Fox Trouble

Unfortunately, we've had a bit of a sad week with our pet chooks. On Wednesday, I found one of our ladies dead in the coop, presumably egg-bound, and during Friday night, L awoke, hearing a raucous in the chook yard. Going to investigate, he found one of the hens by the gate (instead of inside the coop) and no sign of Leonard, our rooster. I saw the guilty culprit, a fox, on my walk Sabbath morning. We've never before had to lock up our chooks at night, because, whilst there are plenty of foxes around, we've never been bothered by them. I can only assume that where we disposed of the egg-bound hen alerted the fox to the other chooks. Anyway, it is a bit sad, and we haven't told Miss A yet, she was very fond of Leonard. Needless to say, we will be locking up our chooks from now on.