressed and terrified, and I don't know about your's but mine won't sit inside their house during the day except to lay. So try to provide a hiding place for them, if you don't have one already? At the moment she still looks very exposed...

[sternyboy]

I've got another house today with a run underneath as I only had a house before and they free ranged about 100m squared, so shall I board around the wire mesh a bit?

The other one with the wonky beak (which I was most worried about) is roaming around the whole run as normal and I'm happy to say I can feel seed in her crop