"MC Emily" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote

We're down to one hen again :-(

Oh no, not that damned fox again? Who is left? Is it your old girl or
the
new one?

Milady. Her pol chick, the beautiful and elegant Jubilee, was killed. Milady
is traumatised, won't leave the kitchen windowsill unless we're around.
Spouse fitted 18" vertical rails 3" apart along the corner where it was
getting in by jumping across from the wooden fence of a neighbour. It was a
mangy thing but didn't give a cuss about us ...

Mary