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little or no cost, and find them satisfactory. 
Take care that the stronger, quicker foxes do 
not rob and starve their fellows. 
Reproduction, and treatment of young. 
Foxes breed only once a year, beginning when 
a little less than a year old, but the first litter 
will be small. The mating or rutting season 
includes the months of February and March, 
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ONE FORM OF BREEDING KENNEL. 
A barrel, with a similar elbowed entrance might easily take 
the place of this box. 
and the young are born in April and May. 
The number of young in a litter varies from 
two to eight, the average number born to 
adult parents being five. 
In the wild state foxes are monogamous. 
The male has only one consort, at least only 
one in a season. In confinement, however, one 
