...The fox ate another chicken today. Actually, he ate a baby chick (now an adolescent, really). The chickens were all safe in their coop. No wire was messed with, there were no gaps in the coop, and no holes where a varmint got in.
How is this possible?????
1) Did the fox somehow pry back the bottom of the coop door and swipe a hapless chick that was nearby? It doesn't seem possible... foxes don't have hands, and besides, if you pull on the bottom in just the right spot the gap is less than an inch (a cement block is now firmly anchoring the bottom of the coop door.)
2) Did the baby chick follow Austin out this morning, unnoticed by him? Perhaps the chick was hanging out on the outside of the coop, waiting to go back in.
Obviously, we'd prefer for the snatched chick to have been an escapee than for the fox to have breached our Fort Knox. Only time will tell.
