When Chickens Attack

Chickens in a school farm in north-western France are believed to have 
grouped and killed a juvenile fox. 
 
The unusual incident in Brittany took place after the fox entered the 
coop with 3,000 hens through an automatic hatch door which closed 
immediately. 
 
"There was a herd instinct and they attacked him with their beaks," 
said Pascal Daniel, head of farming at the agricultural school 
Gros-Chêne. 
 
The body of the small fox was found the following day in a corner of the coop. 
 
"It had blows to its neck, blows from beaks," Mr Daniel told AFP news agency. 
 
The farm is home to up to 6,000 free-range chickens who are kept in a 
five-acre site. 
 
The coop is kept open during day and most of the hens spend the 
daytime outside, AFP adds. 
 
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