Foxes
Was told by our neighbour tonight that a fox had been sitting in our garden today, until they chased it away.
Although we've always been aware that chickens are a target for foxes, this kind of makes things more real.
I'm dead against hunting, It was a cruel way of controlling them, no reason for it, except for "kicks". I'm sure, being from where I am, I'm suppose to understand why they do it, but I just don't. I agree that foxes need to be controlled, because they are a threat to the free range poultry industry, but there are better and more humane ways to control them. A single shot is far better way than having them chased and ripped apart by dogs.
I don't have anything against foxes really, because they are only trying to survive and we, by keeping chickens / rabbits etc are creating a unnatural "supermarket" for them, but they are predators at the end of the day.
Anyway, we will try to do everything to stop the fox having a chance of our chickens! Once the new run is up and running we should be fine, so fingers crossed until then!
Was told by our neighbour tonight that a fox had been sitting in our garden today, until they chased it away.
Although we've always been aware that chickens are a target for foxes, this kind of makes things more real.
I'm dead against hunting, It was a cruel way of controlling them, no reason for it, except for "kicks". I'm sure, being from where I am, I'm suppose to understand why they do it, but I just don't. I agree that foxes need to be controlled, because they are a threat to the free range poultry industry, but there are better and more humane ways to control them. A single shot is far better way than having them chased and ripped apart by dogs.
I don't have anything against foxes really, because they are only trying to survive and we, by keeping chickens / rabbits etc are creating a unnatural "supermarket" for them, but they are predators at the end of the day.
Anyway, we will try to do everything to stop the fox having a chance of our chickens! Once the new run is up and running we should be fine, so fingers crossed until then!
posted by Owen Rhys Williams at
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Anonymous, at 3/02/2006 2:05 PM
It should also be noted that the Human population in Britain is not only getting bigger each year, but those increases demand for housing, roads, streets, bridges, motorways etc.. That result in "our" environment has steadily and indefinately shrunk "their" environment down, and will continue to do so in the future. The choice to "control" any species is a hard one, but where do you draw the line? Especially if a species only means (or prefered) of surviving is to eat "our" resources (whether crops or domesticated animals)?
The reason I make distincition between "them" and "us" is a good one, since evidence supports that any species that attempts to take/exploit anything from the human environment is often killed.
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