If you go down to the chooks today...

you're in for a big surprise...

As I was typing the post below, Shane (our friend formerly of Murwillumbah, who is now staying with us for a while until he sorts out his housing situation) interrupted me to tell me that one of the girls was missing in action. Well more like missing because it's now inside this rather large and impressive carpet python. One less chook, one fat python.
I am really surprised that the python managed to swallow the chook, which was fully grown. Often a python will kill a chook and then try and swallow it but gives up by the time its distended jaws get to the actual body of the chook and basically back out, leaving the tell tale sign of a very slimy looking chook's neck as evidence of a failed eating attempt, but yeah, just very surprised that this one managed to get it all down.  The snake is not that big, just over two metres I guess, and it won't be going anywhere anytime soon, until that bulge has shrunk in size.