Anyone else had trouble with foxes in the daytime?My girls were making a real racket at mid-day,just arrived in time to see it pounce on one of my speckled sussex.Luckily I was just in time,a lot of feathers flew but a combination of me shouting[won't say what] and the hen being so big she got away with just a minor limp.We've put up barbed wire all round now and keeping our fingers crossed.On the subject of large hens,anyone know where I can get Jersey blacks from in the midlands?I've put an ad. in the wanted section but so far am struggling to find any locally.
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- Thread starter Martdog3
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Barbed wire won't keep a fox out. The best deterrent is electric either in single strands placed strategically or netting as foxes will attack day or night.
If you spread the net a little further Re. the Giants, you have a few days before the National Show at Stoneleigh, or the Federation Show at Stafford in December where more birds are exchanged than are shown I would have thought !
If you spread the net a little further Re. the Giants, you have a few days before the National Show at Stoneleigh, or the Federation Show at Stafford in December where more birds are exchanged than are shown I would have thought !
chrismahon
Well-known member
You may have a country fox turned urban. Still cunning enough to avoid traps but now daring enough to attack in the daytime. We lost a lot of lovely birds to one before we left England and never caught it. Worst sort and secure fencing is an urgent requirement Martdog3 - it will be back in a week or so and will keep coming back looking for a way in.
valeriebutterley
New member
Hi Martdog,
re. large black hens, can you get Croad Langshans?
I bought two, having lost my entire flock to a fox attack. I decided to start again, rather than give up.
The Langshans are the most beautiful, gentle giants, ever. Coal black with a beetle green sheen, HUGE and still only about 20 or less weeks, absolutely stunning, also, possibly the brightest hens I've ever come across, and much too laid back and idle to fly!!!!!
I think I've got my dream hens, and purebred to boot.
re. large black hens, can you get Croad Langshans?
I bought two, having lost my entire flock to a fox attack. I decided to start again, rather than give up.
The Langshans are the most beautiful, gentle giants, ever. Coal black with a beetle green sheen, HUGE and still only about 20 or less weeks, absolutely stunning, also, possibly the brightest hens I've ever come across, and much too laid back and idle to fly!!!!!
I think I've got my dream hens, and purebred to boot.
But sort out that fencing first, Martdog!
