A first for The Farm today was spotting a fox sussing out the land. Looks kinda cute at the moment, but I know I won’t be so impressed when we have chickens!
My neighbour’s chicken run is like a Chicken Fort Knox, with a high and low electric fence running all the way round it. He lost some chickens due to foxes, and now he has a shoot-on-sight policy. (The foxes, not the chickens!!)
I did spot another fox recently in the neighbouring field carrying a dead rabbit off, so if we could just train them to eat rabbits (wild ones!) we would be laughing.
In my dreams maybe…
You need a Paterdale Terrier like mine! She chases off foxes, catches and kills rabbits, rats and mice, and as a bonus is a dead hand (or should that be mouth) at catching houseflies – very useful at this time of year.
We have lost several ducks and our three geese to foxes (not the chickens though which is very strange), so they don’t look so cute to me any more!