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Shoot the Fox
Added 21-Jun-2002
Visitors to the Bath & West Show will be invited to join an elite force of vigilantes and come to the defence of the countryside by shooting a fox.
With the curbs on fox hunting, a group of free range hens are fighting back against persecution from foxes thanks to a Somerset egg farmer who's devised a unique computer game for the internet. .
Consumers will be able to do their bit to protect the hens by eliminating as many foxes as possible and the highest score each day will win a state of the art DVD player. .
Shoot the Fox is the brainchild of Tim Wood, who has some 20,000 free range hens on his Black Acre Farm at North Cheriton near Wincanton. .
Black Acre Farm is one of the leading producers of free range eggs in the South and West of England, supplying eggs to 700 independently owned stores. .
'It might be non-PC, but the game is supposed to be a bit of fun and was devised for our web site,' explains Tim. 'But within the first few weeks of it going up we have had more than 6,000 hits on the site and many have already tried playing it.'
Visitors to the Bath and West Show will find 'Shoot the Fox' game on the Black Acre Farm stand in the Chicken and Egg section.
They'll be able to team up with a task force of hens, which go by names such as Rapid Fire Rhonda, Sniper Sylvia and Ninja Nora, to hurl tomatoes at as many foxes as possible. A word of warning, however - don't hit the farmer's wife! .