Re: Foxes

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Even so, a few weeks ago a fox managed to kill and eat a banty in a
small pen by ripping the wire and somehow killing her and eating her
through the
slats between a pallet which I had used to make the roofed run and
stapled
on half inch chicken wire. What are the spaces between pallet
slats? 3 inches? It seemed impossible.
3 inches is plenty large enough. It would allow a fox to get nearly
it's whole head through.
My property is not suitable for an electric fence as it's very long
and narrow and there are loads of trees and shrubs on the boundary.
I suppose you could put a line of electric tape along the top of your
boundary fence to deter the fox.

I do
actually have an electric fence unit which I used to use for my
goats on
my
other paddock down the village.

You know my views on foxes. I will leave them alone if they leave
me
alone.
Once a fox starts to break into my poultry runs and houses when the
fields
behind my house are alive with rabbits, it needs a bit of lead in
its ear
to
cure it.
I think on this matter we are like minded.


I agree about the lead in the head, & all of my animals (horses, a
chicken, dogs, cats, mouse, etc.) are rescues; I do all I can to save
all I can. I don't kill spiders & put insects outside. I'm still so
mad about the raccoon that got Bo my chicken (she's getting better by
the way, I posted a broken egg thing but that wasn't it at all, it was
an infection from the raccoon that nearly ripped her wing off & I'm
still treating her with antibiotics but she was very severely
infected; maggots, etc. EWWW - the smell was horrible). But still -
about the lead thing. I certainly don't want attacked when I go back
to the horse barn at night so I'm still trying to catch the coon but
my live trap isn't cooperating because my pony stepped on it. We've
had a lot of rabies cases in the area. I'm in Ohio & we saw a fox a
few weeks ago, & we are adjacent to the Akron city limits, so they're
everywhere. Could yours perhaps be a mink? Have you seen it? They're
notoriously vicious.

Candi




Did you know that in Ohio if you catch that coon, it's illegal to remove
it from the premises? Yoou must dispatch it, or release it elsewhere on
your property.
State Law (call your game warden to verify)

also from Ohio
.

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