Weird fox..

I fear that when I return to work soon I will have to keep the chooks locked up more :-( Also, there is little that will keep a really determined fox at bay, they will dig, jump, chew through wood and pull at wire.. we lost lambs to a fox many years ago and he was jumping over electric fence with them. Bay_beastie, sounds like I missed something there can you enlighten me?? Kokopelli sorry about Superpig, what a great name. I lost my piggies to rats :-(
 
It's nature. We've not left much room for it, so it has to fit in around us when it can.

It was a strange fox though, i will give you that. But all this hate is just unnecessary and pointless. Make your chickens safe. They are not natural, they are human made really. They wouldn't last 2 minutes in the wild. The fox is natural, although it was introduced in large numbers by men with guns and dogs who wanted some more fun. So i suppose we should look to ourselves, always meddling where it's not needed, for the cause of the chicken massacres.
 
not quite tru somethingorother... the domestic fowl (gallus gallus domesticus) is descended from the Jungle fowl that are native to rain forest in in south america and parts of africa. all humans have done is what they've done to the wolf, the antelope and the horse... bred and bred and bred it until it suits the purpose they desire.
 
If something attacks your stock, then you drive it off and/or shoot it, I don't have a problem with foxes, but I do have a problem with my stock being taken..

Those of you who don't have livestock, the feeling when you get home and see all your birds killed and dying is the same feeling as walking through your front door and finding your hoiuse has been turned over and items stolen..
 
bj_cardiff said:
Those of you who don't have livestock, the feeling when you get home and see all your birds killed and dying is the same feeling as walking through your front door and finding your house has been turned over and items stolen..
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I quite agree. Last Christmas I came back from a Carol Service to find my hay barn ransacked & my cockerel running around the paddock like the Road Runner. When the security light came on I could see the fox behind him & he had barely any tail feathers left.
I looked up to the beam where they had been perched before I'd gone out to find it empty. All five hens & a bantam cockerel gone. On my way back to the house I found the headless body of a hen I'd has for 8 years. They were pets.

To cut a long story short, the cockerel returned to the barn & stayed there for days crowing. When I went to try & encourage him out, I climbed up the stack & I found the intact body of a hen, her neck broken. He had stood by her, willing her to get up. That was one of the most upsetting aspects of the whole attack.
 
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