JackE I had no intention of spawning such a debate and I wanted to cool the argument before people started taking offence, and only gave my opinion on the matter, if no one but farmers and soldiers who need guns had them the world would be much better. You made way too many insults and...
I'm in the UK, so can own a gun and it's is not a RIGHT to bear arms, I'm not a huge fan of them, you have more gun crimes per hundred people than anywhere else, anyway, can we leave the subject now
No problem :) how about throwing knives, there are no laws against those along as its in you own home, you can get a set cheaply and google methods on how to use them. After about an hour of practice on some sort of target then you will be quite a good aim. Then if the fox is really lying down...
Electric fencing helps, so do goats but I can not vouch for them personally. What I would do is get a bb gun (google them I don't know what they're called in the states, but basically a pellet gun.) In the Uk you can't get guns but you can get those with sniper sights etc. You can also get paint...
The only people who can get guns here are certified farmers with shotguns who can prove that the livestock is affected, they mainly shoot badgers though, most far,s have goats so the hickeys are mainly fine.
since I last posted we have got electric fence and kept them in a small very secure run while we are out, it has worked, we have had no more problems, as for larger preditors I'm in the uk so I have no such problems because there are no large predators. The pygmy goats produce testosterone which...
On Thursday, my beautiful Polish Sophie was killed by a fox. I was very upset and to prevent any other deaths I secured the coop and closed in there run, they have the walls of protection that I closed of to the inner most secure wall. One hour ago I looked out the window and saw a fox about to...