Fox kills 9 chickens and carries them away in 30 minutes?
Hey, I saw a lot of feathers in front of and in my chicken run this morning…
I suspect it was a fox, but I wonder if a fox could really carry off nine chickens in 30 minutes (do foxes also work in packs?). My rooster had one or more fights about 50 meters from the chicken coop (his feathers were lying everywhere). Can foxes jump over a 1.80 meter high fence, since there's a 1.80 meter high fence between the chicken coop and the place where the rooster fought (without a hole and without an open gate)? Two of the 11 chickens survived (they sat in the coop, shocked and very scared).
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It can be both a marten and a fox.
Marder decayed, stimulated by the panic of chickens, sometimes in a kind of blood rush. Then everything that moves will be killed. To some extent they can also dig, and also climb well.
Füchse can very well dig and(what many do not know) climb excellently. Füchse do not act in the pack, but it happens that a fox returns several times. They can jump well.
Did you find dead chickens? Or much blood? Marders often bite chickens off their head to bleed them out.
Nowhere was blood. But nowhere a chicken
How deep is the fence anchored in the ground?
10cm but there were no holes
It could have been a marten. They both don’t hunt in the pack.They kill all chickens from hunting instincts would also be common, but most of them would let them lie more and only take one.
I’m sure it was a fox when a fox was seen nearby more often
What does that have to do with it? You must have seen people in the area. Maybe it was one of them.
The plot is fenced and behind our house
Usually foxes take only 1-2 chickens, and buddle under fence or jump over smaller fence sections
All 9 chickens are gone I have searched our whole plot (also beside our property).
You could set up a camera and see if you see something
It’s funny, because of the fence, I would have tipped on a bird, but there’s a net. I would have ruled out a fox because he wouldn’t take 9 chickens, and a marder would probably have killed all of them in blood rush, but there would have been bodies left behind.
Can be quite, foxes can jump up to 2 to 2.20 meters. But can be just as good a bird of prey. In the future, I would advise you to also span a net about the enclosure that has saved many of my chickens life.
Above the enclosure is a net
Okay, that’s all right. Take a look at whether there is a small hole somewhere, otherwise a little Mader could have used it. If it wasn’t, I’m sorry to end with my Latin…
I wonder how the foxes have come in because there is no hole and has not been buried under the enclosure.
Yes then he was starving.
Maybe he dug a hole where he went through…
Yes, he can even jump higher.
can it have been robbers??
No a net is stretched over the whole enclosure
Füchse I think single-goers
Yeah, that can be.
Didn’t you hear anything?