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Monday 5 December 2011

Fox-watch on chicken coop

SURVEILLANCE cameras have been installed at a property south of Hobart to help determine whether a fox took three chickens from a chicken coop last week.


If the tapes show a fox approaching the coop, it will be the first video recording of the pest since the $3 million a year Fox Eradication Taskforce began in 2002.

Middleton property owner Kim Cawthorn contacted the taskforce when she found a trail of feathers and three bantam chickens missing from the coop.

The family has kept chickens for six years.

"It could be devils, it could be a feral cat, we don't know," said Mrs Cawthorn's husband, Ken.      Read More

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