Re: missing free range chickens
"pammyT" <fenlandfowl @talktalk.net> wrote in message
news:unFpe.6021$CF.43412@news-
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> Shame on you for not
> shutting them securely away at night.
That's not fair. All the chickens we've had killed by fox have been in broad
daylight.
Diddy said "one evening between late afternoon and dusk,"
The chickens wouldn't have been in their coop at that time. If they had been
killed in their coop there would have been feathers.
Mary
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