The Poultry Keeper The Independent Forum for Poultry Keepers    FAQ   Search     Register   Log in  Snow, electric netting & fox Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3  Next          The Poultry Keeper Forum Index -> Pests and Predators Author Message Itsybitsy Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1327 Location: Leicestershire Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:09 pm    Post subject: My "man" is licensed to use snares, I would've thought that a bad shot which sets up a gangreous wound worse than being strangled. Foxes will kill anything that moves, they are officially classed as vermin and it is illegal to feed them. And yes they will check your coops night after night till you forget to shut your girls up properly, they will also "mark" their territory round your house so your whole garden smells unpleasantly of fox pee. Itsybitsy Back to top mcleod-girls Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 1345 Location: Banff, Aberdeenshire Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:58 pm    Post subject: ok I will keep giving my boys LOTS to drink! Back to top Sparklepeeps Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1901 Location: Cheshire Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:07 pm    Post subject: Itsybitsy wrote: Foxes ... are officially classed as vermin and it is illegal to feed them Well I didn't know that! Back to top Sparklepeeps Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1901 Location: Cheshire Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:23 pm    Post subject: Henwife... Ive been thinking... is there any risk of transmitted disease from eating a bird that a fox has biten Back to top Itsybitsy Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1327 Location: Leicestershire Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:09 am    Post subject: I know I'm not Henwife but I ate one of mine which had had it's head bitten off and some small bite wounds in the breast, I would've thought the cooking temperature would kill any bacteria, you should know that better than us really being a nurse, and in any case what kind of disease are you thinking of? Anyway I'm still alive to tell the tale (but then I'm a tough old bird) which is more than the fox which killed it is - well he seems to have disappeared anyway so I'm hoping so. Itsybitsy Back to top Sparklepeeps Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1901 Location: Cheshire Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:49 am    Post subject: Itsybitsy wrote: you should know that better than us really being a nurse Nope, not really. I'm not an expert on the life of the fox, nor the diseases they have... hence the question! Back to top Itsybitsy Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1327 Location: Leicestershire Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:15 pm    Post subject: Okay (sigh) there are no diseases of foxes which can be transmitted to humans, they don't get distemper, rabies is species specific and eradicated from this country anyway, they do get and die from sarcoptic mange but again it's not transmitted to humans, and they do get Weil's disease. Personally though I wouldn't kiss one, and if I can get enough livers from road kills I'm going to make fox liver pate. Itsybitsy Back to top Henwife Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3021 Location: Monmouthshire Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:15 pm    Post subject: Well, during rationing we cheerfully ate roadkill for variety, Ive picked lead shot out of game and eaten that, and if a fox hasn't mangled it, I've always cooked and eaten the results of any rampage (and fed it to my children too). Buzzards go for the soft bits, so contaminate the flesh and feathers with the contents of the innards - it depends how squeamish I'm feeling as to whether they end in the pot. Back to top Itsybitsy Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1327 Location: Leicestershire Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:41 pm    Post subject: There aren't many Buzzards in my bit of Leicestershire, but the other week when I was sheep scanning, I stopped and went for a a pee behind a straw stack and had a Red Kite soaring above me. Not many can have experienced that. Itsybitsy Back to top Henwife Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3021 Location: Monmouthshire Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:36 pm    Post subject: The mind boggles...... Back to top Itsybitsy Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1327 Location: Leicestershire Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:43 pm    Post subject: Oh - I get to pee in all sorts of exciting places (she said airily). I did get the offer of the conveniences but declined as the straw stack was quicker. I have a friend who thinks I have a fetish about it - but he's wrong . . . so wrong Itsybitsy Back to top Gilly C Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2381 Location: South Cumbria Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:48 pm    Post subject: Red Kites were released in Yorkshire and often driving between Leeds and Harrogate I have seen up to 4 easy to recognise with forked tail ! Back to top Itsybitsy Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1327 Location: Leicestershire Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:52 pm    Post subject: Yes - these are in the Nene Valley (Northants ish) just slightly north of Oundle, they're lovely to see, also released and doing very well. Itsybitsy Back to top Gilly C Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2381 Location: South Cumbria Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:55 pm    Post subject: Nice to have success stories for a change ! Back to top Sparklepeeps Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1901 Location: Cheshire Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:08 pm    Post subject: I kept seeing a very large bird of prey on the ground in a field I drive past (at about 60mph) on the way to work every day. I was so intrigued that it was always there but only ever got a glimpse, I was begining to wonder what exciting prey must be living in that field. Three weeks later..... ..Ive realised its a blumming plastic 'scarecrow' bird of prey! (the farmer must be moving it arond the field periodically. 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