Chickens gang up to peck fox to death in coop
A brave flock of chickens have banded together to kill a fox who managed to sneak into their coop.
The fox is thought to have entered the henhouse at an agricultural school in northeast France at dusk last week, and became trapped inside by an automatic hatch door.
Students at Le Gros Chene school in Brittany discovered the body of the animal when making their rounds to check on the chickens the following morning.
“There, in the corner, we found this dead fox,” Pascal Daniel, head of farming at the school, told the AFP. “There was a herd instinct and they attacked him with their beaks.”
The free-range, organic farm where the incident took place has a chicken coop that is open all day, and the hens spend most of the daytime outside unless they’re laying eggs.
The last time a fox visited one of the school’s chicken coops, more than a year ago, it turned out much worse for the hens, Mr Daniel said.
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