FOXES IN VICTORIA.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2537, 9 May 1881, Page 2

FOXES IN VICTORIA.

* “ Foxes are at present proving very annoying in the Little River district (Victoria). A few of the selectors there skilled in the art of turkey farming rear large numbers of these birds for the market. From time to time an occasional bird mysteriously disappears, but nothing ever approached the wholesale and alarming destruction experienced during the past week. One selector on Thursday morning last,” says the “ Geelong Advertiser, “found himself minus about twenty of, his turkeys. Not far from his dwelling, however, were discovered the remains of fourteen of them, all splendid male birds, the small incisions in their necks and the blood sucked revealing the perpetrators of the deed. Another party complains also of having lost upwards of thirty birds within the week by the foxes. Similar complaints are rife at the plains near Werriboe, where the foxes are said to be very bold. These destructive raids are attributed by many to the recent extermination of rabbits on the Chirnside estate and at Little River, the lack of rabbits compelling reynard to seek for prey elsewhere,”