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Old 08-02-2010, 01:11 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Christina Websell[_2_] Christina Websell[_2_] is offline
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Was clearing the boys' raised bed today and whilst weeding out a bunch of
onions and last year's potatoes that I had forgotten were there, I found
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a chicken breast. (at least, I think it was chicken) It looked quite
fresh, although the soil was undisturbed, so it could have been there a
while and preserved by the cold, I guess.

Do foxes bury 'spare' food to come back to later? I've never found
anything
like this before.

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Yes, foxes do bury spare food, but how it came across a chicken breast (do
you mean a raw one, as bought in a supermarket?) has to be a mystery.
They will bury whole chickens if they've managed a killing spree and can
come back undisturbed to take them all away, but just a breast is odd
(unless they are being fed, they had enough to eat and someone else gave
them one) I can't think of another explanation.