Best Chicken defense gun

[Bigtom Turkey]

Trying to avoid this situation again....

I mean you did get a good shot of it

 

[Tundrawooky]

Unfortunately no

 

[samanthaoverton]

Cona bear trap. I've seen a video online and it snapped the foxes neck...dead..dead..dead. a neighbor on a neighboring country Rd lost 30 chickens near me. Hubby says he is bringing his gun on the way to work and killing it if he sees it.

 

[samanthaoverton]

I wonder if this would qualify for the calendar??

Trying to avoid this situation again....

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I use leg traps as they wont go in a box trap caught three and have all threes tails

 

[samanthaoverton]

I use leg traps as they wont go in a box trap caught three and have all threes tails

No fox skin rug for your bedroom floor? Ah come on, would be nice on the feet in the Winter

 

[Poultrybonkers]

No fox skin rug for your bedroom floor? Ah come on, would be nice on the feet in the Winter

Getting the skin off I nearly threw up from the smell...and I have a stomach of iron but the smell of the inside of foxes was something else lol so tails it was

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Electric Wire fence keeps all predators out.

 

[BlueBaby]

If you are worried about shooting it because you are too close to neighbor's, have you thought about taking up archery? A bow and arrow won't make that noise. You will have to practice though, so that your aim get's good.

 

[Ridgerunner]

their are other houses nearby

I admire someone that can think when excited. Many people can't.

It is hard to get a clear shot at a fox. They see and hear so well and stay alive by being alert. Dad got one with a .22 by ambushing one. He understood it's pattern (showing up at dawn and grabbing one about a half hour after they came out of the hen house in the morning). A friend got one while squirrel hunting. He was sitting quietly under a tree and a fox stumbled on him. Probably a 12 gauge, that was his squirrel gun. I'd guess #4 shot. These were in the country where you had clean lines of fire. I've passed up a lot of shots at different critters because there were horses or cattle in pastures I couldn't see into because of trees in a fence row, let alone people's houses.

I've never tried to trap a fox. I remember someone on here several years back that did regularly. He had a proper fox-sized live trap and built around it with those rectangular hay bales so the only way the fox could approach was through the front. He used his rooster as bait, keeping it behind the trap. He figured that was one way the rooster could help protect his flock.

You might try googling "how to trap a fox" and see what you find. Some people can trap anything, you just need to know how. Details can be important.