It all started Saturday late afternoon. I had the security cameras on, as watching the chickens and folks walking their dogs is more entertaining than politics on the TV. They were raising a fit, and of course that meant something was after them.
I stepped outside and a nasty, nasty, nasty looking fox was trying to get them. I yelled at it (first line of defense), and it stopped and stared and snarled at me. It looked like a zombie fox. All its hair was standing straight up like it had been in a dryer too long and a lot of hair was missing. Several BIG patches were gone. It apparently had mange (deadly in foxes), the winter temps kill them and who knows what else.
Danged thing just stood there and glared at me. Not very good. It was 15' away from me. Finally I flapped my arms and it left. Chickens were really rattled.
I close the door and go back inside. I look out the window and the creep is back! So I yell and knock on the glass and it goes off again.
So I settle back in and see it coming back out of the woods! That cut it!
I went outside and it ran back maybe 50' total from me near the car. I then unleashed on it.
It just stood there and stared at me like I was stupid, then ran off into the woods. It will not come back.
Next morning when I went out poor Scrambles was covered in her blood, she had tried so hard to get away she tore up her upper beak on the wire cage they are in. Blood all over her, the pen. I thought she was going to die.
Well she didn't and is getting better and the other hen has been seen picking her little chest clean!
So this morning they had chicken food, then a sausage biscuit I bought for them, then later a can of cat food, lots of protein and finally scrambled eggs with the shells.
They will be six years old in March.
I stepped outside and a nasty, nasty, nasty looking fox was trying to get them. I yelled at it (first line of defense), and it stopped and stared and snarled at me. It looked like a zombie fox. All its hair was standing straight up like it had been in a dryer too long and a lot of hair was missing. Several BIG patches were gone. It apparently had mange (deadly in foxes), the winter temps kill them and who knows what else.
Danged thing just stood there and glared at me. Not very good. It was 15' away from me. Finally I flapped my arms and it left. Chickens were really rattled.
I close the door and go back inside. I look out the window and the creep is back! So I yell and knock on the glass and it goes off again.
So I settle back in and see it coming back out of the woods! That cut it!
I went outside and it ran back maybe 50' total from me near the car. I then unleashed on it.
It just stood there and stared at me like I was stupid, then ran off into the woods. It will not come back.
Next morning when I went out poor Scrambles was covered in her blood, she had tried so hard to get away she tore up her upper beak on the wire cage they are in. Blood all over her, the pen. I thought she was going to die.
Well she didn't and is getting better and the other hen has been seen picking her little chest clean!
So this morning they had chicken food, then a sausage biscuit I bought for them, then later a can of cat food, lots of protein and finally scrambled eggs with the shells.
They will be six years old in March.
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Sorry I couldn't resist. I'm glad they made it. I had snakes getting to my parakeets, had to make the cage mesh smaller. Thing got in and ate one of my new babies! One time one got in and decided to sleep it off in the bottom of the cage. I couldn't kill it, the poor snake was doing what came natural. I did take it to some woods far away.
