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| Chickens 'teamed up to kill fox' at Brittany farming school | Chickens 'teamed up to kill fox' at Brittany farming school |
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| Chickens in a poultry farm in northwest France are suspected of killing a fox that tried to sneak into their coop. | |
| The fox is thought to have entered the henhouse at an agricultural school at dusk last week and become trapped inside by light-controlled automatic hatch doors that close when the sun goes down. | The fox is thought to have entered the henhouse at an agricultural school at dusk last week and become trapped inside by light-controlled automatic hatch doors that close when the sun goes down. |
| Students at Le Gros Chêne school in Brittany discovered the fox’s body the following morning when making their rounds to check on the chickens. | Students at Le Gros Chêne school in Brittany discovered the fox’s body the following morning when making their rounds to check on the chickens. |
| “There, in the corner, we found this dead fox,” Pascal Daniel, the head of farming at the school, told AFP. “There was a herd instinct and they attacked him with their beaks.” | “There, in the corner, we found this dead fox,” Pascal Daniel, the head of farming at the school, told AFP. “There was a herd instinct and they attacked him with their beaks.” |
| The free-range organic farm has a chicken coop that is open all day, and the hens spend most of the day outside unless they are laying eggs. | The free-range organic farm has a chicken coop that is open all day, and the hens spend most of the day outside unless they are laying eggs. |
| The last time a fox visited one of the school’s chicken coops, more than a year ago, it turned out much worse for the hens, Daniel said. | The last time a fox visited one of the school’s chicken coops, more than a year ago, it turned out much worse for the hens, Daniel said. |
| • This article was amended on 13 March 2019 because an earlier version referred to Brittany as being in northeast France. This has been corrected to northwest. | |
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