Legally limit how many fox you can shoot??

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Finlayn said:
Not worrying buddy and certainly not a anti hunter. Do my share of control on my patch. Was just curious if there was any guidelines, after all vermin control is control after all not complete termination. Honestly believe since thermal has been launched, a lot of guys bagging 20-30 foxes on weekly basis every week. Not sporting to me, any monkey can shoot an animal completely oblivious to the hunter.
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Is vermin control meant to be sporting?
 
Hornet 6 said:
Why should foxes not be allowed to kill lambs, within reason ?
They are all gods creatures, lambs are a foxes natural prey, that has always been so, why should the fact someone is
making a living at the lambs expense make them more important than the foxes.
Nobody has the right to exploit animals for profit, and yes I eat lamb, when I can afford it.
If foxes are eating your lambs then put fences up, same chicken farmers have to, same as you fence your gardens to keep
undesirables out.

Neil.
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Parody account?
 
How many lambs you can afford to lose depends on the size of your flock.
If you have a few hundred ewes, then 2-3% loss might be sustainable providing there are no losses to other circumstances. A flock of less than a hundred then the loss of two or three lambs becomes more of a concern.
Therefore the fox control should to be proportionate to the above.
If you’re controlling foxes around a chicken farm or to protect wildlife then the aim would be to keep the fox population as low as possible.
Just my thoughts on this issue.

Ed
 
I/We control fox when asked to do so by landowners & tenants, Total since my first fox at age 14 years , probably a very large number of noughts after the first numeric .... Guess you didn't here the adage, "Shoot a fox, & two will attend the funeral" ... We havn't got thermal scopes, don't know anyone who has, excepting the two on the Duke's estates ... :tiphat:
 
We shot 50+ foxes on a small pheasant shoot one year and we still had bother with foxy. This was in a patch of approx only 200 acres. That was in the day before thermal just using a roof mounted lamp on a 90. Have to admit that I am a dinosaur when it comes to thermal/NV and as I get older it gets harder to squeeze the trigger on any more than one or two max per outing. That goes for deer fox rabbit duck pheasant etc.
 
Finlayn said:
Hey all, quick question. With thermal now attached to nearly every foxing rifle in the uk. In my eyes the sporting element has been reduced, I know guys shooting huge amount of foxes on a weekly basis. Surely there is some law out there to preserve the breed as much as we want to keep it under control..,
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What a load of tosh!! And I thought people on here knew a thing about country matters!! Ha
 
Finlayn said:
Not worrying buddy and certainly not a anti hunter. Do my share of control on my patch. Was just curious if there was any guidelines, after all vermin control is control after all not complete termination. Honestly believe since thermal has been launched, a lot of guys bagging 20-30 foxes on weekly basis every week. Not sporting to me, any monkey can shoot an animal completely oblivious to the hunter.
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Duh! That’s why it’s called ‘vermin control’!!
 
Like they say, you never have to bring one with you because when you get there, there is always one already there.
 
LuckyEddie said:
How many lambs you can afford to lose depends on the size of your flock.
If you have a few hundred ewes, then 2-3% loss might be sustainable providing there are no losses to other circumstances. A flock of less than a hundred then the loss of two or three lambs becomes more of a concern.
Therefore the fox control should to be proportionate to the above.
If you’re controlling foxes around a chicken farm or to protect wildlife then the aim would be to keep the fox population as low as possible.
Just my thoughts on this issue.

Ed
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Yes but the problem is when Reynard gets a taste of your lamb he doesn’t stop at 1 or 2 does he?? But it’s not just the lambs, we as farmers land managers what ever title we have, we should try and help all our British wildlife and that means culling some species hard in order to let other more vulnerable species have a chance. Or that’s how I see it.....
 
Farmer_J said:
If it’s red it’s dead. We are an arable farm mainly but have a small game syndicate and have good numbers of hare, English partridge and in the local area we have a lot of rspb land. We have a great mix of song birds and ground nesters too, I believe this is mainly down to keeping charlie in check.
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Unless your controlling magpies and other corvid as well you'll never win.
 
rms364 said:
Yes but the problem is when Reynard gets a taste of your lamb he doesn’t stop at 1 or 2 does he?? But it’s not just the lambs, we as farmers land managers what ever title we have, we should try and help all our British wildlife and that means culling some species hard in order to let other more vulnerable species have a chance. Or that’s how I see it.....
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I understand that, my RFD took 39 from 9 acres the first year that he had the small holding and on average probably between 15 & 20 since then. To such an extent the there were 14 hares in and around his land one night in October. I’m all in favour of “control” of pests and vermin. However it’s all about control. To what extent depends on the landowner and what the land is used for.
 
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