Bl**dy Fox

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1275gta

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Just heard a comotion outside and once again fox is trying to kill chickens in broad daylight.

I disturbed one last week with chicken in its mouth as I came in the drive.

Will get done for hunting with dogs at this rate as terriers have just chased it out of the yard.

Sorry probably pointless moan.
 
Go shooting
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Yeah Dad is just trying to find it now. He tried last week but it stood next to road side of field so it couldn't be shot.
 
We lost two chooks to a fox a few weeks back. New fencing has been made and my free range hens now have a couple of hundred square feet of grassed run.

Rifleman has been three times. He's seen the foxes (as there are two), but not managed to get a clean shot of them yet.
 
2 of the chickens at the yard were killed by the foxes only last week, neighbours went out shooting the next night.

Not sure if they succeeded or not though!
 
It is an easy meal for them, so they will just keep coming back.

I like to see the foxes about, but then, I don't have any chickens!

When I had a free flying aviary in my garden, with a Harris Hawk in it, I never saw a single fox....can't imagine why!

(No a hawk can't kill a fox, but it sure has sharp talons!)
 
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Get a cat - ours used to keep them away
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I used to have ten Maran hens, one cockerel and nine cats of which five were yard cats. After one daylight visit by the fox I had one cockerel and nine cats left. Foxy had killed ALL the hens and in fact the cockerel was left in such a nervous state that he never fully recovered.
 
I have loads of cats and a mentallist yard dog that makes enough noise to wake the dead if the wind changes direction, but I have still lost 4 hens and a cockerel to the fox in the daytime. My hens love to wander through the woods, and I think that's where the fox is nabbing them. Also agree with RR - I always thought foxes regarded cats as a bit of a delicacy!
 
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Get a cat - ours used to keep them away
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I always thought that foxes loved cats(to eat)!

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Our old cat used to scare them all away - she also kept next doors GSDs firmly in line. The fox only got in once when she was alive and it got all of them apart from Dora the bantam who attacked the fox and lived to a grand old age of 14 so it's possible I just had aggressive pets
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