Video: The Brave Chickens Who Killed Mr. Fox

The Brave Chickens Who Killed Mr. Fox

By Jo Toscano 3/03/2010

Birds hatch amazing plan

When a hungry fox sneaked into a chicken coop for his dinner he bit off more than he could chew.

The birds would have normally ended up as piles of feathers, but cockerel Dude and his three hens fought back.

In a scene that could have come straight out of the film Chicken Run, they knocked their perch table on the fox's head then pecked it to death. Owner Michelle Cordell, 43, was stunned when she went to collect eggs from her garden and found the dead fox and Dude strutting around unhurt with hens Izzy, Pongo and Pecky.

The mum-of-two said: "I've never heard of anything like this before. It's like the revenge of the chicken. The little table in the corner of the coop which the chickens perch on had been kicked over and was lying next to the fox's head. It seems they kicked over the table, knocked the fox out and pecked it to death.

"It was not a cub but it was only young and Dude and Izzy are big birds.

"I reared Dude from a little chick and he is very protective of the others. He thinks he is human and chases our dogs around the garden, pecking them."

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A marauding fox came a cropper when he broke into a coop full of killer chickens at a British farm.

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