John Gryphon
Well-Known Member
Australia has the Euro red fox as a major threat to native fauna and farm animals and are the lowest on the ladder,even the Greens dont mind them being killed here and when skin prices were good every man and his dog went after them.
With 20,000 (yep thousand ) skins going through 'Australian Estates' auction house fortnightly at the height of the skin prices it became evident that geographical location resulted in the common old red fox colour being changed.IE Western New South Wales foxesoften ran to a lighter sandy coloured fur, yet in the green valley`s in Victoria they were the trad deep red with a 3 inch magnum white tip on their brush though in saying that 20 kilometres away the foxes were a different shade again.
In our local farms we had the Mt William type, a deep red and Springfield foxes lighter in body weight and the sandy lighter red and they brought less dough too.
Q`s Do the UK foxes run to different colours in different areas?
With 20,000 (yep thousand ) skins going through 'Australian Estates' auction house fortnightly at the height of the skin prices it became evident that geographical location resulted in the common old red fox colour being changed.IE Western New South Wales foxesoften ran to a lighter sandy coloured fur, yet in the green valley`s in Victoria they were the trad deep red with a 3 inch magnum white tip on their brush though in saying that 20 kilometres away the foxes were a different shade again.
In our local farms we had the Mt William type, a deep red and Springfield foxes lighter in body weight and the sandy lighter red and they brought less dough too.
Q`s Do the UK foxes run to different colours in different areas?