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Fox's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhh
Mary Fisher wrote in message t... Yes our urban fox is a very sweet creature BUT NOT IN MY GARDEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nor mine. We've lost several hens to them. They didn't eat the hens, just killed them. In the daytime. Always. Our lot are now day time cruisers as well , scared ( well thats a bit strong ) annoyed one today which was kipping in one of the flower beds. Its getting to the point where I wait by the back door and chase them off when I see them , but one cant do that all night. They are even getting cheeky enough to just casually walk off now when I shout at them , where as they use to scarper at first. Yes. They also come during the day, or when we're in the garden, and look indignantly at us if we dare to walk towards them. Why me !!!!!!!!!!!! It's not just you. I was begining to think it was only my garden they trashed , neighbours say they see them but never have any trouble!!!!! Any thoughts , is it just my garden they like or do they trash everyones ?????? They didn't trash our garden but they caused a LOT of unhappiness. Our hens are as precious to us as some people's dogs and cats are to them. Any help would be useful but I have tried all the normal stuff. It needs to be "RADICAL" I feel. Renardine does work but you have to apply it very frequently and it becomes expensive. Been there, done that , I think they actually liked it !!!!!!!! Man-made deterrent simply didn't work for us, despite everyone's claim that it does. The most prickly hedging was sneered at, thick fur coats is impervious to hawthorn, berberis, holly, pyracantha and anything else you can name. Believe me, we tried it all. Because we're in the inner city we can't shoot them or call in the hunt. A 'humane' trap would only move the problem somewhere else. Barbed wire along the tops of fencing was disdained. Loose chicken netting along the top of fencing, might work, we never saw a fox scale that. The idea is that even if they jump up to it the netting won't hold their weight so they don't persist. We had to make a high fence (two metres) of chain link supported by a steel framework, which they couldn't scale. But neighbours' wooden fences with 3" wide wooden cappings made it easy for these apparently circus-trained acrobats to walk along and hop over our fence at the corner. The answer was to weld thin upright steel rods, 3" apart, along the top of the steel fence framework. They're about 18" high and to date (fingers crossed) have done the dibs. We haven't had a hen killed in months. In fact the foxes seem to have given up trying, we haven't seen one for ages. The problem is that some neighbours like to see fox in their gardens and encourage them. In some places - not ours - fox are attracted by dustbins because of all the food which is discarded. Not only do we discard food but our bins are fox-proof. But the myth that fox are fluffy wuffy nice ickle animals persist among those who don't suffer from them. Oh how true a word spoke ................. I was talking to a old lady today and she was saying how sweet it was now her garden fox has had three cubs , she feeds them and they almost come in the house. But guess what they never wreck her garden grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Apart from a mechanical deterrent I can't help you - but I sympathise ... Thanks for the support though . Chris Mary Cheers Chris |
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