Nusiance Fox

[USMC8672]

Okay guys, I need some ideas. I have a fox that is killing the wife's chickens. I have set out live traps with bait to no avail.

 

I hesitate to set steel traps out as we have goats calves and donkeys. Anyone have any ideas that I haven't tried yet? I don't want to use poison out in fear of killing neighbors cats.

 

Jim

[Hozzie]

Can you fortify the chicken coop better?   Do you know how it is getting in?  Or are these free range chickens?

[CommsNBombs]

Foxes are gonna get in no matter what you gotta kill em.

My grandfathers farm out in Washington County VA had a reinforced chicken coop with aluminum reinforcements and traps around it...

the damn foxes dug sapper tunnels underneath it.

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[bersaguy]

Back, years ago when I was finishing growing up on the Ranch/Farm we had a problem with foxes in the hen house and like CNB mentioned we had foxes coming through tunnels that got them inside the chain link chicken yard and hen house. We finally went into hen house and located the tunnel exits which was three of them. We put steel traps in them and caught two red foxes and then filled to tunnel exits with quik-crete and problem was solved. You may have the save issue................jmho

[SupaRice]

"Can't out-fox a fox"

Very hard to trap.... not impossible though. Edited August 2, 2015 by SupaRice

[USMC8672]

Sorry was off line for the afternoon.   These are chickens that are allowed to free range during the day from about 0700 until about 7 PM.

[Trekbike]

Okay guys, I need some ideas. I have a fox that is killing the wife's chickens. I have set out live traps with bait to no avail.

 

I hesitate to set steel traps out as we have goats calves and donkeys. Anyone have any ideas that I haven't tried yet? I don't want to use poison out in fear of killing neighbors cats.

 

Jim

 

 

How about this?

 

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30MO3tS4wXY[/media]

[nightrunner]

How about shoot, shovel, and shut up?

[Chris]

Is it coming in at the same place? If he's got a hole dug under the fence, I'd rig it with a conibear body trap... assuming it's in season, legal, etc. etc.

 

http://www.fntpost.com/Categories/Trapping/Traps/Body+Grip+Traps+(Including+Conibear)/Oneida+Victor+Conibear+Traps/

[homeagain]

Typically day-ranging chickens are pretty safe except for the occasional hawk as long as they are paddocked. I keep mine in a moveable paddock by day in 6' fencing, but at night (typical fox, coon, possum, yote, etc. hunting hours) they are cooped in cluckingham palace....caulked, reinforced plywood structure with carabiner latches, double layered hardware cloth vents/sides overlaid with 1x2 trim, and a double layer of hardware cloth bottom buried 6" underground. Maybe more like chickenriverbend?

[ShaunM]

https://youtu.be/l47glp7Lms8

[bersaguy]

My Great uncle use to have free roaming chickens that would go in the chicken house all hours of day and night  to lay eggs but for the most part they roosted in trees above where a fox could reach them in his chicken yard. If he lost a chicken it was from a tree climbing critter. His chicken house had concrete floor that eliminated anything digging it's way in. Someone mentioned trapping a fox during season. You can kill a nuisance varmint that is killing your farm animals or raiding your garden anytime. As far as I know you can even kill a deer if it is destroying your garden but I think you are required to contact TWRA  to pick up the deer in a timely manner so they can salvage the meat for homeless shelters.......jmho