Treatment of Fox wound on roo

[Grindlefamily]

How's he doing?? Hoping for the best.

Louella

 

[redkan]

To those who helped with advice, good thoughts and meds, thank you. Basil is definately going to make it, his wounds are healing nicely and his crow is back to normal. You all were great!!

On the downside, the fox is still around although we haven't seen it yet to trap or shoot so all the chickens are on lockdown. Very unhappy crew I have here.

 

[bangor777]

Redkan,
keep us posted on your fox! I'm in Hermon, we've had quite a summer with one. He killed two adult hens and 7 babies over the course of two weeks. I didn't know what we were dealing with until the 7 babies were taken in broad daylight. We locked the chickens up in the coop for 2 solid weeks (they were unhappy) constructed a run with top and buried sides that they used for another week and for the last two weeks we've let them out to free range again under supervision. We have a have a hart set up, the only thing I've caught is curious pullets.
haven't seen the fox in weeks, I don't know if it died, moved on, or just lays in wait.

Dang thing. We baited with a couple of the dead babies at first (he left a bunch), now we have other meat out there that we swap out every few days. Disgusting, and I can't believe we haven't even caught a racoon. keep us posted. Glad your boy is doing better!

 

[spook]

Sorry to hear of all of your fox issues, So glad to hear of your roo getting better! woohooo! That is what we all love to hear.

As for Fox, Can you afford (not a clue) some of that fence that is electric like sheep fence? To help keep Fox by day, racoon by night out of your hen house?
Or place barbed wire close together at the ground level and up for a deterant?
No easy solution is it. Take care and good luck.

 

[redkan]

Well in our case our chickens were all free ranging. There's plenty of game for the fox and generally I think they stay away from us ... until there's a litter of kits ... then they come to our house for hunting lessons. It seems to happen every year here at about this time of summer. Last year we lost a group of not so smart guineas who didn't know to roost in the trees and refused to come in with the others. This year we've lost 2 hens and a guinea, all in a large puff of feathers which says "kits learning".

I guess we need to just build a good solid outdoor coop for summer and leave the free-ranging for spring and fall.