Newfowler1
Songster
So what does a fox kill typically look like? It must have been interrupted? No other injury beyond a fatal neck puncture.
I Lost my best layer the other day. It was very overcast and rather dark out midday. I must have just missed the kill by an hour or two as she was still warm
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She had only one large puncture wound on her neck about diameter of a #2 pencil. The wound was right over an artery on the lower side of her neck. Very few feathers at the kill site and only a small amount of blood. I thought she could have been drug there but saw little evidence of it in the surrounding brush. She was in a shallow gully but not far from the open area where they graze for bugs and stuff.
I keep my birdies penned up at night. Basically I let them out an hour or two after dawn and herd the Guineas and ducks up about an hour before dark or dusk.
The Guineas do a good job of watching over everyone. They share a coop with a partition down the middle ducks on one side “Goonies”
on the other. I do think my Goonie Birds help and will always have some around.
I thought Fox?? Seems likely. I know I’ve got coon, weasel, mink hawks and occasional eagle around. I’ve had several rather bloody massacres with the Guinea and 3 ducks earlier but few if any are ever eaten, just killed. Not unlike a weasel or mink.
I’m pissed of course but not going on a blood letting of critters. I moved here for the wildlife, all of them, the good, the bad and the not so nice lol. I foolishly went after the coons and feel I made a huge mistake. I’ve killed & hunted enough and don’t want to kill anything anymore (unless it’s absolutely necessary).
Regrettably I am setting up live traps on several animal runs I believe to be fox judging from experience and urine smell. If I catch any adult Fox or Racoon I will attempt to cover the trap and relocate them 15 miles or more away. If they don’t cooperate I’m afraid they may have to be euthanized. Frankly I hope the traps are empty
I Lost my best layer the other day. It was very overcast and rather dark out midday. I must have just missed the kill by an hour or two as she was still warm
.She had only one large puncture wound on her neck about diameter of a #2 pencil. The wound was right over an artery on the lower side of her neck. Very few feathers at the kill site and only a small amount of blood. I thought she could have been drug there but saw little evidence of it in the surrounding brush. She was in a shallow gully but not far from the open area where they graze for bugs and stuff.
I keep my birdies penned up at night. Basically I let them out an hour or two after dawn and herd the Guineas and ducks up about an hour before dark or dusk.
The Guineas do a good job of watching over everyone. They share a coop with a partition down the middle ducks on one side “Goonies”
on the other. I do think my Goonie Birds help and will always have some around. I thought Fox?? Seems likely. I know I’ve got coon, weasel, mink hawks and occasional eagle around. I’ve had several rather bloody massacres with the Guinea and 3 ducks earlier but few if any are ever eaten, just killed. Not unlike a weasel or mink.
I’m pissed of course but not going on a blood letting of critters. I moved here for the wildlife, all of them, the good, the bad and the not so nice lol. I foolishly went after the coons and feel I made a huge mistake. I’ve killed & hunted enough and don’t want to kill anything anymore (unless it’s absolutely necessary).
Regrettably I am setting up live traps on several animal runs I believe to be fox judging from experience and urine smell. If I catch any adult Fox or Racoon I will attempt to cover the trap and relocate them 15 miles or more away. If they don’t cooperate I’m afraid they may have to be euthanized. Frankly I hope the traps are empty
