Something a bit different

[SportingShooter 0]

some lad lost a leatherjackets or did they attack him

Attacked I'd say.

 

Never find out up in those wild hills eh?

[dicehorn 38]

I was a little surprised John that the list did not include the odd rat especially at that time of the year when rats are active with cereals.

 

I know we give the fox a bad press but in reality he hoovers up many rats in a year. Although I keep chicken and have lost dozens to the fox over the last 10 years or so, I must say that I regularly see a vixen (I think its a vixen) in my paddock with night vision (me not the fox!!) and see her catch rats coming out of a wood pile.

[big john 0]

great reading pal often thought [bANNED TEXT] ive shot a fox wat the hell dous it eat round here.theres my anser

[Guest JohnGalway]

Where it says sheep I wonder if the distinction would have been made between lamb and mutton. It's possible that it could have been entirely made up of adult sheep but I doubt it as I know, for certain, one of the foxes I sent in for study was taking lambs on my dad.

 

I don't know if hes published yet or not, been a long time since we've been in contact but I'll try and text him to find out. I'm sure I've read somewhere badgers were involved in digging out bumble bee nests? I reckon myself that a fox will take most anything that's handy and they prefer to take the living most of the year except for when extremely pressed. I know of sheep remains died out on the hills and weren;t touched by foxes at certain times of the year. Other times, like around now they'll tuck in like there's no tomorrow.

 

For around here mice, I would think, would be more on the menu for a local fox than rats. For a start we've zero tillage, zero dairy farms, pretty much zero quality land. Think hill sheep farms and a few cattle and horses mixed in. Any green fields would be fairly poor quality compared to the pictures I see up here. Plenty of small rodents though, I often see them crossing the road in front of the car on my way here and there. There are, of course, rats about but I've probably caught less than ten, mind you I don't go looking for them. No poultry or pig units or any of that type farming here either. Rock, bog, marsh, water, hills, gorse, bracken etc makes up the landscape.

 

I'd prefer to have more foxes around here and get out and about to watch them. But, I've been on the receiving end of what an educated one can and will do so am forced to keep the population down. That's life!

[biffo 0]

is to find out which mammals eat bumblebee nests

 

 

bet you a fiver its badgers

[mickel 0]

Just shot a dog fox about an hour ago

 

I knew he was chewing at something because

he was n't too bothered by the lamp

Shot him at about yrds and when we went to

retrieve him he was lying on what looked like

the chewed front leg of another fox.

We had shot a fox only about 550-600 yrds away

last week.

We decided to check this by going back to where the other fox

was disposed of.

And yes as well as being badly decomposed

sure enough it was missing a front leg.

 

This dog was a well fed lad in great condition.

Hard to believe he was that hungry to go eating

one of his own.

 

Again no pictures(batteries flat in camera)

[Guest JohnGalway]

Can well believe that. The first fox I ever shot was munching on something as well, a dead badger :sick: