Hello David,

But I didn't. You were talking about your chicken, remember.

Russians are working on a solution by domesticating silver foxes.
Presumably, after a few hundred generations, silver foxes will no
longer have a taste for fresh chicken and fences will no longer
be necessary to keep the chickens couped up.

What about the feral/non-domesticated silver foxes?

Once domesticated, always domesticated.

This was published in the April 2019 edition of Popular Mechanics
magazine.

It must be true then....

Of course it is.

So please. Do not claim I am making this stuff up.

I saw silver foxes in Patagonia when I visited there. There were rather large animals compared with the red foxes we have in Australia. The Aussie fox is still large enough to take a chook.

The process as to how to domesticate one color of foxes should
also work for other colors of foxes. But I am not Russian, so am
not able to tell you with absolute certainty. Perhaps our Russian
friends in this echo might have some experience in this matter ...

My niece (and her husband) have lost many fowl to foxes -

What color foxes were they? This is important, as only silver
foxes are known to have been domesticated ...

she is about 400km from here so I'm not sure that I have such a fox population.

Most people think Australia has only crocodiles and kangaroos.
Along with dingos. But apparently foxes live everywhere ...

I thought I heard one crying from across the valley one evening but maybe not...

Better make sure to lock your doors at night. Otherwise you
might get invaded by whatever color of foxes inhabitats Oz.

--Lee

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Stop Workin', Start Jerkin'

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On 25/05/2019 10:06, Lee Lofaso -> David Drummond wrote:

What about the feral/non-domesticated silver foxes?

Once domesticated, always domesticated.

So... they've captured and domesticated EVERY silver fox in Russia?
[...]

My niece (and her husband) have lost many fowl to foxes -

What color foxes were they? This is important, as only silver
foxes are known to have been domesticated ...

Red foxes are found in Australia.
[...]

I thought I heard one crying from across the valley one evening but maybe
not...

Better make sure to lock your doors at night. Otherwise you
might get invaded by whatever color of foxes inhabitats Oz.

I don't lock my door at night - foxes don't have the manual dexterity to operate the door knob, and armed thugs looking for my teen aged daughter are few and far between.

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Gang warily
David

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