- May 30, 2008
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Well This am i go outside and I have 5 less turkeys then i did last night, there about 7-8 weeks old. Apparently I forgot to close them in after the thunderstorm. My falt i know cant blaim anybody but myself. I check in on them when i got home about 8 pm from work and the coop doors were closed due to the wind so all the turkeys were setting beside there house when i showed up, So i opened the doors for them to go inside and eat drink etc, and would check back in on them in a littlebit. Well i got to cooking dinner and what not and forgot that i didnt get them closed up as i normally do it when i get home. So this am i find 4 turkeys huddeled under the chicken coop. The rest are POOF gone. I see a spot of a few feathers and then see 1 body. The only body i found had its hear ripped off and the guts parshally eaten. So i take the body and rig the one live trap i have with the remenants of the body. About 6 pm that afternoon im at Home depot and i get a call from my neighbor and he says he just saw a fox with one of my turkeys in its mouth run by him, unfortunally he was unarmed at the moment as he would have helped, as were both eliminating predators currently. So now im down to 3 turkey left.
So to the point what the best way to catch foxes and not the rest of the critters. we have been preditor free for a wile but all tractors or cages are locked up tight at night. I would like to free range the turkeys and guineas but a fox at 6pm in broad daylight make me think thats going to be difficult. I think i know the answer to the night time problem and ordered an automattic door thing today for the turkey coop, but what about the day time predator issues, any thoughts.
I looked at the electrofied fencing any body use that for keeping predators out during the daylight hours, or comments on it at all. I found 42" x 165' IIRC for 169.00 that would do a 50x50 area with our other wood fence on 1 side. By the way anybody have polts for sale close to Va Breach.
So to the point what the best way to catch foxes and not the rest of the critters. we have been preditor free for a wile but all tractors or cages are locked up tight at night. I would like to free range the turkeys and guineas but a fox at 6pm in broad daylight make me think thats going to be difficult. I think i know the answer to the night time problem and ordered an automattic door thing today for the turkey coop, but what about the day time predator issues, any thoughts.
I looked at the electrofied fencing any body use that for keeping predators out during the daylight hours, or comments on it at all. I found 42" x 165' IIRC for 169.00 that would do a 50x50 area with our other wood fence on 1 side. By the way anybody have polts for sale close to Va Breach.