Foxes

I'm not into fox hunting for the sake of it but I'm really p*ssed off at the moment, My OH has just called to say we have lost 20 of our chickens to foxes overnight.. I've a mind to set our Molly among them.. sooo angry and upset. They were just coming up to point of lay and some table birds too.. We might have saved more if the big red rooster had been in with them, but they are still on the small side and on different food to him to.. we have 7 left including the rooster......GGGGGRRRRR I'm thinking I should get myself a nice fox fur coat for the winter.. > > >

I'd say that would be very frustrating. They can def be a pest.

Thats crap

I can understand you thinking a fur coat is the way to go

Here are some of them as they were hatching only 15 weeks ago..[img][/img][img][/img] all for nothing...

That is so sad.

But they are fantastic looking.

I take it you have a bit of land etc do you?

Sounds awful. Do you have a secured area for your chickens to roost?

We have two allotment Matt one for growing the other for Hen's.. We have got 2 sheds with lots of room and lots of room to scratch around in.. They didn't get into the shed as it's got a tunnel for the chickens to go through and the fox won't go in if he can't see what he's going into.. They were taken while they were just going out early this morning..

Aww what a shame

Aww poor chicks Damn you foxes!!

Aww poor chooks. I read you have table birds, I think that is good in the way they have had a nice, pampered life first

So very sorry to hear of your chickens, any chance of starting again

Ah no, so many

So sorry to hear this pag, the fox population is really getting out of control now. My next door neighbour had 5 lovely pheasants and a fox killed every single one, and several people in the neighbourhood have lost cats to foxes.

I let my chickens out myself, usually later on in the day. I've never lost any to foxes. They are secured at night and in and locked away until morning. RIP wee chickens, bad fox had a good sunday dinner at your expense!!

Well Molly has a good stash of meat from some of the left behind birds.. We will just have to make do with the ones we have left over .. They were just coming up to pol so with any luck we may be able to hatch a few more..

How frustrating to get that far and have that happen.
Now that the fox knows they are there your gonna have to be super carfull, they are sneaky critters.

They are sneaky little buggers. Gorgeous to look at but an absolute pain in the backside. So sorry to hear of your loss