Wow. This article illustrates the law of unintended consequences. Who would have thought that a benign hot-air balloon would become a chicken's mortal enemy?
Abbi Vincent-Lloyd said she lost 30 hens on days when balloons were flying low over her Herefordshire farm.
She claimed the stress of seeing the enormous balloons overhead caused them to run for cover.
It is as they desperately try to find shelter that they bump into each other or their surroundings, exploding the eggs inside them, she said.
This in turn causes an infection, which is thought to have led to scores of them dying.
Miss Vincent-Lloyd, 32, said post mortems of the animals revealed they had died from peritonitis, developed from the egg being released inside them.
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