SportingShooter 0 Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 sounder said: some lad lost a leatherjackets or did they attack him Attacked I'd say. Never find out up in those wild hills eh? Quote Link to post
dicehorn 38 Posted December 20, 2008 Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 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. Quote Link to post
big john 0 Posted December 20, 2008 Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 great reading pal often thought [bANNED TEXT] ive shot a fox wat the hell dous it eat round here.theres my anser Quote Link to post
Guest JohnGalway Posted December 20, 2008 Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 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! Quote Link to post
biffo 0 Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 StephOC said: is to find out which mammals eat bumblebee nests bet you a fiver its badgers Quote Link to post
mickel 0 Posted December 27, 2008 Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 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) Quote Link to post
Guest JohnGalway Posted December 27, 2008 Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 Can well believe that. The first fox I ever shot was munching on something as well, a dead badger :sick: Quote Link to post
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