@zanadoo_56 wrote:
There's no shortage of foxes in Melbourne and environs, that's for sure.
I've seen them on St Kilda Rd in Sth Melbourne, near Brighton and just past Frankston in Somerville. Also near Hastings.
Vic must be full of them more than ever as they are so bold and easy to see.
I,m in the hills near Adelaide and when I moved to the area foxes where in plague proportions. Most of the farmers here have cattle, and most of my neighbours are hobby farmers so no one had done anything about controlling the foxes for years. The first season of lambing I lost nearly 50% of my lambs to foxes.
I began a concerted twelve month control programme on a number of properties within a 5 km. radius and accounted for over 400 in the first year. That is a LOT of foxes. Fox numbers crashed after that and now it is just a maintenance program. I have a proffesional shooter who visits the properties monthly and whistles the foxes to him. Last year he shot 34 foxes on my 100 acre property and similar numbers on the other properties I lease close by. All up around 150 foxes over a 5 km. area. That is still a few, but at least they leave the lambs alone now, as there is probably plenty of other food sources for them, such as the hobby farmers rubbish bins and chooks.
The neighbours are pleased that some-one has done something to control them as they where causing a lot of problems for the hobby farmers, but they did not have the means to control them.
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