Fox in my yard!

[theFox]

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Trap and dispatch the four (or more) litters of kittens that are born every year? HA! It's been tried. The adults are trap saavy and don't even come near the traps. Nobody has ever caught them. Once in a blue moon someone catches a kitten, but it seems the adults teach their offspring to avoid traps too. The fox eats the young cats, and only one or two make it to adult hood each year. And the cats eat the mice that are attracted by everyone's bird feeders.

We have a nice little ecological circle going on here and I'm not really trying to throw it out of whack... but I need to keep my chickens safe. Any thoughts on the roof of my coop and a fox's choice of how to handle it once he sees it (or gets tangled in it)?

No you trap and dispatch the adult cats in the winter when they are very hungry and are far more interested in that fine meal to even worry about it might being a trap.

You get the adult cats there won't be any kittens.

 

[mgw]

Can you get your hands on some 2x4" welded wire? Just use that over your roof then it will keep out foxes and coons and possums.

 

[amberflea]

I have 2 coops and 2 runs, the runs are made out of kennel fencing, never has a fox tried climbing that... possum and coon possible. I only have netting over the top of mine, and nothing's ever gotten in, and I have a camera set down by the coops and also have had several fox, skunk and coon visitors... I honestly don't think fox will climb a fence... you will never catch him in a live trap, a leg hold trap is possible IF you know how to set it up, they are very smart, traps must be boiled, and set with rubber gloves, if any human scent is on it, it won't go near it.. best to shoot it... both pictures are fox by my coop. We shot the fox, and trapped 4 skunks and 6 raccoon this past year.

 

[theFox]

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