Hello from Parker!
I was just reading about the fox issue...
We just moved down to the front range from Summit County, we had 10 acres up there and plenty of room to shoot guns. This seemed to keep all the predators away. We could hear the coyotes and foxes all around, but they stayed away from our property. I had horses, goats, chickens and ducks roaming our property and never lost an animal.
Then, after getting a new job that required that I travel quite a bit, I wasn't able to spend as much time at home or shoot around the property. This is when we started losing some chickens...nothing left but a wing or little pile of feathers. I drew the line when we lost 2 ducks. I think we even lost our barn cat to a coyote or fox...
these foxes were getting very bold...they would run up our driveway, and sit right in front of our porch and wait for us to leave or go inside, then they would slink around the house and nab a chicken, luckily they never got a goat.
I ended up shooting 2 of them and a coyote this past winter. A silenced .22 or the AR does a wonderful job of dropping them with a well placed shot. Sorry for sounding morbid, but when you raise fainting goats, it's not a good idea to let predators stick around.
If anybody needs some help with predator control, let me know. I know how valuable your animals are to you!
So back to introductions...
In Parker on 3 acres, brought some of our fainting goats, our horse Stewie, 3 ducks, and the chickens! (A hodge-podge of layers that we've accumulated...)
We used to run Boers for the 4-H kids, but man, it's a handful running 30 head and kidding season up in the mountains was tough! Frozen ears and frozen babies were not fun. There have been many a night with 4 or more babies running around in the bathroom!
