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Post by lynx on May 12, 2009 13:42:26 GMT
I'm sorry you lost your hens Dennis. I love chicken and if I can twist Martin's arm just a little bit harder it won't be long before we have out own. We have plenty of foxes around here, great big healthy ones. They they have worn a track at the top of our garden and I have often had the privilege of seeing them trot along it, also they make the lane stink when I take the dogs out early in the morning where they have been 'marking' their territory. There is no hunting in this area being most Nation Trust so foxes thrive. There is one farmer who is trigger happy but on the whole they are left to live a normal life. No amount of trapping, shooting or hunting would stop the fox catching the proposed chickens or in fact my precious aviary birds. Foxes kill birds, it is unreasonable to think otherwise nor is there a single thing I could do to alter the fact. The aviary panels are concreted to the concrete floor and thank goodness is fox proof. When/if we get some chickens Martin will build a fox-proof pen and house for them. It would be the only way to keep the birds safe.
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Post by poodlemadness on May 17, 2009 19:39:53 GMT
well we know they kill at wll and hardly take anything away but this is the foxes nature they are not used to food being in cages they are used to food being readily available for them to eat and will get at it if they can because they are hunters if we were left to fend for ourselves and our young we would do exactly the same i worked on a farm for mny years and electric fencing did the trick why not try that
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