Sometimes foxes can be useful to the farmer. They are very cunning hunters and all the year round they kill large numbers of wild rabbits, rats and mice, which eat and damage the corps, but when the fox visits the farmyard at night in search of a meal, it is a very different story – the fox becomes the farmer’s enemy.
A hungry fox will sometimes take young lambs and piglets, but more often than not it will head straight for the hen-house. So farm workers have to make sure that all poultry are safely locked up for the night. Now foxes are extremely crafty; they will find any small gap in the wire fence and will even tunnel underneath and squeeze through.
Often a single fox will kill a whole flock of chickens in one night – far more than it needs to ear!
Hopefully the barking of the farm dogs will help keep the fox away!
Not all foxes live in the country, some red foxes inhabit towns and cities. They feed on scraps salvaged from dustbins and rubbish heaps.
A hungry fox will sometimes take young lambs and piglets, but more often than not it will head straight for the hen-house. So farm workers have to make sure that all poultry are safely locked up for the night. Now foxes are extremely crafty; they will find any small gap in the wire fence and will even tunnel underneath and squeeze through.
Often a single fox will kill a whole flock of chickens in one night – far more than it needs to ear!
Hopefully the barking of the farm dogs will help keep the fox away!
Not all foxes live in the country, some red foxes inhabit towns and cities. They feed on scraps salvaged from dustbins and rubbish heaps.
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