!@#*^%#$ Foxes

[wamtazlady]

I also chose electric poultry netting after losing my flock to foxes last year. So far is it well worth the price I paid. One neighbor has lost 4 hens and another saw a fox run off with one of his hens. All my new pullets and baby chicks are safe and sound.

 

[foxhaterone]

Just had a Fox kill one of my hens and I chased it all the way to my neighbors property with a star picket but he lost me in the deep grass.. I have applies for a gun licence and I'll blow his head off next time I see him

 

[wamtazlady]

Just had a Fox kill one of my hens and I chased it all the way to my neighbors property with a star picket but he lost me in the deep grass.. I have applies for a gun licence and I'll blow his head off next time I see him

The neighbors shot and killed the foxes in my neighborhood. Unfortunately that left the territory open to the next fox looking for a place to hang out. The new fox got one of the neighbor's hens and has been snacking at another neighbor's barnyard across the road. The fox would have trouble getting my girls as I have a pretty secure coop and electric poultry netting.

 

[foxhaterone]

The neighbors shot and killed the foxes in my neighborhood.  Unfortunately that left the territory open to the next fox looking for a place to hang out.  The new fox got one of the neighbor's hens and has been snacking at another neighbor's barnyard across the road.  The fox would have trouble getting my girls as I have a pretty secure coop and electric poultry netting. 

It is a little different here in Australia once you kill the male the female struggles to feed her babies and generally all but one die.

 

[foxhaterone]

It also makes room for a new male who can sometimes kill the babies of the old male

 

[Bizzybirdy]

We got rid of them by shooting them. Couldn't trap them...they were smarter than me about that. Now am trying to get rid of a Fishers Cat (weasel)...far worse than the foxes. It has devastated my chickens in just 5 days, an awful Vampire like predator.

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[shortgrass]

We got rid of them by shooting them. Couldn't trap them...they were smarter than me about that. Now am trying to get rid of a Fishers Cat (weasel)...far worse than the foxes. It has devastated my chickens in just 5 days, an awful Vampire like predator.

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Are those the ones that do the head chewing? We don't have them here, but I had to ask because they sound like jerks, just massacre for heads and leave the bodies?

I guess I don't worry about the foxes; I know there are tons of them, along with possum, coons, coyote.. Our dogs

I think they stay away from our chickens just because of the coyotes, really. And our dogs keep the coyotes away from the house and coop... I guess the dogs do their job keeping other dogs away

 

[aart]

Quote: Weasels are mostly blood drinkers. They bite the neck to drink the blood, usually leaving the rest of carcass intact.

 

[Alex1010]

Just shoot them your doing yourself a favor and anybody who has chickens As well

 

[shortgrass]

Weasels are mostly blood drinkers. They bite the neck to drink the blood, usually leaving the rest of carcass intact.

That stinks

I've had more anger having to follow trails of feathers or finding a body than I do when they just disappear.

I'd rather they not get hurt at all, of course, but it just makes me so mad when they do that. If I'm going to feed the natives, the least they could do is eat it all