“Ever seen a hen house after a fox has visited?”
Pretty sure that if I had a henhouse, I would make as certain as possible that a fox was unable to gain entry into it, if I cared about the hens.
“Pretty sure that if I had a henhouse, I would make as certain as possible that a fox was unable to gain entry into it, if I cared about the hens.”
Pretty sure you’ve never had a hen house.
Yep.
Never seen it and never kept livestock.
You are forgiven for being ignorant.
Try not to make a display of it.
You gonna keep them coupled up in an impenetrable g le cement bunker all the time? That isn’t very nice of you. And just for the record, they don’t call foxes wiley for nothing. Unless you are gonna keep your hens in an impenetrable cement bunker all their lives, foxes and coyotes, and mink, and weasels, and Fischer, and badgers, and all manner of animals WILL get into the coup despite your best efforts to keep them out.
And the bigger predators like coyotes don’t just go after small chickens, they will take anything they can, even bison calves, or sick horses if they can. You gonna keep all these animals in cement prisons too.
Predators are a problem, a big problem, which is why states all allow a hunting season on them which many people enjoy doing.. it’d Good for the environment, it’s Good for wildlife mmanagement and it’s good for a person’s emotional wellbeing to be out enjoying doing what they love in the great outdoors.
Many folks don’t have the emotional hangup that you evidently have about culling predators and nuisance vermin. You don’t live in an area apparently where nuisance Animals are costing you a ton of money every year.
Do you also have hangup about massive overpopulation of rats infesting areas, and folks b e ing called in to cull them too? Or are you picky and choosey about which destructive nuisance animals you like and dislike? Just curious why you think a coyotes is more to be valued than rats, or mice, or cockroachez?