Views On Shooting Foxes When Cubs Are About?

[shropshire dan 467]

Very true. I've personally never seen one kill. I've seen them chase lambs/sheep and suppose that could be another problem for them. Could cause stress among the lambs/sheep causing them to break legs etc and then a fox attacking them not sure?

 

One farmer told me lambs are only in danger in the first 48 hours of life. After that apparently he says a lamb can out run a fox, which I personally don't believe.

[Dabhand 887]

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[Deker 3,478]

Very true. I've personally never seen one kill. I've seen them chase lambs/sheep and suppose that could be another problem for them. Could cause stress among the lambs/sheep causing them to break legs etc and then a fox attacking them not sure?

 

One farmer told me lambs are only in danger in the first 48 hours of life. After that apparently he says a lamb can out run a fox, which I personally don't believe.

 

Neither have I specifically, but the fox has plenty of other waste material to eat in the fields around lambing time, and will tend to take weak/deformed/ill lambs first anyway, in many cases these will be gone before the farmer even knew they were born.

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[Ideation 8,216]

Bollocks, they 100% kill live, healthy lambs. If you lamb outside, foxes are a problem, but so are fecking badgers. Picked up two dead lambs this morning, born at last light, both healthy, well formed lambs. Chest cavities eaten out. Raging.

 

Edited to add - You know how much it annoys hunting folk, when people who have no knowledge of the country, and hunting, pass judgement and form opinions? It's the same with farming. Boils my piss when someone who has never kept a sheep in their life, tells you that something doesn't kill them . . . .

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[shropshire dan 467]

Bollocks, they 100% kill live, healthy lambs. If you lamb outside, foxes are a problem, but so are fecking badgers. Picked up two dead lambs this morning, born at last light, both healthy, well formed lambs. Chest cavities eaten out. Raging.

 

Edited to add - You know how much it annoys hunting folk, when people who have no knowledge of the country, and hunting, pass judgement and form opinions? It's the same with farming. Boils my piss when someone who has never kept a sheep in their life, tells you that something doesn't kill them . . . .

nobody said they don't kill them mate just nine of us have seen them kill, have you ever seen a fox kill a lamb? . Chill out and go and shoot the bloody things. Edited April 15, 2015 by shropshire dan

[Malt 379]

Next up: Badgers only eat earthworms and berries..

[hutchey 147]

Badger quite liked the remains of a cherry cheesecake i chucked out the other night too in all seriousness.

Fascinating creatures.

[shropshire dan 467]

They are all extremely beautiful animals. We all know that foxes eat lambs their is no doubt, just none of us have ever seen a fox kill a lamb.

[Tremo 138]

A chap that I know almost saw the deed the other night through his NV. Apparently the fox was circling an ewe and her two lambs, darting in and out trying to separate them.

[shropshire dan 467]

Sounds wrong but I'd actually be interested in seeing a fox stalking it's prey.

[Ideation 8,216]

 

Bollocks, they 100% kill live, healthy lambs. If you lamb outside, foxes are a problem, but so are fecking badgers. Picked up two dead lambs this morning, born at last light, both healthy, well formed lambs. Chest cavities eaten out. Raging.

 

Edited to add - You know how much it annoys hunting folk, when people who have no knowledge of the country, and hunting, pass judgement and form opinions? It's the same with farming. Boils my piss when someone who has never kept a sheep in their life, tells you that something doesn't kill them . . . .

nobody said they don't kill them mate just nine of us have seen them kill, have you ever seen a fox kill a lamb? . Chill out and go and shoot the bloody things.

 

 

Sorry, at that point this morning, after bagging up dead lambs. . . . . I was not very chilled.

 

The farm manager was out the other night on a spot that lambs have been going missing. Sat in the field with N.V and saw four foxes coming in around the sheep. One pair were actively coursing lambs round the field, trying to trap them and nail them. Needless to say all 4 got whacked.

 

But what they normally do is wait for the ewe to lamb here, and when she is lambing her second, they move in and nail the first, and then often come back for the second. Also had one killed by fox / badger, and second one suffocate in its birth sack, as mum is too busy trying to defend her first born to lick the second. Nothing sadder than seeing a poor old ewe thats carried two lambs all through winter, done them well and birthed them on her own. . . . . standing over the half eaten remains of her lambs who have had a couple of hours of life before being killed. Ewe then most likely gets mastitis and ends up culled.

[Tremo 138]

Nah, he didn't see the end result of the act. The vixen was obviously up to no good, so he dropped it in its tracks. The landowner was over the moon. Brownie points or what with such a story??

[Ideation 8,216]

Nah, he didn't see the end result of the act. The vixen was obviously up to no good, so he dropped it in its tracks. The landowner was over the moon. Brownie points or what with such a story??

 

Shoot a fox like that by me, and you'll get an OBE lol.

[shropshire dan 467]

No need to apologise buddy I understand your frustration. I've just never seen one physically kill one. I absolutely love lambs and think they are a beautiful playful animal. It isn't nice having things killed I had chickens killed at my brother's farm, and the kids last year hand fed some lambs at my brother's only to go the following day and 2 were in pieces They were heartbroken. It is a hard fact of life but a lot of the time I think foxes are often blamed for killing lambs when sometimes their is a lame or sick lamb that has been an easy meal for charlie as I'm sure you know this is the case a lot of the time. Don't get me wrong I know as well as any that foxes need to be culled and I admit I love culling them lol

[shropshire dan 467]

I've shot over 40 foxes with the .22-250 since Christmas so glad I traded the hmr in for it lol