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[ladyjulian]

The recent news about the fox attack on two children has inspired a writer at the Telegraph to produce this article calling for the reintroduction of fox hunting from the perspective of an urban chicken keeper. (It's tongue in cheek.)

 

I particularly loved this paragraph:

 

Well my poultry-fancying urban friends, let me tell you the bad news should you come home from the garden centre with pair of roosters clucking away in the boot: a world of pain, not to mention unforeseeable poultry-related expenditure, awaits you. For while the act of gathering an egg is indeed a delightfully simple procedure, and the chickens will doubtless go very nicely with the raised herb beds and the ornamental bee hive, ensuring that there is actually an egg available to gather in your wicker basket of a dewy morn is a lifetime's work.

 

If you come back with a pair of roosters, egg availability will most certainly be a problem. Maybe that's where the author's going wrong.

[C&T]

An interesting article - a call to bring back fox hunting!

[ubereglu]

I suppose it's worth a try!

[Kirstine]

Let's hope the rooster thing was down to an over-enthusiastic subeditor with a thesaurus! If you were an urban chicken-keeper with 2 roosters, both the egg supply (or lack of) and fox population would be near the bottom of your list of problems.

[patsylabrador]

I get irritated by people who assume that because you live in an urban environment that you're somehow too thick to appreciate what rural life involves. I understand about farming, foxes and nature. I can read books and newspapers and I am interested in life outside a city. I have a relative who's a farmer and he talks down to me and thinks I have no concept of life outside the M25.

Why shouldn't people who live in cities have chickens and bees without being mocked. Which I should add I have never been aware of on this forum.

[rachael_farnsworth]

Yes indeed - this is the urban-est I've ever lived, to be honest! I grew up with a small farm 15 minutes' walk away and once you get out of the towns, Cheshire is farming farming farming.

 

I am very conflicted on foxes. On one hand, they're nasty horrible things who merrily ruin farmers' stocks - but so are cats, and I've got one of those. And my cat can't help hunting; it's hard-wired into her. Neither can a fox. And it's not the fox's fault that I want to keep chickens. Hmm...