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Would a fox be able to lift the wood without the hinge lock? Say if it was just tied directly without the hinge to block lifting it.
by koolba 6mo ago
Would a fox be able to lift the wood without the hinge lock? Say if it was just tied directly without the hinge to block lifting it.
- Terr_ 6mo agoI'm not around a lot of foxes, but I imagine so: They both burrow and hunt burrowing prey, so "lift and scrape this obstacle of the way" is in their skillet.
- Terr_ 6mo ago*skillset, and now I'm imagining a much darker version of that Disney Robin-Hood cartoon.
- HeyLaughingBoy 6mo agoProbably. I used to have a pet parrot that learned how to open its cage from watching me unlatch it every day.
- Loughla 6mo agoIf not a fox, a raccoon can. Here's my fun everything likes to eat chickens story. When we first built our house, nobody had ever lived within about 2 miles of our farm. There were coyotes everywhere. So I spent a couple years trapping and shooting them after they ate a couple of my chickens. Then came the racoons. They ate some chickens so back to trapping and shooting. Then weasels and minks. Except they could get into the coop through the windows in the wall that were covered in wire and 6' off the ground. So, more traps. Now it's bobcats. Oh, and don't forget the stupid red-tailed hawks and BALD FUCKING EAGLES as well. No trapping or shooting those bastards. Everything. Everything eats chickens. I'm surprised I haven't seen a damn frog eating one of them.
- kiddico 6mo agoJesus. You bought what sounds like a beautiful place and murdered your way to a couple dozen eggs...
- Loughla 6mo agoBloodlust makes them taste better?
- noir_lord 6mo agoAn accurate summation of humanity over the last few thousand years.
- devilbunny 6mo agoProof that dogs are the smart wolves. Get domesticated, get a steady food supply for the small price of “don’t fuck with humans”.
- Tempest1981 6mo agoI enjoyed this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biggest_Little_Farm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biggest_Little_Farm Similar challenges, but attempts at natural solutions (not easy, so much complexity) Trailer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UfDTM4JxHl8 https://youtube.com/watch?v=UfDTM4JxHl8
- stickfigure 6mo agoIt's a super cute movie but I think it's pretty heavily dramatized. The owner is a filmmaker so it was a sort reality TV project from the beginning. Totally enjoyable watch, but I wouldn't look for real world farming advice here.
- emmelaich 6mo agoIf your interests run bucolic you may be interested in the upcoming 3h documentary "The Valley". https://thevalleyfilm.au/ https://thevalleyfilm.au/
- semerda 6mo agoDo you have a rooster to help fight the chaos?
- Loughla 6mo agoYes but they are usually just the first ones to get eaten. So now we keep a jersey giant to scare off the coons, and a bantam something or other to scare off the hawks/eagles.
- erikerikson 6mo agoHow is a bantam helpful with eagles?
- Loughla 6mo agoThey're the only ones that seem to want to fight the eagles. They're HYPER aggressive. I don't get it.
- erikerikson 6mo agoThanks so much, good to know. We want chickens in a place with eagle problems.
- TurdF3rguson 6mo agoThe first week after we got chickens my wife comes to me upset and tells me one of them died overnight. Apparently it's covered in slime and neither of us knows what to make of that. A few days later it happens again. Huh, so she asks some locals what the heck is going on. It turns out a big snake was getting in there and eating the chicken, but then he was too fat to get back out of the coop so he had to barf it up to escape.
- -warren 6mo agoMy chickens must have been born in the Bronx, because they've cornered an opossum, bloodied coons and only one has ever "lost" to a fox.
- turtlebits 6mo agoProbably, but it'd be pretty trivial to add some weight to the door.