Our neighbor farm wants fox for killing rats

[2 Acres]

Wolf Decoy maybe?

Leg snares or hinge traps

 

[2 Acres]

Foxes, like most animals, are territorial and will defend their hunting grounds so eliminating this one just means another will find the vacant territory and settle in. But it just goes to show that rats and wild birds do draw predators so controlling the vermin means predators go elsewhere as well.

If the fox is just passing by then I would say you are on top of your vermin control so make sure you have something better than chicken wire protecting the coop and let the fox do its job in controlling the rats. It might be unnerving having a predator hanging around but ask yourself what else might be hanging around that you don't know about.

Years ago (off and on) I had a bobcat hanging around my property. Same with a cougar, several feral hogs, and a black bear. Thought I might start a petting zoo, then I thought better not. However, the admission would have been free...

 

[McChooky]

Years ago (off and on) I had a bobcat hanging around my property. Same with a cougar, several feral hogs, and a black bear. Thought I might start a petting zoo, then I thought better not. However, the admission would have been free...

There wouldn't be no petting going on for sure

 

[MysteryChicken]

Leg snares or hinge traps

They want to scare it the other way, not trap it.

 

[Al Gerhart]

Years ago (off and on) I had a bobcat hanging around my property. Same with a cougar, several feral hogs, and a black bear. Thought I might start a petting zoo, then I thought better not. However, the admission would have been free...

Cougars and foxes have different prey species, not that a cougar wouldn't eat a mouse, but it would hunt larger species. Same for feral hogs, omnivore for sure, but they aren't hunting mice, they are rooting for crops, roots, insects. Bears and hogs do share some of the same food sources but a bear against a pack of hogs?

Different environmental niches, some peripheral competition between the species you mentioned but not a lot for a fox. They do defend territory from competing species.

 

[2 Acres]

Cougars and foxes have different prey species, not that a cougar wouldn't eat a mouse, but it would hunt larger species. Same for feral hogs, omnivore for sure, but they aren't hunting mice, they are rooting for crops, roots, insects. Bears and hogs do share some of the same food sources but a bear against a pack of hogs?

Different environmental niches, some peripheral competition between the species you mentioned but not a lot for a fox. They do defend territory from competing species.

LOL... you took my post seriously. It was meant as "tongue in cheek"

 

[2 Acres]

LOL... you took my post seriously. It was meant as "tongue in cheek"

However... On a very serious note...

 

[Al Gerhart]

LOL... you took my post seriously. It was meant as "tongue in cheek"

Sorry, cabinetmakers are like engineers and machinists, we use very precise speech. It keeps us out of hot water with customers. You choose every word with care when dealing with customers, you are messing with their dreams so you got to get inside their heads to understand what they mean versus what the say. LOL

 

[terriergal]

moth balls around the outside of coop? Or dryer sheets (I hate them but the scent can also drive wildlife away likely because it smells like a human is right there “somewhere” with all their perfumed clothing on).

 

[2 Acres]

Sorry, cabinetmakers are like engineers and machinists, we use very precise speech. It keeps us out of hot water with customers. You choose every word with care when dealing with customers, you are messing with their dreams so you got to get inside their heads to understand what they mean versus what the say. LOL

Knock on wood???