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I think I have a fox in my pasture. I saw canid type footprints, discovered a den, it seems solitary, and I found a tidy food cashe. Even though it is close, it hasn't appeared that it makes a move on my poultry. I've seen evidence that he occasionally comes to clean up any turkey food on the ground, when snow came, but turkeys are 20 ft up and chickens are put away. I have a live trap out just in case. If it leaves my birds alone, I won't kill it, apparently they will kill raccoons in their territory here and coons are the bigger issue for me because they climb and the fox can't climb to where the birds roost and the Jake's are big so he won't be bothering them during the day since they mob everything together. It better behave, though, or the neighbors who also have chickens might also kill it on sight.
I use to think coons and fox did not co-exist well, but a trip into the holy land
(federally stolen ancestral land taken be force to turn into a playground for the others)
I found a coon den about 25 yards from a fox den... I still had plenty of both all year.
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