[Hillview Farm]

Bloody Glad someone is doing a good job! They are pointless killers half the time and kill for fun.... Just like a hunt really! We had been really lucky with the chickens and ducks untill they started taking in the daylight.

I had a terrier put down the whole and she killed the cubs and I'll welcome the hunt onto the land with open arms everytime!

[Brijjy]

So how do people feel on skinning the fox once it's been dispatched? I skinned my first one last night. My oldest son, age 13, went out the previous night fox shooting with his grampy. There had been a fox taking new lambs so the chaps went out. They shot a big dog fox and gave it to me. A friend of mine tans the pelt but it needed skinning quickly as I'm not seeing my friend til monday. Apart from being pretty stinky, I found the process quite satisfying. The skin is now rolled up and in the freezer! Don't tell my OH or he'll have kittens!

[Clarebelle]

I think thats great, the fox was getting shot anyway so you might as well make use of the pelt rather than it just being disposed of. I would definately have done the same.

[littlelugs]

This is why foxes need to be shot. This is the carnage we got upto this morning 7 hens and 1 cockerel killed.... Not taken for food just slaughtered and left decapitated.
Luckily we don't have kids that may have gone out to find this..
7 hens at £15 each one cockerel £7  thats £112 down and thats before loss of revenue from egg production, repairs and feed already supplied probably nearer £200 lost. So please dont tell me that foxes shouldnt be shot.

[colliewoman]

 

[Big Light]

Did it eat through the side of the shed?

[plumseverywhere]

Lugs, that's awful. Really sorry to hear/see that.
That is the sight that my 8 year old found. Although its not nice shooting the foxes, we actually did feel better for doing so and reducing the chance of more needless slaughters.    things.

[in the hills]

So sorry, Littlelugs . 


Did the fox make that hole in the coop    ..... thought it was badgers that got in that way 
Not often we see foxes around here but I could smell them in several spots when walking the dogs today ....... stand no chance if they can eat through the sheds 

[Brijjy]

So sorry Littlelugs. I'm looking at that damage to the house and I'm also thinking badgers rather than foxes. That's significant damage, maybe more than a fox would do. 

[Mammyshaz]

Not nice  .   

[sokel]

so sorry about the loss but I have to agree the only time we had that sort of damage done to a she was when I Badger got into my call ducks

[littlelugs]

Sorry for the delay, it was a fox it was seen running through the field next to ours with the cockerel in its mouth It was a big dog fox by all accounts. 

[plumseverywhere]

Proof that foxes don't just take chickens when we take inadequate precautions to protect them too. A good one to show the cuddly-fox brigade!!   If a fox is eating his way into a locked coop, how much more prevision can we take to protect them 

[littlelugs]

I agree, i have now surrounded all the coops with corrugated metal hopefully that will be the end to it.. My chickens free range most of the time and are locked up at night, the run was only installed so that i could let them out when i went to work before the mornings get lighter. The chickens are locked in at night. I can understand when they are free ranging that the odd one might disappear now and again but the carnage of yesterday shocked the hell out of us!
I wouldn't kill any animal for fun, but that fox's days are numbered. 

[sabrina]

So sorry you have had this, not nice. people who think foxes are cute and cuddly have no idea.