My hubby found him. He's got a burrow about 20 feet behind the run that was hidden pretty well. The trail of feathers led right to it. That's why we never saw anything, he was coming from the blind side of the run, the camera faces the run from the opposite side of where the fox came in at and there's some tall weeds around there. It's a grey fox so he blends in really well. We're going to find all the entrances to the burrow and block them all off but 1 and then flush him out.
That's exactly what I thought. He was trying to put on weight for the winter. Yeah, his @$$ is mine, we'll have him soon. I'll let y'all know when we get him. Thanks for all the info guys, y'all are awesome!
The chicks have arrived - after I called the 1 800 number, waited on hold forever, got someone, told them they were going to die if I didn't get them today, and the person opened up some sort of thing to find them. However, it is not happy newsThe seller did all she could - they had two heat packs and a cup of grogel. The heat packs had gone cold, since it has been over 72 hours since they were shipped. The cup of grogel was flipped upside down with all the grogel still in it, so the chicks couldn't eat it. This tells me that their box was flipped around at one point.
Unfortunately most of them were DOA. I'm trying to bring a couple back from the brink of death, but they're looking rough. One died as I was trying to revive them already.
Amy, the past church, as well as the inlaw issues are reason enough to want to move. Make it far enough that the in-laws can't just hop in the car and be on your doorstep for an impromptu! They need a lesson in diplomacy with married children. Perhaps you and hubby could embarrass the day lights out of them some time???There are other factors pointing towards relocation, as well--this is an absolutely gorgeous area, but we miss 4 seasons (not that Sacramento generally has a real winter, but 3 seasons is more than 2). This is a small town. Mr. P, who is in the ministry, and is director of Reach Out Ministries, once helped another ministry for a few years, and helped them get their non-profit status. He hasn't worked with them for almost 7 years now, which is about twice as long as he worked with them. He still gets asked how things are at that other ministry. True, it's not a major thing, but even I find it irritating. Mr. P's parents live here. They stop by all. The. Time. And they expect us to drop whatever we are doing when they do. And they inspect things. And must know everything we are doing. Sometimes it feels like we are their teenage children, too inexperienced to know anything. I'm 41, Mr P will be 38 in less than a week and a half. Our 18th anniversary was last July. My parents are dead, so Mr. P has no inlaw issuesSometimes Mr. P has travel opportunities with the ministry--Sacramento is a lot easier to get to and from (especially from). If we move, when we can get our own place again (or if we manage to find a house to rent that the landlord would allow chickens), a lot of the folks on the Northern California thread have breeds I want (quite a few of them I learned about on that thread) and are reasonable distances from Sacto, as opposed to everyone being 4+ hours away, one way.
Now, I wonder how many people posted since I started this, since the dinner timer went off halfway through the above?
That's one of my biggest driving factors for breeding my own birds also.
Yes. And grey fox can even climb trees. They're very agile.
I'd go with the first one 4" to the ground, and put 2 more above that one. My dad has even suggested running them horizontally, one close to the fence, and the second one about a foot out at the same height.
Pictures please, when you get him.
Possibly.
chicks are so hard to get a good picture of. Does the chick on the right look like it has a crooked toe? The inner toe of the left foot?
chicks are so hard to get a good picture of. Does the chick on the right look like it has a crooked toe? The inner toe of the left foot?
