And then there was a fox . . .

That about says it all! We thought we had weasel problems BUT it turns out it is a fox. Last week, we lost another chicken which brings the total to 3 chickens. Fortunately we had a fresh snowfall which gave us good paw prints. The paw prints were definitely not weasel. Weasels don't have claws and these prints showed signs of claws and they were too big for weasels. After a search on the Internet, looks like we have a fox visiting our chickens.

We happened to be up at the duck pen the next day and saw the same prints. He (or she) walked right pass the duck pen. So we followed the prints and lost them under our deck. Now won't that be a kick in the butt if the fox is living under OUR deck while feasting on OUR chickens!

So for the time being the chickens will have to be locked up in the chicken house. Apparently, Mr. or Ms Fox didn't like that very much and yesterday for the first time we had a duck attack and it wasn't pretty. We are now at war and the casualties are mounting. I can't afford to lose many more. So I made a few calls to a couple of my farmer friends. Today I go to pick up a live trap. To all the animals activists, I am sorry if this offends you, but this is my business and I have way too much money invested in these animals to be feeding them to Mr/Ms Fox. If we are able, we will get the "criminal" and "deposit" him/her out at East Fork Lake. But, if there is any chance that we will get bite while trying to remove him, well sorry folks . . .

Until then, all the animals will have to remain locked up. I hate doing that because I won't like being locked up. But I gotta do what I gotta do.