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Post by pianochook on Jan 13, 2010 9:51:58 GMT 8
I'm so sorry to hear this, Anne when it rains it pours, doesn't it... and thanks everybody for the advice!
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Post by annieyokie on Jan 13, 2010 10:42:56 GMT 8
Ah!! socks too .Ill get some from my son ,they are the worst .
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Post by pianochook on Jan 13, 2010 10:48:19 GMT 8
maybe, if you put up enough of them, the stinky socks will deter weird customers, too
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Post by Cluck N Waddle on Jan 13, 2010 12:45:05 GMT 8
Lol pianochook But seriously, so sorry to read about last nights fox attack annieyokie
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Post by quambie on Jan 13, 2010 14:51:17 GMT 8
hi annieyokie
Sorry to hear that but they do get in where you least expect them to one of my mates down the road last year lost 30 hens one night to foxes they did get one but the other two got away could be a Vixen with her cubs on a training exercise I am off for a shoot this week we know we have cubs in a few dens around us so they have to go with mom and dad if we can get them that will stop a few from breeding not a lot of help to you guys in the burbs but if I get them at my end it may stop a few getting to you guys they do travel around when young Trev
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Post by fluffychook on Jan 14, 2010 7:41:09 GMT 8
Phew Brendon......but then again if it works....just don't want to teach my grandson to pea outside, oh dear and the thought of my granddaughter....just won't go there...lol.
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Post by annieyokie on Jan 14, 2010 10:43:22 GMT 8
A lady from Wagin picked up some frizzles last night and she told me to put in solar lights around the pen .She said their fence wiring wasn't to good but has never had trouble with Fox's since she has done that . Well I shot down to Burnings for 30 lights ,Ross put electric fence ribbon at nose height hung a sock or two an both marked the pens . No fox's last night but it was lit up like a carnival
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Post by ikbokchook on Jan 14, 2010 10:58:35 GMT 8
I'm sorry to hear about the poor chookies lost to foxes I do have to say, however, that I am lovin' the fox deterents! Not sure if I should tell OH though (he already thinks the 'world is his toilet' ) and I think the foxes would be able to smell his socks from the house! Sadly, I think the only way to really stop them is to shoot them. Also councils used to have traps you could hire.
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Post by quambie on Jan 14, 2010 12:14:37 GMT 8
I wish a trap were the best way to go I have had my trap set with fresh bait in it for the last six months in that time only got one of them Boy are they smart even more so at breeding time one took my last Turkey this year through the hot wire and missed the traps that had a dead chook in it that had passed away in the heat a few weeks before I have moved them to both sides of the chook runs where the Guinea fowl nest as they took about 60 eggs one night there a hard one but a good shot seems to be the only way Just as bad are the wild cats we seem to have more and more of wandering around the place and breeding should be sterilised trev
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Post by lakelands on Jan 15, 2010 13:00:23 GMT 8
So sorry to hear about your chookies Annie. Bl**dy foxes. Don't forget foxes can also climb wire fences so it pays to put netting over the top of the pens as well.
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Post by luv4ducks on Jan 15, 2010 13:27:17 GMT 8
I've also seen foxes climb a tree nearby to a "fox proof" run, this person unfortunately didn't think that a fox could get past a 10ft cyclone fence, and the fox climbed a nearby tree which had a branch that overhung the pen and got in, the fox was then trapped, it couldn't get out but by the time the owner found it the fox had destroyed a good portion of his flock. Needless to say, the fox copt appropriate punishment, but it doesn't replace lost birds does it
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Post by annieyokie on Jan 15, 2010 13:54:45 GMT 8
That's amazing Im always complaining of lack of trees up a the chook area ,maybe I should be grateful
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Post by pianochook on Jan 15, 2010 17:19:54 GMT 8
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Post by mandimoo on Jan 15, 2010 20:53:39 GMT 8
Thats a nice looking run, I just went outside to feed my dogs and heard a strange noise so i went over to the chickens and there was a bloody fox in there, had just killed my naked neck so now im fuming grr had some killed the other night too, we have a 9 foot fence around and it climbed straight over so now ive put all my chickens in the house, yeah i know i should be doing it every night, and am going to wait a while then go out with some lead to put in it hopefully that is if i can shoot acurately with a torch bloody foxes I HATE THEM. might start making more adjustments to my runs i think....
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Post by mandimoo on Jan 15, 2010 20:54:31 GMT 8
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