Christmas Eve ended badly after a lovely day

We drove down to Tauranga to see Shawn and Tracy and the boys for Christmas. I was going to keep the girls in their coop since the one with the long comb (which I've now called Lancôme) - who I think was the one who fell in the trough, has been lethargic and sitting around under the feijoa trees, not eating or drinking much plus she much less brave. She was the bravest of the two. Anyway - they looked like they were dying to get up so I let them out and off we went.

It was an easy drive thank goodness, no traffic, and we stopped at Matamata for coffee. We goth to their place about 12. Archie had grown up so much - he's very cute. And Carlos was eager to show us how clever he was on his tractor and balance bike. I got him a little suitcase and he really loved it, phew!

Carlos fell asleep after lunch - all the action!!

We had a nice lunch and headed home around 4pm. Home in time to do the horse poo picking. The hens had started following me into the paddock lately which was nice. The sick one - Lancôme had gone into the coop early, and L'Oreal (lol) was happy pecking just outside the wash bay. I was only about 50m away thank goodness when I heard the commotion - I looked up and saw L'Oreal being attacked by the neighbours dog. I started yelling and ran towards him. He looked up at me then ran off thank goodness. As I got to L'Oreal all I could see was her lying with one wing in the air in a pool of feathers. I thought she was dead. I picked her up and yelled out to George to go and tell the neighbours to keep their friggin dog on their own property. I held her for ages until I felt her breathing a little more deeply, then popped her down. She was limping and had lost a lot of feathers but I couldn't see any blood thank goodness. All I could do was put her in the coop and hope.

The next morning she was still alive, and she's been very quiet, sleeping a lot but eating a little. Now I am wondering if the other one was chased or scared or grabbed by the dog earlier in the week also. Boy oh boy!!!!

The girls earlier the previous day enjoying their new chookateria. I've reported the attack to animal control. Hopefully they'll get them to realise they can't let their dogs run loose.