Urgent!!! FOX TOOK A CHICKEN!

[Callender Girl]

I don't know how effective it is, but once I spot a potential predator or hearing coyotes singing in the fields around me, I take my Great Pyrenees out and let her walk the perimeter, ideally leaving big dog scent -- and sometimes pee -- everywhere. The more ways to maybe deter critters, the better.

 

[cmom]

I got several pictures of the fox last night. Here is one of them

 

[cmom]

If it's a fox, take the advice from the people above. Foxes have been known to go into a frenzy and kill everything in there and leave it. Me and my mom tried our dogs pee around the pen to keep away minks and other animals alike, it seems to work well, too.

I know it was a fox. I have the fox on video that night. I have dealt with a fox years ago that dug under a gate and killed several birds so that time I put concrete under all of the gates.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

I am so so sorry for the loss of your sweet girl! Bear hugs!!!
Good luck with protecting the rest of your flock!

 

[cmom]

I don't know how effective it is, but once I spot a potential predator or hearing coyotes singing in the fields around me, I take my Great Pyrenees out and let her walk the perimeter, ideally leaving big dog scent -- and sometimes pee -- everywhere. The more ways to maybe deter critters, the better.

There are a couple of Great Pyrenees that roam our property. I don't know who they belong to and have asked some neighbors if they know who the owner is but they don't.

 

[cmom]

If it's a fox, take the advice from the people above. Foxes have been known to go into a frenzy and kill everything in there and leave it. Me and my mom tried our dogs pee around the pen to keep away minks and other animals alike, it seems to work well, too.

 

[cmom]

I love my game cameras, no surprises. I always know what predators are prowling about. Here most of the predators roam during the night. The summers here are hot, they rest in their dens or wherever during the day and hunt at night. I rarely see a predator during the day except for hawks.

 

[cmom]

Ask around where the den is and destroy it..Took me 3 years to find out the den was next door to me...
Keep Birds in because Fox are bold and will take a Chicken while your standing there watching.

I live in a very rural area on a dead end road. There are acres and acres. My closest neighbor isn't close and there are several acres between us. To find a den would be difficult. A neighbor who lives some roads away has some dens by his house but you need a 4-wheel drive to get back there. It's not close. I don't get around like I used to I'm in my 70's.

 

[Timothy Menezes]

I would shoot it, now that it knows the location of your chickens he will be back and murder your girls.

It was a very good feeling to shoot the coyote that was destroying my flock. That bastard was coming in broad daylight all hours of the day.

 

[cmom]

I will shoot it when I catch it. I don't see it during the day. But have a live trap out and putting leg traps out.
A Bobcat and the last Fox that killed some of my birds.