I'm sorry to write the short answer is no.A fox recently took my only large rooster while I wasn’t home. And unfortunately we couldn’t find his body, but we found two fox dens while following the the trail of feathers that was left behind. He was a large silkie rooster and pictures of him are shown below. Is there any way I can keep it away without killing it? All suggestions are welcome! R.I.P Birdie. Thank you for protecting the girls for me
My flock free ranges from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM every day. I’m assuming it happened about 4 or 6 PM, it did happen in daylight. I do have neighbors who have guns, so I’m hoping I won’t be the one shooting the fox. Thank you for your response!
I have kept my girls inside unless I’m out with them, until I can be sure that their roof on their pen is secure and fox proof, I won’t be letting them outside without me being with them, my neighbors have found the two dens, and I’m planning to buy a gun to get it over with. I have motion sensor lights on the pen, I will be buying one for the back of the coop where I found the feathers. Both pens are secure with hardware cloth over the regular metal wire, and there is some in the ground so it cannot dig underneath it. I’m going to make sure my girls and my other boys are safe and secure, until then I won’t be taking my eyes off of them while they’re outside.
I’m planning on buying a gun, I was going to buy a paintball gun but realized if I shot it it would suffer and die in the woods, attracting more predators to kill my girls. I’ve kept them in their coop unless I’m outside watching them, I’ve kept an eye out for paw prints, as it has been muddy and raining, but I haven’t seen any. Until I’m sure it’s dead, I won’t be taking my eye off of my girls.
