Golden Brahma 64
Songster
What You Need to Know About Foxes:
Foxes are extremely smart. They will watch you and your habits and learn when it is the safest to make an attack on your poultry
Because they are so intelligent, you are more likely to catch a raccoon or your barn cat in a live trap.
While foxes do hunt at night most of the time, they will hunt during the day time. This is especially true during winter and when a mother has kits to feed.
The best way to keep your birds safe while you try to get rid of foxes is to keep them in a secure coop and run.
Then one day we got a tip from an old timer- someone who’s been a farmer and livestock owner for a long time. And here it is:
The #1 Way to Get Rid of Foxes for Good:
Urine.
And I don’t mean marking your territory around the chicken coop or run. That won’t deter these foxes- though it’s probably a good idea to still do that.
What you have do do is search out the actual den and urinate directly into it.
This can be quite fun for any young boys you might have at your place. Send them on a fox hunt and let them mark any areas that look like they might be fox dens.
The foxes on our property like to move into old groundhog holes, so we mark all those as well.
Foxes are extremely smart. They will watch you and your habits and learn when it is the safest to make an attack on your poultry
Because they are so intelligent, you are more likely to catch a raccoon or your barn cat in a live trap.
While foxes do hunt at night most of the time, they will hunt during the day time. This is especially true during winter and when a mother has kits to feed.
The best way to keep your birds safe while you try to get rid of foxes is to keep them in a secure coop and run.
Then one day we got a tip from an old timer- someone who’s been a farmer and livestock owner for a long time. And here it is:
The #1 Way to Get Rid of Foxes for Good:
Urine.
And I don’t mean marking your territory around the chicken coop or run. That won’t deter these foxes- though it’s probably a good idea to still do that.
What you have do do is search out the actual den and urinate directly into it.
This can be quite fun for any young boys you might have at your place. Send them on a fox hunt and let them mark any areas that look like they might be fox dens.
The foxes on our property like to move into old groundhog holes, so we mark all those as well.