Plus 7 , minus 1

And the latest broody hen has managed to produce some chicks.  She sat on 11 eggs and 9 chicks have emerged.   So here they are at 3 days old, following her round cheeping madly  at anything  unusual 






So after a  couple of days inside where they hatched, she and they have been moved to their new house and  run.  They all roost in the house and the chicks are still small enough that they roost under their mother.

So that is the  Plus 9 , what about the minus one  ?

On checking the food and water in the  run that is netted completely I found this .

I don't think  a predatory bird could have got in. And all the hens and chicks disappear into the bushes when anything suspicious (like a person) appears ,  so I assume it must have been a rat , and the chick was in the wrong place at the wrong time