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Plenty of domestic fowl go feral I used to shoot several flight ponds in Cheshire we had a few notables over the years from pure white Aylesbury types to a 8lb mallard drake 😳

Parent birds dead ? Parasites I'd a nest in one of our sheds last year above where I keep meal for other stock I noticed 1000s of mites on the meal bags They were northern fowl mites I got up a ladder and gave the fledglings a good spray of frontline they were being eaten alive

Indian game would be my.last breed of choice too clumsy and heavy they are ok with their own chick's but partridge chick's are so small ,they are more like bumble bees lol

Avoid silkies like the plague with partridge chick's you'll loose them they get trapped in the leg feathers and hung I use game hens or game crosses clean legged birds

It's amazing what you come across at earth's as a kid I used to collect skulls (I know ) a favorite place of mine was a huuuuuuge badger sett covering a couple of hundred yards of bank , amongst it were several parts used by foxes I used to sit up a tree and watch the comings and goings of both...

Well I grew up in Warwickshire and Cheshire they certainly do there

Wait till they reintroduce lynx and wolves to Wales @BenBhoy we'll have 100 pages then

No.ones winding you up Tim just trying to point out that your not always right !you seem to have a packham complex when others point things out to you You may well be able to change management practices, ewe and ram genetic selection etc But time and time again you revert to 'there must have...

I solved that problem a while ago

Possibly they are clever creatures and learn quickly I've seen foxes quietly working a hedgerow turn and run at the sound of a lip squeek obviously had a bad experiece there lol ,but I'd forget the caller ! set yourself up so you can cover the area where you saw the fox last

Simple , foxes are creatures of habit , if you see one in one spot at a certain time then the next day they will be there again give or take 10 mins or so Just adjust your position accordingly and you'll get your shot I've shot more foxes over the years using that approach than by any other...

Tim ! Revels bolero round 1 ,. I realise that you have been around sheep and lambed ewes in a multitude of locations ,write articles for periodicals and so on and so forth Why is it you almost downright refuse to accept from others that foxes do predate on healthy lambs , in your mind any lamb...

Not lambs but piglets. I spent a few weeks one year with a keeper friend in Hampshire one evening we were watching a fox going round an outdoor pig farrowing setup , this fox knew its game it would hop the 2 strands of electric fence then carefully approach the pig hut and peer in , it was...

Navels was the flies spot of choice