markyboy Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 At this time of year, young lambs running about . Is it a bad idea to shoot the dog fox doing the majority of the work for feeding? Will the vixen come out of ground and kill fur fun? As such Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockercas Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 I don't really understand the question but if you get a fox in the sights pull the trigger. Only good will come from a dead fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 At this time of year, young lambs running about . Is it a bad idea to shoot the dog fox doing the majority of the work for feeding? Will the vixen come out of ground and kill fur fun? As such Cheers The FOX does NOT kill for fun, another myth, the fox will kill and take everything it can't immediately eat and store it, it just so happens they get tired sometimes and don't have time to get all the "chickens" home defore they are disturbed. Trust me, if you left them there the fox would be back the next night to take them. Dead foxes are required, particularly at this time of year, the Vixen also hunts even if she has cubs. A vixen with no dog would not be killing for fun in any way, she has cubs to look after! And hard though it may seem, I've not met a sheep farmer yet who is happy for me to leave either dog or vixen as the cubs will starve without them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyboy Posted April 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 thanks for reply,it was just somthing sombody said to me,and wondered what you guys thought. im not big on the foxing, i like the odd night with the lamp but do like to know about the way they live ie if the dogs killed,if the vixen is killed does dog stay with them and feed them. i shot 2 vixens from the same hole a week apart,which i also found strange but intersting. does anybody bait the foxes with dog meat or cat meat? this to me is cheating a little bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 sometimes killing a fox in a lambing area could be a bad thing if thats what your asking in a roundabout way. Foxes hold territory and if there are foxes holding the territory but no harm being done it is sometimes better just to control the numbers without killing all in area as we would with deer. Killing all risks a void which could be filled by a rouge that is used to barren land or just plain too bold- not sure no way of telling but experianced it a few times. It could be a dog or a vixen infact Vixens are terrible when teaching the cubs to hunt they tend to take them to easy pickings like hens. baiting works its only a modern variation on the old stink pit used by keepers way before spotlights and still used today. Liquidising cat food is an easy quick option as they cant grab and run. An old guy locally told me how he used to shoot a stack of foxes by tethering a dead pheasant or hen to a length of fishing line then attaching this to a bell in his bedroom (tinckle, tinckle - BOOM!) hes deaf as a post now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodentermite Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 if you shoot the vixen the dog can sometimes become a rogue fox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 if you shoot the vixen the dog can sometimes become a rogue fox. and likewise in reverce, you need to just take a view on things. As the land i control now is heavilly keepered and hunted on all sides i take the view on kill first as there are fewer to come in. Previously on other land i had the oposite effect many more outside the territory than in so i left alone for the biggest part keeping check on numbers and dealing with problems as they occured only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyboy Posted April 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Thanks guys very interesting to read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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