Country diary: The thin, hungry fox goes for the sleepy hen | Nic Wilson

Country diary: The thin, hungry fox goes for the sleepy hen | Nic Wilson

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Hitchin, Hertfordshire : A rare daytime attack on our chickens led to a standoff. But I could see this animal was suffering in the heatwave High-pitched shrieking shattered the mid-morning calm and I knew, immediately, that there was a killer on the loose.

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