don’t you mean wot do chickens treat?
I have to ask Art …do you eat chicken?
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chickensd eat eggs we all know that and they come out of their bums?
Regarding the mourning chickens …. Horses are the same! When one of our ponies died some years ago we had a digger come and dig a hole and the pony was laid to rest. It was like a Disney film. The other horse and a couple of sheep stood around the hole watching what was going on and I swear they had their heads down as a mark of respect. 
Never seen it, but heard tales of nasty fox killing every chicken in the coop, taking just one.
Maybe nothing more than rumour started by pro-foxhunters.
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I can confirm this is true. There is a smallholding beside our horse field and we regularly find chickens heads in our field shelter because the smallholder keeps chickens and the fox often clears out the whole lot.
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Yes, l understand that happens, a fox will kill all the chickens but only take one. They say, it’s the clucking of the hens that sends the fox into a frenzy and it massacres the lot.
I have only lost two hens to the Fox. They were all out free ranging and one just disappeared.
The other was at 9.45 in the morning. I saw a fox with the hen in it’s mouth, l screamed and the Fox dropped it. The hen was dead, probably from shock.
There was one sprightly hen and l heard a lot of clucking… a fox had caught her by her tail feathers. The fox’s grip wasn’t strong enough and the hen got away… there were lots of feathers everywhere. She just ran into the coop run and was fine.
Touch wood, a fox has never got into the coop/run. I check it regularly. In fact, l haven’t see a fox here for years, nor have l seen any fox poo!
A teacher at my children’s school said that an egg was a chicken’s period. They refused to eat eggs for a while after hearing that.
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Annie, Yes, l love chicken but l couldn’t eat my own hens. Besides, laying hens become tough old birds!
One of mine at the moment, a Welsummer is over 7years old. She only lays from the end of March until May. Her eggs are delicious.
She would be really tough to eat!
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We look after some when their people are away.One’s very old and she goes around the garden talking to the chicks she thinks she has.
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One of my hens was ill once, making awful loud rasping noises as if she couldn’t breathe.
My ex partner said if she didn’t recover within an hour, he would put her out of her misery.
I asked him to open her mouth and l got my asthma spray and l sprayed it into her mouth and gave her a quarter of an aspirin.
Within the hour she was fine and she lived a long life!
The lady that I used to clean for had chickens, she used to give me the freshly laid eggs, they never tasted any different to the shop bought ones,
…you still have to feed and look after the chickens, so you don’t get the eggs free…mr Fox is pretty partial to chickens, I’ve worked for many customers who had chickens, the foxes were a real pain and killed every chicken in its hen house…they told me…you need to build the hen house like a fortress, to keep mr and Mrs fox out…on saying that, my customers lived in the heart of the rural country.
I hear they will even eat boiled baby chicken if you shell them for them?