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Disgusted by this Daily Mail article. News or propoganda?
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Well I'm no supporter of the Daily Mail but it's also currently the 3rd most popular story on the BBC news website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ney-shetland-17259087
I love foxes but, if it's really necessary to control them to protect livestock,shooting them has got to be better than hunting them with hounds.
Anyway, that fox doesn't look particularly bigger to me than some I've seen here in Suffolk.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ney-shetland-17259087
I love foxes but, if it's really necessary to control them to protect livestock,shooting them has got to be better than hunting them with hounds.
Anyway, that fox doesn't look particularly bigger to me than some I've seen here in Suffolk.
It's a sad but true fact that foxes kill not just to eat but for fun (I've had em decimate hens and geese and not take any). I can't therefore in all honesty blame a farmer for shooting them ( much as I personally think they're a beautiful creature). Is it propaganda? No I can't see that it is. Is it the biggest fox in England? I'm with Chris on that, it just looks like a medium largish run of the mill fox to me.
I have a friend who used to keep sheep on a farm near Chichester. One day in the lambing season he went to check the ewes and found one in severe distress; she had been giving birth and a fox had killed the lamb as it was being born then gone on to eat into the rear end of the ewe. she had to be put down. There were two other dead and partially eaten lambs in the field as well.
In France I saw 13 dead hens where a fox had got into a coop and killed the lot, only one had been taken away.
However appealing a fox in good condition looks it is a senseless killer.
In France I saw 13 dead hens where a fox had got into a coop and killed the lot, only one had been taken away.
However appealing a fox in good condition looks it is a senseless killer.
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Those pictures were also in the Times a couple of days ago, not sure how it is propaganda.
Have to agree with Nox & Shoota, a fox killed 4 of our five hens but didn't eat them, although the heads were gone so I can only presume it was full after that.
We never intended them to be for the table, just as pets with the added bonus of eggs, not nice to find 4 decapitated pets strewn around the garden :( so I can fully understand farmers wanting to protect their livestock.
Have to agree with Nox & Shoota, a fox killed 4 of our five hens but didn't eat them, although the heads were gone so I can only presume it was full after that.
We never intended them to be for the table, just as pets with the added bonus of eggs, not nice to find 4 decapitated pets strewn around the garden :( so I can fully understand farmers wanting to protect their livestock.
Propaganda for town people.
.It's as bit of a myth that farmers shoot foxes. We have better things to do.Foxes eat rabbits, which are vermin and very destructive of crops, and so foxes are worth having (which explains why fox hunting was a 'sport'only)
Nobody shoots foxes around here; we do rabbits. As for foxhunting, getting 60 riders plus say 30 couple of hounds plus full time staff to go out maybe twice a week, and ride miles across country and then only in Winter, kiling only a few, was never "vermin control" as foxhunters later claimed. You wouldn't think much of Rentokil if they only killed your rats for a few months in Winter so as to make sure there were enough rats for next Winter!
A fox will only kill what it needs in the wild but let it in a hen coop and it is completely overwhelmed by the unnatural circumstances, man made, in which it finds itself and we all know the result. Commercial enterprises don't suffer that; your supermarket chicken has never been in danger from foxes. The answer is secure the chickens, don't blame the fox, though it is very upsetting when you don't manage that, as we all know.
.It's as bit of a myth that farmers shoot foxes. We have better things to do.Foxes eat rabbits, which are vermin and very destructive of crops, and so foxes are worth having (which explains why fox hunting was a 'sport'only)
Nobody shoots foxes around here; we do rabbits. As for foxhunting, getting 60 riders plus say 30 couple of hounds plus full time staff to go out maybe twice a week, and ride miles across country and then only in Winter, kiling only a few, was never "vermin control" as foxhunters later claimed. You wouldn't think much of Rentokil if they only killed your rats for a few months in Winter so as to make sure there were enough rats for next Winter!
A fox will only kill what it needs in the wild but let it in a hen coop and it is completely overwhelmed by the unnatural circumstances, man made, in which it finds itself and we all know the result. Commercial enterprises don't suffer that; your supermarket chicken has never been in danger from foxes. The answer is secure the chickens, don't blame the fox, though it is very upsetting when you don't manage that, as we all know.
Perhaps a pure arable farmer has a different attitude to foxes than a sheep or game farmer; I can see that anything which helps to control the rabbit population is a boon to the arable farmer but my friend had a mixed farm (cereals, roots and sheep) and I think that he would happily pull the trigger on the last fox on earth.
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