mereside
Well-Known Member
hi all i have had trouble with a fox for a few weeks now on my permission the farmer has a free range chicken shed that holds around 1500 chickens which go outside and roam free it has high fences and the farmer thaught that they would be safe how wrong he was . a dog fox has been climbing the fences to get to the chickens and we found 35 the other week dead i have been out every night for a couple of weeks but no luck it doesnt help as the farmer keeps altering the routine of the hatches and often goes round with a torch which i managed to agree to not do and to only do what he needed with the chickens and come away without any disturbance .it was my thaughts that he has been coming during the day as i havnt seen any signs on a night . well sat morning i was up well before dark and went down to have a look round but needed to be at work sat morning so left at 8 am no fox but manged to see the deer numbers are good and can take some as soon as i get this fox .i finished work at 2pm and went back now decided to use the chicken shed roof as my seat as i can see right round the 200 acres i watched roe all around and in total saw 17 all in really good condition and a really nice buck in velvet time was getting near to 4pm by now and as i was glassing the wood saw out of the corner of my eye a ginger flash i quicky turned to get a proper look and there he was and about half the field away was the vixen now this bugger was running across the middle of the field keeping the wind in his favour .but wasnt coming any closer running parallel with the shed and i was at the wrong end of the shed so i steadied myself called out while he was in my sights for him to stop but kept on going so i let the 130 grain fly and down he went i looked back for the vixen but she was off in the other direction so result . i went out to retrieve him and he was in fab condition and very big . i rang the farmer to come down who was chuffed to bits ,atb wayne