Then of course, a properly maintained fence could work equally well,
without the need for any guns, no?

no... it is not possible to fence over creeks and streams, for one thing...

How many chicken do you have? Do you really need to fence in creeks and streams?



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On 2019 May 23 12:10:54, you wrote to me:

Then of course, a properly maintained fence could work equally well,
without the need for any guns, no?

no... it is not possible to fence over creeks and streams, for one
thing...

How many chicken do you have?

two and a rooster now... there were 25 or so hens at one point but age took them... we generally stocked up with new bitties every X years when the hen count was getting low... that restocking is not so easily done any more now that dad is gone...

Do you really need to fence in creeks and streams?

if this property is going to be fenced in as you suggested, yes... there are two creeks that run through here... both entry and exit points would need to be fenced... in at least one place, the area is 3+ feet deep; 5 or 6 if you're going to road level... in addition to this fencing, what about cleaning out all the leaves and branches that draft up against them? are you willing to do that job? we're not... while we do have some fencing in place, it is mainly barbed wire for denoting the property lines... mesh fencing (as opposed to wire fencing) won't keep out the deer, dogs, wolves, foxes or coyotes in the area... we won't even mention the big cats (bobcat & couger) out here...

our chickens free-range all over ~50% of this (~20 acre) property scratching for edibles in the woods... this is not cleared field or pasture land... it is woods; woods we've fought to keep and clear-cut or stripped like others have done... the chickens have a coop they go in at night and sadly, they apparently ran to the coop when this attack took place... that's where many of them were caught because that's where most of the discovered feathers were found...

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Hello Bj”rn,

if this property is going to be fenced in as you suggested, yes...

But I didn't. You were talking about your chicken, remember.

Russians are working on a solution by domesticating silver foxes.
Presumably, after a few hundred generations, silver foxes will no
longer have a taste for fresh chicken and fences will no longer
be necessary to keep the chickens couped up.

This was published in the April 2019 edition of Popular Mechanics
magazine. So please. Do not claim I am making this stuff up.

--Lee

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On 24/05/2019 00:21, 1:3634/12.73 wrote:

the chickens have a coop they go in at
night and sadly, they apparently ran to the coop when this attack took place... that's where many of them were caught because that's where most of the discovered feathers were found...

I've sized the chook access to the coop to be just big enough for the rooster (the hens are smaller than the rooster) to pass through, hopefully too small for the wild dogs.

Foxes on the other hand are not so large so I may still have an issue there.

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On 24/05/2019 05:35, 2:203/2 wrote:

But I didn't. You were talking about your chicken, remember.

Russians are working on a solution by domesticating silver foxes. Presumably, after a few hundred generations, silver foxes will no
longer have a taste for fresh chicken and fences will no longer
be necessary to keep the chickens couped up.

What about the feral/non-domesticated silver foxes?

This was published in the April 2019 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine.

It must be true then....

So please. Do not claim I am making this stuff up.

I saw silver foxes in Patagonia when I visited there. There were rather large animals compared with the red foxes we have in Australia. The Aussie fox is still large enough to take a chook.

My niece (and her husband) have lost many fowl to foxes - she is about 400km from here so I'm not sure that I have such a fox population. I thought I heard one crying from across the valley one evening but maybe not...

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Hello David,

But I didn't. You were talking about your chicken, remember.

Russians are working on a solution by domesticating silver foxes.
Presumably, after a few hundred generations, silver foxes will no
longer have a taste for fresh chicken and fences will no longer
be necessary to keep the chickens couped up.

What about the feral/non-domesticated silver foxes?

Once domesticated, always domesticated.

This was published in the April 2019 edition of Popular Mechanics
magazine.

It must be true then....

Of course it is.

So please. Do not claim I am making this stuff up.

I saw silver foxes in Patagonia when I visited there. There were rather large animals compared with the red foxes we have in Australia. The Aussie fox is still large enough to take a chook.

The process as to how to domesticate one color of foxes should
also work for other colors of foxes. But I am not Russian, so am
not able to tell you with absolute certainty. Perhaps our Russian
friends in this echo might have some experience in this matter ...

My niece (and her husband) have lost many fowl to foxes -

What color foxes were they? This is important, as only silver
foxes are known to have been domesticated ...

she is about 400km from here so I'm not sure that I have such a fox population.

Most people think Australia has only crocodiles and kangaroos.
Along with dingos. But apparently foxes live everywhere ...

I thought I heard one crying from across the valley one evening but maybe not...

Better make sure to lock your doors at night. Otherwise you
might get invaded by whatever color of foxes inhabitats Oz.

--Lee

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