Chicken killing Fox!!!! HELP!!

[sweetpea123]

Dogs are tricky, and can also be very dangerous. It may take upwards of two years to properly train a dog, and you need two, and they need to be fenced on your property.
Electric fencing works right away, and can be off when the toddler is outside. Unless you already have suitable dogs, go with electric fencing.
Mary

I disagree. We have 7 dogs all random mutts left at the dog park on their own. No training required. They defend the yard instinctively without training. Seriously only one dog knows sit on command. The tried to mess with chicks, but then got in trouble and quit. Now they walk over dogs in the yard. my dog will sometimes bite a chicken tail and then get reprimanded, but she doesn't hurt them. I don't really think you need extensive training for a dog to watch the area

 

[bobbi-j]

WOW!!! I'm going to be getting a livestock defending dog. I have 5 siblings (one of them is 1) Electric would be dangerous for us.

Electric is not dangerous. As Folly's Place states in the quote below, just unplug it when the little ones are out. Once they're old enough, leave it plugged in and they will learn real quick not to touch it.

Dogs are tricky, and can also be very dangerous. It may take upwards of two years to properly train a dog, and you need two, and they need to be fenced on your property.
Electric fencing works right away, and can be off when the toddler is outside. Unless you already have suitable dogs, go with electric fencing.
Mary

 

[JanetMarie]

Since OP lets the chickens sleep outside in a bush by the front door, electric fencing will help at night for a short time, until an owl discovers them.

OP also said they are an animal lover and could not kill the fox.

Regardless, the OP hasn't been back, which is what typically happens on all of the debatable subjects.

 

[WthrLady]

Yes, I know it works, because that's what I've done in the past when I had a problem. They won't come on your property when they hear human voices.

I've had a fox run up and try and take a hen 15 feet from me as I was working in an open field. It knew I was there and didn't care.

The same fox would sit and watch for human patterns. Would watch us come out and work, watch us go in. The game camera would then watch him patrol the farm shortly after the door would shut. Said fox is long gone.

 

[Floppy Pheasant]

"My resident fox" had attacked my chickens in broad daylight...my last two hens were killed at night...I have two adjoining coops with ample space,my upcoming problem is,I have ten Brahma's that are going to be huge,will size deter a predator?? My Ringneck pheasants are never touched.

 

[bobbi-j]

"My resident fox" had attacked my chickens in broad daylight...my last two hens were killed at night...I have two adjoining coops with ample space,my upcoming problem is,I have ten Brahma's that are going to be huge,will size deter a predator?? My Ringneck pheasants are never touched.

Nope. If a fox finds your chickens it will keep returning until you kill it, make it impossible for it to get your chickens, or it wipes out your flock.

 

[Floppy Pheasant]

My husband and I love all animals,we can't just kill a healthy wild animal...I love my chickens,there is nothing I won't do to protect them but killing another animal is something I can't do...thanks to everyone who suggested electric fencing...that's the route we're going.
Regarding trapping and relocating,I can't agree with that because taking an animal out of its "home range" and depositing it somewhere unfamiliar and with no idea of the new territory or predators...I just couldn't do that.

 

[Floppy Pheasant]

bobbi-j.....What about the predator "scat,urine products????"would they or do they work???

 

[bobbi-j]

My husband and I love all animals,we can't just kill a healthy wild animal...I love my chickens,there is nothing I won't do to protect them but killing another animal is something I can't do...thanks to everyone who suggested electric fencing...that's the route we're going.
Regarding trapping and relocating,I can't agree with that because taking an animal out of its "home range" and depositing it somewhere unfamiliar and with no idea of the new territory or predators...I just couldn't do that.

Sounds like a good plan.

 

[Confused a doodle doo]

Dont kill the fox. Buy or borrow a live trap and then have dwr pick it up or relocate it yourself. Thats just my opinion though. Good luck!