Catching a fox

[keirys]

Whether you can or not will depend on your skill level

I'm guessing it would be effective though.

If all else fails I guess I can poke it with a broadhead a few dozen times lol

 

[Hotspurious]

Fox by bow? Hmm... Doable, however, that'd take some serious baiting - or luck, imho. I've neer been able to
pattern a fox. The few I've gone after were not creatures of... habit? They're really tough to access sans a dog, in
my experience.

Good luck, however! It'd be a Beowulf-like feet! Perhaps renaming the fox "Grendel" will help the cause...

Hotspurious
Walnut Creek, CA

 

[randerson846]

Ok thanks

 

[birdsss]

fox are tough to catch. last week a fox(s) took 12, 3 month old birds from one of my pens at night. they dug two holes beneath the fencing and carried them off whole. this is the first fox attack in 10 years. like was said above, they are not creatures of habit and are very smart. im really suprised that you guys have had luck catching foxes in cage traps.

 

[HEChicken]

fox are tough to catch. last week a fox(s) took 12, 3 month old birds from one of my pens at night. they dug two holes beneath the fencing and carried them off whole. this is the first fox attack in 10 years. like was said above, they are not creatures of habit and are very smart. im really suprised that you guys have had luck catching foxes in cage traps.

I kinda am too. My fox attack was last July and I didn't know what hit me when I went out and found 14 dead birds. It had only been a couple of hours since I was last out there and everything was fine. Next day I heard a sound and ran out there to find two more dead. I laid in wait at the coop, figuring it would be back, and DH went and brought me the .22. I didn't have to wait very long to catch a glimpse and then watched as it snuck closer and closer until it was in range. I had laid one of the dead birds just inside the fence as "bait" and watched as it climbed the fence (2x4 welded wire) like it was a ladder - didn't even go to the trouble of digging in. I knew I got one chance at it or it would be out of there, and fortunately my one shot was lethal.

Did you actually see multiple foxes birdsss? As I understand it, they are solitary creatures and hunt alone so chances are it was only one. After my attack I did a lot of research on them, trying to determine how to prevent another. Carrying them off whole is typical - they like to take them and bury/stash them for future meals. Each of the two days of my attack, one bird was missing, never to be seen again, while the remainder were left lying where they were attacked. I suspect that had I not interrupted it both days, its plan was to return and carry each of the bodies off to be buried/stashed.

 

[JackE]

Yep, that's what they do, kill as many as they can, then carry them off. I've (Really, my birds) had a couple of bad experiences with the fox. Two separate daytime attacks. In the first, I lost nine. You could see where each bird met her end. by the different colored feathers across the yard. But the birds were gone. In the second, I lost seven, but my daughter came home and interrupted the attack, and so there was a couple of badly injured birds still there. I had absolutely no luck with a box trap.
Jack

 

[randerson846]

Thanks the fox that got 2 of mine got one away and then tried to get the other one but it couldn't get it through the fence and it must have pulled its head of be cute when I went out to check it had no he a there very viscous

 

[chickengeorgeto]

... As I understand it, [foxes] they are solitary creatures and hunt alone so chances are it was only one. ....Carrying them off whole is typical - they like to take them and ...stash them for future meals. ....

The dog fox and his vixen both raise the kits. When the fox and vixen are weaning kits, as soon as they make a kill they bring it back to the den, drop it and then hurry off to make another kill. If hunting is good a fox den smells like a rendering factory and it looks like a bomb went off in a petting zoo. Ebeneser Scrooge foxes are not.

 

[Hotspurious]

"...looks like a bomb went off in a petting zoo."

Ah... the mental imagery!

Hotspurious
Walnut Creek, CA