General Chat

FOR A FEW MONTHS NOW
IVE BEEN FEEDING A YOUNG FOX (WHILEY)
EVERY NIGHT A ODD CHICKEN
A FEW KITCHEN SCRAPS AND DOG FOOD
MY HUBBY SAID
I SHOULD NOT DO IT
AS HE IS A WILD CREATURE
WHAT DO YOU THINK

IS HE MEAN OR RIGHT

he meannnnnnnnnn
altho if it get me cat or rabbits your in for it lmao

He is probably right :((

BUT HE IS SO CUTE AND SOME TIMES

BRINGS A BIGGER FOX WITH HIM

Hes right,, Joy,,,,,,you shouldnt leave food out, near your home ,as it will encrouage other virmin ,including rats,!!

especially now its getting colder as rats will stay close where they can easy get food,,

plus the fox can hunt quite happy for its own food,,,and if it cant get from you will go,,but could end up scavenging round other houses,,,,,,,,~~~

They are wild creatures, like rabbits.

There are far more foxes in towns than the countryside (where I live) but my chicken girlies will die if I leave them out a moment after dusk.

Do you kind 'townies' have anything in your gardens that the foxes will kill? Kittens? Birds? They kill one hen here for breakfast, take away one for their babies (awww sweet...) and kill another 20 or 30 hens at the same time that they don't want. For fun.

I have picked up 26 dead free range hens in the past.

A killing frenzy.

I love animals and have approaching a hundred in my garden - but a fox I wouldn't feed. Nasty.

And this year, for some reason, there are fox cubs dead on all the roads around here. Weird. Why? Because you so-called kind townies have banned hunting and I am putting my organic, free-range chooks to bed promptly each night so foxes cannot massacre them: fox cubs have nothing to eat and are starving. The culling that has happened for centuries is no longer allowed. You are starving these animals to death, or else they are being run over searching for food. They are not having my hens any more.

BUT HE IS CUTE

They also get to depend on being fed,get used to seeing/trusting people. Not everyone wants fox's around.

Before you know where you are you will have the pack there

Have a read.....you decide lol

http://www.foxolutions.co.uk/foxproblems.htm

My children had two lovely bunnies in a huge enclosure outside, with their hutch safe in the middle. We know foxes dig under for live food so we wire-fenced right under the ground and right under the pen 15 inches down.

One day we had a pet bunny with a leg missing and a broken second leg where Whiley had dug 2 ft down and pulled a leg throught the wire under the ground - a trip to the vet and a merciful putting to sleep of my child's pet.

Don't tell me about foxes - they are vermin and vicious. They are wild animals and should be treated as such.

OK YOU WIN

HE CAN HAVE THE TWO COOKED CHICKENS

I BOUGHT HIM THEN I WILL TRY TO STOP LOL

Not all townies are so much against the culling of foxes,,just the method of hounding and running a poor creature to death,,by hunting it with a pack of half starved hounds at its heels,,yes hounds are not fed up to 2 days before a hunt,,if they humanley shot to keep numbers down I wouldnt have a problem so much with it,its the other option I have problems with,,same as seal cubs,the way their numbers are kept down,,,,,

That right Joan,

My farmimg friends in west country would not let hunt on her land,!!

i wont eat in a pub

that supported fox hunting

Seriously Joy they are not to be encouraged. We are over-run with urban foxes where I live in the Midlands and the foxes in her garden in London NW1 are keeping my daughter awake night after night.

S

I am with you Joy.

We feed foxes in our garden - keep it up I say - you are harming nobody. We bought dog biscuits by the way - a bit cheaper than chickens! They like sausages as well - fried - grilled - oven cooked they dont mind lol. We hand fed two of them - they love eggs and its amazing how gently they take an egg from your hand - without breaking it!

We have had a family of foxes with their little bundles of joy and its wonderful to watch. We also have badgers coming into our garden as well now and again.

Rats are about whether you feed it or not - with all the rubbish the humans leave around the pavements and roads these days.


Tina xxx

a friend of mine used to feed a fox that came to her garden everyday. When she had cubs, she took them to see her too, they would literally go upto her etc. Things is once you start feeding them, they become reliable on the food, esp now winter is on its way....Perhaps you can make a hole in the garden away from the house and bury the odd chicken in there...x

now i am wavering on buying more cooked chickens

The best feed for foxes -

A 1080 bait

Or a lead sandwich!

xxxx mick

(who owns duck and chooks!)

I love foxes.......in theory........but I hate what they do to chickens and rabbits.......not their fault I know.... but I have to admit if I found my neighbour was encouraging them in..........I'd not be best pleased and nor would my feather and fur babies outside lol xx