jackg 7 Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Terraced house in a village with the chicken coop in the back garden (20 feet wide by 60 feet long) in a corner next to an outhouse with untidy wood pile in it, the outhouse backs onto the coop and the run. Three Bantams in their coop three feet off the gound, door left open, the door is usually shut, a rabbit sized hole into the ground in the run some 8 feet away. Netting over some of the run. All Bantams taken one night, a bit of blood and a few feathers nothing else left. Garden has 6-7 foot high wooden fences around it, a chicken farm with 100 chickens down the lane. So hard for a fox to get in over the fence? Rats and or mice in the adjacent outhouse which maybe linked to the hole in the run. Not a Badger, no large holes nor digging. Not a stoat as there are mice probably rats in the outhouse, and no Bantam bodies left in the coop. Not a rat as no bodies are left. Could be a neighbours cat but no bodies left and clean kills? Gun dog in the house was not disturbed. Mink possibly, but not a problem round here AFAIK. Vixen feeding young seems likely but access is difficult over the fence unless it got through the hole in the ground? Is that about right? Quote Link to post
Guest thebigdog Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 fox, he wont have no problem getting over a fence that high Quote Link to post
Malt 379 Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Aye sounds like a fox.. Quote Link to post
walshie 2,804 Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Sounds like a fox as they were all taken at the same time. Quote Link to post
The one 8,469 Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Aye a fox probably checked it every night till you didn't shut the door Quote Link to post
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