Landholders are used to keeping predators away from chickens, but one landholder is using his feathered friends to win the fight against foxes. Brunswick landholder Mike Jack has caught four foxes in just a few months—without bait, carcasses, or his chooks going off the lay—thanks to the clever integration of a fox trap into his chicken coop. The trap, positioned directly beneath where the chickens roost, exploits foxes' natural behaviour. “They sneak around the pen and lo and behold—there’s a nice hole in the side. They can’t help themselves,” said Mike. Mike built the chicken coop himself, making it fox-proof—impossible to dig under or break into—and fitted it with an automatic door so the chooks put themselves to bed each night. He further customised the coop to suit the trap by cutting a hole in the hen house just big enough for it and placed the bulk of the trap inside the house, with the mouth of the trap jutting out from the wall. He also added star picke...