/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Oh man, those cupcakes look really good. How do you make them, OP?

it would be so thoroughly awesome to get a big fucking rifle with a silencer and night vision scope, camp on your roof and snipe those fox bitches one by one

and im not even /k/ at all, never even shot a real gun

>>86728
Get yourself a rifle, shoot the foxes. Then display their severed heads on poles as a warning for other foxes.

>>86728
How did the foxes get in?

Design a new coop. Possibly elevated, reinforced.

>>86728
I considered it, But getting ahold of an air rifle isnt a garunte that i wont wake up and half of them will be dead, Im going to set up traps. Im sitting in the kitchen researching them. AGAIN i just had to run out and get one OUT OF THE FUCKING RUN.

>>86735
This.

Foxes are foxes, and your pen design is shit-tier to let them in all the time like this.

>>86738
My pen design has worked for years, I have foxes in my garden alot. They have learned to climb the fence and get through the netting on the top

>>86740
make the top jut out at a 45 degree angle, like military installation fences, needs to be longer than the body of the coyote. surely they cant climb almost upside-down. n toss the chicken bodies out to were they can get to them, that should get rid of them for the rest of the night... honestly, I might would even poison the chicken bodies with something, too

>>86741
No. Tonight they starve.

Why did they only pull of the heads and not eat them?

>>86741
And yes i will do something like that with the fence.

>>86746
probably because you interrupted them, they likely kill first then feast.

Feed them some of the bodies and it will draw them well away. It may anger you but it could be the best to save your chickens.

Why in heaven's name don't you have a dog to fend off these fuckers?

Seriously, farming 101 here.

>>86754
I do, but he lives indoors. We used to have a female. And her piss hept them at bay.
>>86749
No. I will take pleasure in being the reason they starve.

Stand guard for the rest of the night. Show them who's the dominant species.

>>86757

tell dog to kill foxes.

Landmines. Need I say more?

>>86758
Thats what im doing, Im using the duck and noise as a warning sign. I put up a bright fog light thing to iluminate the garden. When i see the i run out and scare them off by any means. Now im going to get violent and start throwing bricks at them.

make a mother fucking moat. or dig a trench, put some sharpened bamboo in it, and cover with leaves. vietcong like a boss

You will get even more pleasure if you hunt one and torture it.I don't know anything about foxes or farming, but if you manage to harm their legs, run to them with a knife and skin them alive.

With that vengance, your fallen heroic chickens will be honoured.

I had a skunk feasting on my flock, so I bought 2 geese. I walked out 3 days later to see a wounded skunk spraying everywhere attempting to flee from one of the geese.

>>86736

>killing foxes
>air rifle

...ummmm....

you may want to get something a little bigger

Most people are smart enough to lock their chicken coops.

The duck had been bitten in the neck. You could see its windpipe. It was walking around silently. We had to snap its neck. Im trapping a fox and crushing its skull under my shoe.

>>86736
Why in the fuck would you get an air rifle? Go get a goddamn Mini-15 varmint rifle.

>>86796
Im a britfag

>>86795
you must be awful at tower defense

>>86795
Im going too.
Is what i ment to say

there is a simple solution to your problem op
for a permanent solution, build a less shitty coop

>>86797
i'm sorry you live in a country where nobody is allowed to protect their livestock.

maybe mail the chicken heads to your shit government.

Imagine the fox has the voice of George Clooney. Oh, do behave Mr Fox!

>>86797
Apply for your FAC and get a suitable shotgun or rifle.

>>86728
Since you're a noguns britfag, id probably reccomend trapping them with a snares or dead falls(use the dead chickens as bait) and dispatching them with a pointy stick or whatever you have on hand(sledge hammer, axe, w/e so long as it has reach). Otoh, you could also buy/make a bow, bait them in, and shoot them.

You should post this in /an/ and see what they have to say also. Especially for your distressed chickens.

>>86806
I wonder if he should bring a sack full of his headless chickens to prove to the police that he needs a boomstick.

Here's the plan.

1) build a trap. Makesure it allowsthe catching of a live fox. Use imagination, a box with a stick will do fine though.
2) Crucify said fox.
3) put crucified fox near the woods/place the other foxes come from.

WARN THEM OF IMPENDING DOOM.

Decided I'm gonna sell my chickens to kfc and breed foxes

A .22 flathead pellet will kill a fox.

Very, very painfully.

You want to stop Foxs?

Build an electric fence around your chicken coup, only turn it on at night! Don't think you can catch Foxes so easily, even dogs really struggle with a smart fox!

Well the main problem is, Cats. I cant use traps or ill probibly snare a cat. As for guns. Im not old enough to have a rifle.

Have gun?
>shoot it
Not have gun?
>Archery
No Archery?
>Shovel

I've trapped a few before.

>Chicken in deep hole
>plank going down to said hole
>Small explosive charge in middle of plank
>Small sound-sensitive activator connected in
>Chicken makes noise
>Bomb blows, fox trapped in hole.

Just leave the fox there till it expires. Shouldn't be more than a couple of days in hot weather.

>>86740
>climb the fence and get through the netting on the top
wtf r u doin

>rub yourself down with chicken carcass
>cover self in leaves
>hide out next to coop next to chicken carcasses with knife
>fox comes by
>shank that bitch

I really do feel sorry for you though, being as you live in Britain and can't defend your livestock.

As for the traps, whose cats would you be accidentally trapping? If they're your own, keep them inside until the problem's solved. If they're not yours...well, that'll teach them not to trespass.

Just here to point out that there's been plenty of humane anti-predator suggestion here.

You've no excuse, OP, don't let these dirty hicks turn you!

>>86732
>and im not even /k/ at all, never even shot a real gun

I can tell.

spread your scent around like piss etc. around the coop or design a coop like in river cottage

Get a coop that doesn't suck dick. Problem solved.

we had a similar problem but with coyotes. Make a better coop. Concertina/razor wire works very effectively against predators. We eventually made a feeder trough on the edge of our property which we tossed food scraps into once in while, which in turn lured coyotes and then we'd sit in a tree stand and pick them off with 30/30's. Though I dont think they allow that of stuff in England.
OPTION: Wrist rocket slingshots. The pro models shoot very accurately and have sights mounted on the front. OR a nice modern hunting crossbow. Works just as effectively as a gun. We once got a double coyote kill with one. Straight through one coyote into another coyote which we then had to track down and shoot again only because we wanted the original arrow/head back.

>>87100
>>86881
these and dog.

if your dog isn't even barking when something odd is outside, your dog sucks. if you have a farm dog that doesn't contribute to guarding the farm, it's not doing its job.

Slaughter everything but the duck, and drop the $2.50 for a new set of birds. These ones are scarred and are likely to get aggressive. The duck seems cool, though.

Get a guard animal. Alpaca, cow, dog, whatever. Just bond them with the chickens and leave them alone.

Once upon a time an uncle on the missuses side had a chicken coop that kept getting broken into; foxes, coyotes and even the neighbor's dogs (who weren't afraid of the dogs he chained up near the coop)

So for his birthday while he was gone for a week we made him a really nice one. It had a cap block foundation wall and pt 2x4 with not only wire but this heavy guage stainless steel mesh (a neighbor had had it in his shed for a number of years; if we would have had to buy it it would have cost a fortune if you could even find it anywhere.) All the fasteners and strong ties we used were stainless too. We made the roof out of that heavy-guage corrugated aluminum and also added flaps to the sides and a layer of foamboard insulation to the top so he could close it up easily in winter. We ran a light and an outlet to the thing and also ran a water line with sprinkler pipe that ended in a self-refilling water trough (made with the insides of a toilet tank) He never had a problem with anything getting in after that and his chickens were always in perfect health.

At least until next spring when a tornado touched down for a couple of seconds and hit a tree, some fencing, and completely demolished the chicken coop.

OKLAHOMA.

SHOTGUN MOTHER FUCKER DO YOU SHOOT IT

>>87019
Im going to borrow my friends crossbow. Im going to shoot it in the legs, while its imobilised im going to smash its skull in with a hammer. Ill skin it (make gloves) maybe use the meat for something but leave the scent of blood. Noone fucks with my chickens.

>>87689

Failtroll is fail, OP is too much of a faggot to fire a crossbow.

Build a god damn electric fence and turn it on at night. One or 2 kicks from a high power fence will keep them at bay. Oh, and do the chicken with the chicken wire OVER the coup too. That shit is common sense.

>>87689

>crossbow foxes
>shoot it in the legs

Yeah, you go ahead and do that.