Off-farm Income

Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter! Email address: SHOW NOTES KEY IDEAS:  There is no question that I am going to become a trapper by necessity.  Foxes have absolutely decimated my chickens on multiple occasions.  We have lost our entire flock before, replaced it and lost several more chickens after that.  We started hatching our chicks as replacements, and after we had 12 chicks hatch another fox came in and killed several of our chickens.  After that, all of our eggs had to go to customers, so we haven't put any in the incubator since.  Then, a fox killed our rooster.  So, now we are waiting on those 12 chicks to start laying and for the rooster that is in that bunch to start fertilizing eggs so we can start incubating more. I have been relying on catching the foxes when they are hunting our chickens and shooting them.  To that end, I have done alright.  I have shot about ten fox in the last two years.  But, there is a fundamental problem with that method, and that is I have to wait until