On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:16:56 +0000, lloyd wrote:

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:15:20 +0000, Malcolm
wrote:


In article , Bill Grey
writes


If a fox was struggling to survive it might take just the one chicken,
instead , it will kill pretty well all the chickens in a killing frenzy.
Not the act of a starving animal.

No, it is not a "killing frenzy, but the act of an animal that is
killing more than it needs at that particular moment, but no more than
it might need over a period to come. Foxes cache food they can't eat
right then and would, if the hencoop was left undisturbed, return for
more on following night.

I once heard a neighbour had about a dozen chickens lost in a pen and
they blame badgers! Is that possible?

Seems so
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...chickens&meta=

rabbits too!