Thread 5025434

My dad owns a small farm and a fox moved in somewhere. My disgusting Boomer grandparents are visiting him and trying to coerce him into exterminate the fox and its babies. He keeps shouting at my dad that it'll kill the chickens which literally hasnt done ever. I'm so fucking sick of these beligerent comments. Foxes keep away all rodents and are important for the soil. Why do boomers want to kill everything??

Tell them that there are so many ways to mitigate their livestock dying from predators. Of course they will never not lose a few of livestock to predators, but there are so many options at lessening the numbers and frequency. A ditch with a deep fence around the coop. A few geese, a donkey, fucking dogs, which every farm should have dogs. Your grandparents are morons

>>5025437
It's not even about them specifically. It's about my dad always listening to them and it pisses me off. They even tried to tell him to trim all the plants on his deck because they're too long. They're stereotypical boomers that want to destroy everything.

>>5025445
Ah, so your dad is caught in a psycho-analytical hell with his perception of his parents. Happens to tue best of us. I go through the same with my dad, but it's hisbown doing, not his parents. Best you can do is sperg out and love him regardless. Just seeing him as a flawed human, as you are too. It can be stressful when animals are involved, but try to just distance yourself from the situation as much as possible

Just shoot the stupid fox. They aren't endangered and they spread ticks.

>>5025453
Thanks
>>5025458
I'm not killing any animals unless it's self defense. They're a part of nature like us

>>5025465
Trespassing in another animal's territory and getting killed for it is also a part of nature.
You have chicken's, just leave some 1080 out and move on with life.

>>5025434 (OP)
I am a poultry keeper.
It's this simple.

I eat my birds. I do basic sheltering at night.
When I process I throw the scraps to an area.
A fox scavenges it.

The idea is "game". I had a fox that was taking 1 or 2 chickens every other day. I ended up hunting it down and killing it and it's kits. I followed it back to its own house and me and my dog took care of it.

The new fox, because a predators space is always going to be refilled, has little game. He sucks at hunting my chickens. He is stupid and fat.

I will continue to feed this one scraps because it has no game and it is better than the alternative. If you have a fox that has no game and isn't hunting your birds you let sleeping dogs lie. Period.
You handle problems.

I had a racoon that was stealing eggs. Fine. I don't care.
Then it killed a chicken. So I sprayed it with a garden hose for 10 minutes and let it go.
It came back and killed again.
Pic related.
Now I have racoons that eat scrap food I throw in the same scavenger area away from my birds.


Your dad is a fucking idiot for asking for a ineffective predator to be replaced in his space.

Game meets game and if your dad kills this fox he will regret it.

Oh, but if your dad keeps them locked up and doesn't free range. A fox will kill every bird in a few minutes and then spend the rest of the time taking bodies back to burry till it's spooked.

I free range specifically for this reason.