Keeping Mr Fox away from chickens

blossomhill_2

Please be aware that foxes are around by day too and certainly take prey in daytime, as some of my rabbit keeping friends have found to their distress

I researched this and found that for any fence to be fox proof it needs a section of sheer metal at the top; foxes scale the 8' wall at the end of my garden with no problem, they just run straight up it

tanith

Foxes can bite through ordinary chicken wire , they did this in broad daylight and killed one of my daughters rabbits she did disturb it before it got more than its head through the gap it had created and saved the rest, but now she can only let them out in the run if she is able to sit out there with them.

Davesnave

As in most things, there's a compromise to be made here, but those of you in towns may be worse off, when you're not always in full control of boundaries and the foxes may be at higher densities than they'd be in the wild.

Here in the sticks, it's so far proved OK to use sheep fence fronted with chicken wire (buried) and topped with unclimbable Tensar netting to a height of 2m. Foxes and badgers are here, but apart from hay making time, there's no cover. Snow gives a chance to see what interest there is, 'out of hours,' and over a couple of winters, there's been none. So, we've left it at that.

If we had a daytime raid, we'd have to look at electric enhancement. Bearing in mind that our birds can fly, it's unlikely that a fox would get more than a few. The one thing I don't want to compromise over is space, because without true free-ranging, there would be little point in going to all the bother & expense.

Del_Astra

gt568 wrote: »

Human hair in bundles of old tights is supposed to be good...tied around your fencing..

Yeah I was about to say that, saw Hugh Fernley Whittingstall do this on River Cottage many moons ago..... I

stumpycat

We've managed to prevent the foxes from munching our chookies so far, but the damn foxes have nicked all my gooseberries & mushrooms instead...