elainens
Chirping
- Oct 4, 2011
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Your coop and run must be "Alcatraz ". No holes on top, sides or bottom. Preferably put wire or heavy boards all around the perimeter of coop and run. Collect your urine and spread around the perimeter of your coop and run. Fox hate human urine, if you know where its den hole is,(find it!) deposit some human urine there too, often , sends a message to move on fox, find a new home. Wherever you know it likes to hang out or kills,Pee there too. Dont let you chickens out early in the morning, get them in before dusk. This is war. Flashing predator eyes (you can find on amazon)attached to your coop at fox eye level and several other areas. I found to move these periodically. They are solar powered so make sure they are in sun.We have always had foxes around gray's and reds we've had our chickens for just over 10 years and never had an issue with the gray fox or the red fox until 2 months ago when the red fox had killed 2 Hens.Then this past week we've seen 2 red fox one looks sickly it's tail is like a stick no hair on it and a normal looking one. One of them got another hen and was in the process of trying to grab another Hen 2 days later when my Husband ran up and scared it off and it let go of our Hen she's unharmed.. Since then we've shut them in our small run that my Husband covered the top with wire. They're relentless coming constantly all day when my Husband isn't standing guard outside with them and we hear our Rooster going crazy crowing our German Shepherds run look out the bedroom window and then run to the backdoor to get outside to run over to the pen we have chased the Healthy looking fox off all day! He keeps coming back we see where it killed a morning dove as it's got feather collection piles just inside the woods Help help help!! Our chickens have always free ranged every afternoon and now their not able to leave the run.any suggestions on how to get them to move on??? I truly appreciate any suggestions that would help us save our flock.