The gardeners came this morning and when I went to check the coop on my way out to work the chunks of skin, feathers and the head were gone form the lawn. I'm guessing they mowed over the feathers and they got sucked up with the grass. They either mowed over the head and it was sucked up also or they cleared it. Anyway, there is much less evidence of what happened as of this morning. I'm glad I did the rounds last night because it would have been harder to figure out what happened otherwise. All that was left today was few feathers.
My concern now is that whatever hit Duchess now knows a good place to get chicken easily. It will be back at some point for seconds. Even if I DO lock the chickens up at night I'm going to have to make sure the coop is predator proof because whatever it was that got them is probably going to be more persistent next time. (Especially if it really likes chicken)
The sad life of a prey animal... At most it's only been a few days since she died and already there is almost no evidence that she ever even existed. Well, I mean, I have the chicks at least, so she lives on though them. But her body is pretty much totally gone.
I'll be much more careful with her offspring.
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