Fox control, is it effective?

[User00025]

Although I am involved with just wild birds I do not go out of my way to kill foxes. I maybe lamp a few times a year after Harvest and check all earths in April. You get the occasional litter move in as I did a week or two ago, but there I got the cubs first then the adults. Saw my first wild brood of Pheasants today, couldn't count the little sods but they would be nearly a fortnight old. Have lost two English nests to Corvids in the past week, thank you CP.
The only thing about fox control seems to be the more you kill the more you see.
As sure as eggs is eggs you kill one and at least two come to the funeral.

 

[jp vanden weghe]

I know that even if you exterminate your foxes, you will never get rid of them anymore.
Importing and releasing foxes in the countryside was not a wise thing to do.
But our Green minister at that time wanted to replace the hunters by foxes.

 

[Sonicdmb73]

Although I am involved with just wild birds I do not go out of my way to kill foxes. I maybe lamp a few times a year after Harvest and check all earths in April. You get the occasional litter move in as I did a week or two ago, but there I got the cubs first then the adults. Saw my first wild brood of Pheasants today, couldn't count the little sods but they would be nearly a fortnight old. Have lost two English nests to Corvids in the past week, thank you CP.
The only thing about fox control seems to be the more you kill the more you see.
As sure as eggs is eggs you kill one and at least two come to the funeral.

Not my experience with fox control. When I first started there were five or six litters in a relatively small area. Between three towns and the roads between them.
I cleared out most of those foxes. I still see scat and the occasional fox is shot. But the Lapwings in particular do far better than when I started. The blooming crows or mowers seem to get the Curlews though

 

[Overlay]

lot to say about control
i’ve three farms i look after who are predominately sheep

month before lambing i do two visits to each ( all nighters) and reduce any foxes. during lambing i get perhaps 1 of the three that get a predation problem ( not clearing up) on the new born lambs - sort any problems and that’s it once the lambs are up and running at a good weight. - nothing else required.
I always clear the cubs first and leave the adults to last - it works for me