Repelling Foxes

[MrSki]

The various deterrents you can buy do work, but if you've got a big supply of fox food in your garden - and lots of other foxes nearby to provide competition for easier meals - then not much, apart from a reasonably assertive dog, is going to keep the foxes away.

If you can, harden your garden's perimeters - chicken wire on all the fences, close up any gaps - and lace it all with deterrents - then you need to secure the pens the animals live in. Chicken wire is fine, but both foxes and badgers dig, and dig well, so it needs to go under the pens as well.

We have neither foxes nor badgers because of having dogs, but if we go away for more than a week the foxes start nosing around the other livestock.

All very well but they are a shitter for hedgehogs on the pull. It is recommended to leave a few gaps in the bottem of fencing so that hedgehogs can go a shagging.

 

[kebabking]

All very well but they are a shitter for hedgehogs on the pull. It is recommended to leave a few gaps in the bottem of fencing so that hedgehogs can go a shagging.

Yeah, that's the problem though isn't it? - if you leave gaps for stuff to get out, you're leaving gaps for stuff to get in...

Predators will be drawn to prey, and if they are really up against it then some garlic or Lion shit isn't going to keep them out indefinitely.

 

[MrSki]

Hedgehogs need to roam. Traditionally then roamed through hedges & found another hog. Now days they can't meet a mate & hence the lack of them. And people putting down slug pellets that eating poisoned slugs can do the hedgehog too.

 

[existentialist]

It's like catnip for badgers, though.

Is that true, or is it just extremely funny?

 

[Athos]

Is that true, or is it just extremely funny?

It's not true; I made it up. Would be good if it was, though!

 

[Nigel]

You can get fox repellent in most garden centres. Basically a peppery powder that foxes don't like.

Thanks Mr. Sky
Are there any that you specifically recommend ?

 

[MrSki]

Thanks Mr. Sky
Are there any that you specifically recommend ?

I have not used them myself but would recommend one with a picture of a fox on the packet.

 

[Nigel]

The various deterrents you can buy do work, but if you've got a big supply of fox food in your garden - and lots of other foxes nearby to provide competition for easier meals - then not much, apart from a reasonably assertive dog, is going to keep the foxes away.

If you can, harden your garden's perimeters - chicken wire on all the fences, close up any gaps - and lace it all with deterrents - then you need to secure the pens the animals live in. Chicken wire is fine, but both foxes and badgers dig, and dig well, so it needs to go under the pens as well.

We have neither foxes nor badgers because of having dogs, but if we go away for more than a week the foxes start nosing around the other livestock.

Thanks for your advice kebabking, we are seriously thinking about getting a dog, good advice with Chicken wire; make sure it is dug int the ground and something is used as flooring, even if only around the edges !

 

[Nigel]

Hedgehogs need to roam. Traditionally then roamed through hedges & found another hog. Now days they can't meet a mate & hence the lack of them. And people putting down slug pellets that eating poisoned slugs can do the hedgehog too.

Our plan was to re-introduce it back into the wild gradually expanding on chicken wire fences !

 

[MrSki]

You can also get movement sensor repellants. They let out a high pitched frequency that is undetectable to humans but scare off cats,dogs & foxes. Probably work on badgers too.

Not sure about moles though.

 

[existentialist]

I have not used them myself but would recommend one with a picture of a fox on the packet.

Personally, I'd prefer one with a picture of where a fox used to be on the packet

 

[existentialist]

You can also get movement sensor repellants. They let out a high pitched frequency that is undetectable to humans but scare off cats,dogs & foxes. Probably work on badgers too.

Not sure about moles though.

I think movement sensitive repellents would be more effective than moles.

 

[MrSki]

I think movement sensitive repellents would be more effective than moles.

I Seem to remember that Moles, toads & badgers get on well but not sure about foxes.

 

[andysays]

I Seem to remember that Moles, toads & badgers get on well but not sure about foxes.

Rats as well, apparently

 

[Nigel]

Ranness the tortoise has been found and returned to the bosom of her family !
No foxes have been assassinated & sonic alarms and lion excrement have been ordered !