How to get rid of fox?

[woodmort]

As someone who has no qualms about dispatching predators and garden raiders with my trusty .22, I do understand why some people do not wish to own firearms. I suggest you check with your local police or fish and game for someone who is willing to capture and remove your fox. In NYS there are licensed trappers that will do this, sometimes at a price, but are more than willing. That fox will not leave your chickens along otherwise until it has eliminated them all and is sure you haven't replaced them.

BTW foxes do not hibernate.

 

[ivan3]

woodmort wrote: BTW foxes do not hibernate

They do remain very active, caching their prey on the frozen surface under a bit of snow and debris (a rabbit below). On the other hand, such weather makes the placement of snares much less problematic.

 

[Miltonchix]

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Some folks simply cannot use guns for dispatch. I trap both in urban and suburban settings when I dispatch animals all year long I rarely use firearms mostly because I choose not to put holes in the pelts I sell. When I am able to use guns it is like you say they are merely one of many tools at my disposal. Northern Va is quiet built up urbanized some folks just grew up without guns and theY are not familiar / comfortable being around them.

The thought of NOT having guns around I guess is as forgeign to me as having them is to some. While my father was not a big hunter, I was taught to shoot as soon as I was big enough to hold the weapon. I did the same for my children. DW was one of the "guns are scary", still is to an extent. But we reached an agreement real quick. There are guns in my house and EVERYONE know how to use them. SAFELY. She won't plink with me, target shooting is no fun for her. But if the neighbors pit bull heads toward our coop....................she becomes Rambo!!

 

[The Tinman]

For those of you that have neighbors that might get upset at the sound of gunfire. You can use a round called 22 cb longs. You can fart loader than it goes pop. The down side is you will have to load and reload manually. It is also very slow but good enough to handle small critters.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

We're on fox patrol now. Something took ALL 12 of my babies.

Later it got a hen but we scared it off, tonight it attacked my rooster, but I think it might have gotten more than it bargained for! When we saw it the fox and the rooster were going at it! We scared off the fox, finally corralled the rooster to tend its wounds, and now DH is sitting outside hiding with a shotgun. Wish us luck, this sucker is not going to go away now.

 

[ivan3]

I have WHAT in my yard? wrote: Something took ALL 12 of my babies

Sorry for your loss. Our neighbor's 13 SLW pullets were taken by a pair of foxes in the space of fifteen minutes (first day they got to go out, neighbor went in to cut up treats for them), only a very few feathers in the yard and our neighbor only got a glimpse of one of the foxes as it took off through the high grass and into the woods.

I found what was left of the cache in our woodline ~150yds from the back of neighbor's house (the brighter areas around the cedar are 7 neat piles of nothing but feathers - other six piles under nearby cedar). I found the den at the base of a big snag another two hundred yards away.

I'd guess it will return within 48hr.s but, if not, go look for a cache site and the den will be in the general vicinity.

Good luck!​

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

We searched everywhere for sign one of those babies to no avail.

I actually suspected raccoon for that one since I could not figure out how a fox could have gotten into that coop.

The baby coop now lives INSIDE the garage. Anyway, we saw the fox last night and rescued the roo, (He looks very strange now since e is totally missing his tail!)

Any other hints on how to hunt down the den?? Or any to eliminate it other than having to see the fox? Would fox eat antifreeze?? We has some luck using a needle to laod a ping pong ball with antifreeze and shooting it down ground hog holes. Dogs and cats could not get to it but ground hogs apparently would chew into it because they vanished.

 

[aprophet]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

We searched everywhere for sign one of those babies to no avail.

I actually suspected raccoon for that one since I could not figure out how a fox could have gotten into that coop.

The baby coop now lives INSIDE the garage. Anyway, we saw the fox last night and rescued the roo, (He looks very strange now since e is totally missing his tail!)

Any other hints on how to hunt down the den??
I do not worry about finding dens I simply trap and dispatch as I get to them it is easier / quicker if you set more then 1 trap at a time grey fox frequently travel in pairs and me catching 3-4 in 1 night at the same place is not unheard of




Or any to eliminate it other than having to see the fox? Would fox eat antifreeze??

this is a bad idea it is really non selective and hard to control what eats it


We has some luck using a needle to laod a ping pong ball with antifreeze and shooting it down ground hog holes. Dogs and cats could not get to it but ground hogs apparently would chew into it because they vanished.
so if someone / something killed the groundhogs about the same time you put the ping pong balls down the hole , it is not unheard of for a red fox, bobcat,coyote to find/eat groundhogs​

 

[aprophet]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

We searched everywhere for sign one of those babies to no avail.

I actually suspected raccoon for that one since I could not figure out how a fox could have gotten into that coop.

I snare fox in trapping season a grey fox will walk through a hole 6' round and barely touch either side if you tighten the hole up to 4 1/2"-5" they do not make it through they will slip through a really small hole, a small to medium size coon will go through a 4-5" hole without even trying hard to get through

The baby coop now lives INSIDE the garage. Anyway, we saw the fox last night and rescued the roo, (He looks very strange now since e is totally missing his tail!)

Any other hints on how to hunt down the den?? Or any to eliminate it other than having to see the fox? Would fox eat antifreeze?? We has some luck using a needle to laod a ping pong ball with antifreeze and shooting it down ground hog holes. Dogs and cats could not get to it but ground hogs apparently would chew into it because they vanished.​

 

[littlekit]

Thank you to everyone who has replied. I appreciate all your comments and suggestions! We have an electric poultry fence and Kube, but I cannot seem to get it to read above the 2000 light on the meter.
Is this enough, anyone know? And how often do I have to change the non-solar battery?