Night before last I lost my free range rooster, last night I found out how...
Let the dog out about 1am and she went crazy barking! Walked out to find a fox trotting through the yard back toward the coop. Arggggggg...
Time to go fox hunting!!!!
Hey lakeones
My oldest son lives down the east bank of Plaquemines Parish. It was plenty wild before, but since hurricanes Katrina and Isaac totally destroyed the place, very few people stayed behind to rebuild. Well, it has become the wildest place I have ever seen. Raptors are horrendous with hawks worse and owls right behind them. But possums are the main killer and of course coons right behind them. Coyotes are a big problem and allow me to help if I can. We don't have foxes. I guess they don't like it wet?
When these predators started killing my son's and my mutt chickens and ducks, I began to contact all of the old trappers down here in St. Bernard and in Plaquemine. The most enjoyable discussions I ever had was with these great old trappers! Some of them had become wealthy back in the days of the mighty muskrat.
OK, back to your fox. After writing down all of the tips the old guys gave me, I went on youtube for days and weeks. There is a wealth of information on trapping both foxes and coyotes. Just about everything the trappers had told me about, and with videos, was right there on YouTube. The methods given will work equally well on both foxes and coyotes. They are curious and they are voracious eaters. This makes them easiER to catch. Not easy but easiER. A fox or coyote is not terribly hard to catch in the wild, but one that is already frequenting human areas is even easier. You don't have to concern yourself
as much with covering your scent.
Word of my success led to the folks down Plaquemine and St. Bernard calling me to for help with their predator problems. I've never charged a dime to help them. Being a hunter all of my life and not being able to run behind dogs, paddle pirogues or climb into tree-stands any more, made this an easy jump for an old fat hunter.
Snares work extremely well. Very inexpensive, easy to set and very effective. Just make sure you don't catch unwanted dogs. Some dogs were our targets at times. Here is the trap I would recommend for foxes. It is the
Victor 1.75 4 Coiled Coilspring
. The link below is gonna display all of the sizes. You want the 1.75 I have in bold.
http://www.rpoutdoors.com/viccoilsprin.html
If you have possums or coons the trap I have linked to below is absolutely fantastic! It won't catch dogs or cats. The animal must have hand-like front paws with dexterity to reach inside the trap and pull up the trigger. I'm tellin ya this thing is THE solution for possums and coons. I use fish guts or sardines/tuna with strawberry preserves. Pack it down into the trap and drop a couple of globs around the traps. Done!!!
http://www.rpoutdoors.com/dudpcotr.html
Sorry to have gotten so long winded. With all of the help y'all have given me, I figured this might be helpful?
