Fox attack! 12 chickens dead and abandoned.

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Butterscotchbitesfinger said:
I had 11 hens 1 rooster and things seemed perfect. No predators since last season then naturally the wind picked up and a fox-or more than one fox attacked. They have climbed up our coop and gone in between the netting(mesh), this must have happened around 5:30 am as my mother was up getting ready for work she heard a weird crying sort of noise and figured it was a new type of animal. Later that morning at about 6 Mum walked down to let the horses out into their paddock, as she came back she saw what she thought was a log. This log was a Hen-our Plymouth Rock hen Hannah. Absolutely horrified she looked over and saw another hen this time an ISA brown-Scarlett. She wondered why two hens were dead. Her eyes went to the rest of the coop and there lay our beautiful Leghorn, mixes, ISA brown, plaitnum Sussex, New Hampshire red, barnevalda, and all our other beautiful hens-dead. I just want some support as my family and I are a mess. I will share some pics later. And you mark my words those darn foxes will not get any more chickens.
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Oh my word this is horrible! I'm so sorry!!!
 
I am so sorry you lost your beautiful birds.
It sounds to me more like racoon or something, a red fox does not climb a fence.
What would climb a fence would be martin, fisher, grey fox, bobcat to name a few.
If you have or can borrow a trail camera, put it out, whatever it was will probably be back tonight to see if there are more.
 
50-45-1 said:
I am so sorry you lost your beautiful birds.
It sounds to me more like racoon or something, a red fox does not climb a fence.
What would climb a fence would be martin, fisher, grey fox, bobcat to name a few.
If you have or can borrow a trail camera, put it out, whatever it was will probably be back tonight to see if there are more.
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Butterscotch is in Australia. A fox is pretty much the only thing that would do that. She's not somewhere I would expect to see dingoes & the only other predators would be hawks, snakes or maybe big lizards.
 
Butterscotchbitesfinger said:
Oh golly you’ll make me cry. Thankyou so much, that’s so sweet. Every Fox attack we have had has been during the day or one at night where we lost two. Sadly this is the first one where more than one fox has been involved and they have not taken the body’s. The worst part is that the rooster was still half alive. There is nothing like that’s feeling when you want to save something but you know you can’t. He died at 7:10am this morning. It’s so Awful. But I’m sure all Those who have lost birds know the feeling of Sadness after you know your beloved pets won’t be waiting for you the next morning. :( sorry I know it’s a bit of a downer I’m just a mess. We had to put my beloved Great Dane down 2 weeks ago and now to have had a fox kill all my favourite chickens. It’s so sad.
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I'm so sorry. This is just awful. Poor chickens just mind their own business but have so many natural enemies. It makes me so mad and sad for them.
 

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