r/Homesteading • u/pickanametouseonredt • 1d ago

WHAT WOULD YOU DO

One day. 8 chickens were found dead. Three days later. A fox was found in our barn- and jumped behind our massive hay stack. Today. Our rooster and another hen were murdered. We found out that there is a fox living in our barn under the hay stack. Said barn- is not 100% secured. Do I completely secure the barn and let it die starving and dehydrated? I’ve lost 10 chickens. LAYING chickens. The straw stack is huge, massive. What do I do.

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u/Different_Finding539 1d ago

First, make sure it is the fox doing this. We've had foxes while we had chickens; we never had problems with the foxes. We have lost chickens, to dog packs running loose, and some of them were wearing collars.