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> as it's just natural for them to kill now with the intent of coming back to collect the bodies for later consumption.

Do they actually ever come back for more corpses? Or are these, like the article might suggest, actually cases of the fox defending itself from the chicken's ganging up?

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Hens are usually easily frightened especially by a fox. Maybe in the case of 6,000 hens being in one area as article suggested, they can easily swarm a fox...but your average neighborhood coop with less than a dozen...no way.

They return which is sometimes the source of their undoing - should someone set a trap at the scene of the original crime.

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