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I'm glad you got the legalities figured out! Now you can decide to let the fox stay or to remove it, but either way you can act on the decision you make, without needing to fuss with getting a permit or something like that.

Do you have any fatty laying hens that need to be culled?

What is wrong with the inside of that rabbit's ear? (Big brown rabbit, left ear.)

In that case, I am still puzzled by the whole thing, but you are obviously beyond me in researching it. If you finally figure it out, I'd love to hear what the final answer is!

https://myfwc.com/license/wildlife/nuisance-wildlife-permits/ This has a whole list of different permits for taking nuisance wildlife. More than one of them mention foxes (as in, you are allowed to take foxes with that permit.) But you may not need a permit at all, if I read this correctly...

That is talking about furbearing animals, but what about this? https://myfwc.com/license/wildlife/nuisance-wildlife-permits/gun-light/ A quote from that page: "The Gun and Light at Night Permit authorizes individuals to take depredating wildlife (beaver, bobcat, fox, opossum, rabbit, raccoon...

Belated update: "Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits" is pretty much the same thing, still by Bob Bennet, with the same information plus/minus a few minor details. I got it out of my local library and read it to make sure. So there's no point in tracking down an older book if the newer one is...

Depending on which part of Alaska, it might not be as bad as you think. I grew up near Kenai, a bit south of Anchorage (biggest city in the state.) Electric lights are a wonderful invention-- I would not have wanted to live there before electricity was common! But there was always daylight by...

Those websites are only somewhat helpful-- they usually say something like "after the last frost," and then give a month-long range for when that last frost is likely to be. Or they say "3 weeks before the last frost," which is impossible to figure if the last frost could come any time within a...

That makes sense. I wasn't sure if you were basing it on experience of what works for you (good) or on something you read (good or bad, depending on the source and the rationale involved.)

What makes you say that is a great litter size? I had thought 8-10 was a better litter size for meat-type rabbits. (Of course it doesn't matter much when they all die anyway.) What is the reason for waiting three months? If she was mine, I would be inclined to rebreed in about a week, and...

I suspect the climate makes the difference. Tilapia might survive in the wild during a Florida winter, but should not be able to make it through a Michigan winter. That really limits their ability to start a breeding population and cause trouble in Michigan. According to wikipedia (which may or...

I saw it in the frozen foods section, in a big cardboard box labeled something like "frozen goat cubes." It was not in the section with un-frozen meats. (The entire box was not particularly cheap, but I'm pretty sure it was cheaper than building pens, buying goats, feeding goats, and then...

I've seen goat meat for sale in my local Costco. (But they may stock different things in different regions of the country.) I can't remember for sure, but I may have also spotted goat meat in some stores that offer hallal meat, and some stores that specialize in the ingredients for recipes from...

It might be this one:

Meat-type doe (about 8-12 pounds mature weight), raising a litter, a common cage size is 30" by 36" and 18" high. Bucks commonly get a cage slightly smaller, because they aren't sharing with a litter of bunnies. More space is fine, but if you make the cage too big it is hard to reach rabbits...

And dogs can chew up a rabbit's feet right through the .5" by 1" bottom wire, too. And a big dog can bend the wire and the door latches enough to get the rabbit out. And of course a raccoon can reach through 1" by 2" holes to grab rabbits. Those kinds of wire are great for keeping the rabbits...

Those measurements (in inches) match my memory of what size wire is common in rabbit cages in the USA.

If you want rabbits as pets, Netherland Dwarfs are a reasonable choice. But if you want them to breed (for meat or to have more pets), they are not the easiest breed to start with. In general, smaller rabbits have less bunnies per litter but more birthing troubles, as compared with larger...

Yes, exactly that. And I've only seen it a few times, so they must do it mostly when no-one is watching. The wikipedia article on rabbits has more about it (section "digestion"), although I have also seen it described in various books on raising rabbits. Maybe it feels different as it comes...