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Originally Posted by Dan Salter  I should think the farmer is shooting them...we feed the local foxes here but they also shoot round here for rabbit and foxes so we try not to get too attached to them...this is the countryside though and this is country life.
We have just spent over 1000 pound getting a large fox proof enclosure built as we are getting chickens....but....foxes will find a way in im sure (but i hope not as we have taken every single measure)...but although my mum will be mad its not the foxes fault! if the icecream man left his van open overnight i would be in there after the cider apple lollies like a rat up a drainpipe...
talking of Rats too...although technically brown rats are non native so i shouldnt like them ...and granted rats can carry weils disease etc i think your exaggerating a little with deadly bites etc...it all feels a bit medieval or plague like, and i dont think the pied piper is in the yellow pages anymore!  |
hi Dan. its good your doing what you can to prevent the foxes getting in without harming them, i would do that too if i were to keep chickens. just like to point out that i didnt say anything about deadly bites. i did say it was lucky it didnt run up hubby's arm. contact with a rat can be dangerous, as i mentioned earlier one local lady found out, she died .
i have heard that if you come in contact with rat fur or droppings you can catch the deadly weils disease.