Red Fox, Grey Fox, Coyotes ???

[mike harrington]

I just had a run in with 2 red foxes. Got home from work let the ladies and their man so they can forge around the yard then not even 5 minutes later all hell broke loose. 1 girl was badly damage and 1 MIA and 3 others ended up coming back from housing in the woods. The Rooster was perfectly fine....of course. I had a split second shot at one of the foxes but only buzzed his tower instead. So we shall see if the one makes it through the night and if they try to come back tomorrow.

 

[centrarchid]

If you did not scare them good they are likely to come back within half hour or so to police up what they missed on previous run. Otherwise be waiting for them to come back about same time tomorrow. You might be able to find where they cache carcasses by looking in a radius of about 200 yards. especially if birds are big. More than once I have been able to follow a trail of fox processing a chicken as if went to find the cache sites. My dog was really good at finding cache sites and retrieving carcasses.

Last fox fun I had last week had fox kill rooster on ground after dark. Dog almost caught in high weeds and we kept rooster. Fox has not come back into that area since. Game cameras have not picked up and rabbits acting normal.

 

[Trish1974]

If you did not scare them good they are likely to come back within half hour or so to police up what they missed on previous run. Otherwise be waiting for them to come back about same time tomorrow.

SO TRUE!!! I spent 2 weeks trying to hunt a fox that was coming through the area at the same time every morning. A couple times he saw me and ran off, a couple times I shot and missed and he ran off, and one morning when I had the perfect shot on him my gun jammed, of course scaring him off. Ten minutes later he came back with help. A smaller fox, perhaps his mate or a kit from last year, that came up the west side of the property, of course leading me away from the area where my chickens are kept, and at the same time he sneaked around back. I heard my hen's alarm call and as I was running back to them I saw him run off. They are super sneaky - do not underestimate them!

 

[mike harrington]

If you did not scare them good they are likely to come back within half hour or so to police up what they missed on previous run. Otherwise be waiting for them to come back about same time tomorrow. You might be able to find where they cache carcasses by looking in a radius of about 200 yards. especially if birds are big. More than once I have been able to follow a trail of fox processing a chicken as if went to find the cache sites. My dog was really good at finding cache sites and retrieving carcasses.

Last fox fun I had last week had fox kill rooster on ground after dark. Dog almost caught in high weeds and we kept rooster. Fox has not come back into that area since. Game cameras have not picked up and rabbits acting normal.

I haven't seen them any more since I buzzed that ones tower with my .22. The gray one that got attack died this morning.

 

[chickens really]

Just had my second Fox attack... Dogs were locked up and Birds out without protection from my trained Dogs...Took two Chicks from my Broody Hen...3 weeks old this week...
Did not get my Ducks...I have a Yorkie trained to wrangle Birds and she attacked the Fox... I almost fainted seeing her on the Fox...Fox shook her off and ran with my Chick...

 

[centrarchid]

Just had my second Fox attack... Dogs were locked up and Birds out without protection from my trained Dogs...Took two Chicks from my Broody Hen...3 weeks old this week...
Did not get my Ducks...I have a Yorkie trained to wrangle Birds and she attacked the Fox... I almost fainted seeing her on the Fox...Fox shook her off and ran with my Chick...

Fox will be back same time following day as part of route. May also come in sooner to probe for ways around dog.

 

[chickens really]

Fox will be back same time following day as part of route. May also come in sooner to probe for ways around dog.

We have permission to go next door and kill them all....