amynw
Songster
- Apr 25, 2020
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Hello all. I had my very first fox attack tonight. I am beating myself up over it. Ive worked long hard hours lately and fell asleep on the couch and didn’t get the chickens locked up right at dusk as usual. I woke up around 10 pm to an awful awful screech/bark sound. My first thought was a bobcat. I ran back inside to get my husband who had already been asleep way before me from his work shift, because I am a baby and didn’t want to walk all the way to the coop alone after hearing that so close by. I walked down to the coop with him, nothing looked messed up. So we shut the coop up and continued to try to call in whatever it was making this awful noise so we knew what we were dealing with. After about a half hour, a young gray fox came within 50 feet of us. After we found out what it was, it continued its barking for another 20 minutes and we just sat outside listening to it. After, I go back in the coop, count all of my girls and realize, oh no, 1,2,3, only 3 white chickens. No it can’t be. Count again. 3 white chickens. My heart sank. I looked everywhere for her hoping I was wrong as the coop was virtually untouched. We found some of her feathers and her crop contents in the woods but did not find her. My sweet Betty, pure white with the biggest fanned tail. So beautiful. And shes now gone. What do I do now? I cannot believe it, we keep a radio in the coop at night to deter anything like this. I am absolutely heartbroken. Do fox attack during the day as well? Other than locking them up ASAP at end of day, how do I prevent this?