9/27/2023 0 Comments Foxes attacking chickens![]() Its taken a while to get used to the random flashing outside! They have a light sensor and come on automatically as soon as its dark enough. I made a video of our place at night so you can see the random flashing. Pete made a stand from a piece of C-Section and a cut-off star picket. They are well-constructed, water-proof, robust and seem to confuse the fox as long as we move them around. ![]() This is a battery operated LED light that flashes white and blue at random. First we got foxlights on the recommendation of a friend who swears by them for protecting his sheep. We took three approaches to deterring the fox, and so far the combination is working. ![]() It will jump and dig and squeeze into small spaces and it will KILL ALL YOUR CHICKENS. Everyone say oooooh, and then remember that this cute clever agile little animal will KILL ALL YOUR CHICKENS. Let's get the cute fox image out of the way now. Option 1 is more difficult than it sounds. We had two options: 1) kill the fox 2) stop the fox taking chickens. So after that we were on a mission to outfox the fox. What do they say about complacency? We lost another two chickens. The next night Pete put planks of wood around the tractors to prevent more digging and everything was fine until a few days later when we moved the chicken tractors and didn't move the planks. It keeps Taz IN but clearly does not keep foxes out. We were really shocked because this tractor was INSIDE our dog fenced house yard. The fox had dug a hole about 10cm deep, it would have struggled to get the fat old hen out of the hole. If Taz hadn't alerted Pete we would probably have lost the whole lot of them. ![]() It had taken one chicken and killed another. Anyway, we knew the fox was around and had thought that the chickens were safe in their chicken tractors, as we had become very disciplined about remembering to shut them at night, until one night Taz got Pete up and he found that a fox had actually dug under the chicken tractor. ![]()
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