A distinct lack of appreciation!

So...having a pesky Fox about is definitely affecting all our lives and especially the chooks in Fort Yudhisthira who have been locked up for weeks now.

Coming home one night last week after dark, we startled a pack of around six Fox cubs playing on the road down the hill.

Aaaaaaaaaaggggghhhh! No wonder this adult is determined to find food! It looks like there is no end in sight to our Fox troubles.

This week I have built a new portable chicken coop...

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...and have been fixing up the fence around the old, overgrown pen down near the garden. We are going to move the Fort Yudhisthira chooks down nearer to us and into a pen where there is undergrowth for them to scratch about in.

We will be able to partition part of the old pen off and move the Silkies out of the garden coop and into there if we go away for the weekend. All the chooks will be in Fox proof accommodation.

It's been a lot of work and I don't think the chooks appreciate all the efforts we are going to to keep them safe!