Sshhh! You'll give 'em ideas about where all of those missing chooks have gone!!

I do try to spread the joy around tho, never 'missing' one from the same place twice a week.
I've been telling them all that cos their chooks don't live in pens, it's the foxes that're taking them - despite the really
biiig deal the Council made a couple of years ago, telling us all that their Fox Eradication Program had finally been successful and that now they were moving to a 'Keep the Council District Fox Free' program, with a whole lot of Hoo-ha made whenever a fox is seen in the District with daily updates on where it was last seen until it's 'caught'!!

We haven't actually had any 'wild fox' sightings or even hints that there might be one or more around the place in quite some months now...
Mind you, it is getting a little hard to get rid of all the feathers tho, the garbage guy keeps on asking where they all come from?! He's a nice enough guy, but I think it's a good thing he's not a real 'bushie' too, cos so far, he's (apparently) believed me when I've told him the chooks shed all their feathers as they grow bigger, just like snakes shedding their skins, and I collect them all, keeping the good feathers for various projects and only throwing out the manky stuff!