Tonight a red fox was trying to get access to my chicken yard. See the photo--it is a 5 foot high chain link fence--can a fox get over that in your experience? Because I know it can't get under the fence.
Inside the chain link fence is another chicken yard, locked at night, with a 5 foot high welded-wire field fence. I don't have a locked henhouse--most of my birds sleep in the big tree in the photo and the older ones sleep in the shed with no door. If a fox could breech the two fences, it could definitely get at the older hens--but no way could it go up the tree for the younger birds.
My cousin tells me once a fox has spotted chickens, it wont ever give up until it gets them. Is that true?
I've had these birds going on 4 years now and I haven't lost a single bird to a predator. The fences are good and there's lots of cover to hide from birds of prey. But you never know.
Inside the chain link fence is another chicken yard, locked at night, with a 5 foot high welded-wire field fence. I don't have a locked henhouse--most of my birds sleep in the big tree in the photo and the older ones sleep in the shed with no door. If a fox could breech the two fences, it could definitely get at the older hens--but no way could it go up the tree for the younger birds.
My cousin tells me once a fox has spotted chickens, it wont ever give up until it gets them. Is that true?
I've had these birds going on 4 years now and I haven't lost a single bird to a predator. The fences are good and there's lots of cover to hide from birds of prey. But you never know.
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